Notes

Key Characteristics

Usually a creeping or climbing vine, but may be an erect shrub; climbing tree trunks, attaching to the bark by tiny aerial rootlets, and branching toward 1 m.
Bark gray
Leaves alternate, pinnately compound, 2 leaflets, 15-30 cm long; leaflets 5-12 cm long; terminal leaflet longer-stalked than laterals; ovate to rhombic, short-acuminate; entire or sparingly or coarsely dentate or sinuate; usually more or less wrinkled; glabrous, lustrous yellowish green above, more or less pubescent beneath; not aromatic; petioles 5-10 cm long.
Twigs slender, yellowish brown, sparingly pubescent or glabrate.
Winter buds naked, light brown, scurfy-pubescent; terminal buds erect, fingerlike; lateral buds much smaller, appressed.

Sourced from "Michigan Shrubs"