Poison Oak - Basic Identification
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- čas přidán 23. 05. 2017
- There is a ton of Poison Oak where I hike and spend time in nature. Today, while out hiking I came across some and decided to do a quick video. Poison Oak causes severe rashes for people who are allergic to it. Some people even have breathing issues if they come in contact with Poison Oak.
Once you get the hang of it, identifying Poison Oak is actually quite easy. Just remember, the leaves are Oak like in appearance and they come in clusters of 3. The plant can grow like a ground cover, vine, or shrub. Leaves will change color in the fall as well.
Early on, I taught my kids how to identify Poison Oak and I recommend that you do the same, especially if they spend much time out in nature, in areas where Poison Oak is present.
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When my mom was young she went hiking on the coast and found a family from the east coast. They had Poison oak in their fire, had padded their bedding with it and were using sticks from poison oak to cook the dinner they were halfway through eating. Luckily they got to the hospital and were okay but it could have been really bad had they not. Good thing to point out for people.
Yikes! That is crazy. Breathing in the smoke from Poison Oak can be really dangerous as well.
Thanks for watching!
Great video the best one I have seen yet I love the side-by-side pictures of how it can and can’t grow. I would love to see more on sumac and Ivy
Glad it was helpful... Luckily not too much poison ivy or sumac around me or I'd do a vid on that as well.
You just helped me identify some Poison Oak that's suddenly growing rampant on my local trail! thanks Chris 👍
Glad it helped!
Very helpful video. I haven't came across any poison oak in my area. We have poison ivy everywhere. Your video is much better than an illustration in a book. I'm trying to show my kids what to watch out for and your video was perfect. Thanks!
Awesome, glad the video helped!
“Ruin your day”? More like Ruin your next 2-3 weeks! 🌿😫☣️
Good point!
Yep just had to get 12 days of prednisone and take 2 Zurtac for a week. Only on day 2😢😢😢😢
Raggedy Ann Don’t know about all those drugs, but try applying calamine lotion, Vitamin E, rosemary/eucalyptus/oregano oils and Aloe. Really helped mine clear up quickly once I started putting that concoction on the affected area. Hope it clears up for you soon! 🤙🏼
I’ve had the meth itch for the last two weeks.
More like ruin your 2 weeks.
Great video! Poison Oak and Poison Ivy are a little different looking, but both are identified by the "leaves of three". They both cause the same nasty rash which is an allergic reaction to urushiol oil that occurs naturally on these plants. Where you are in the country will determine which one you run into (we are lucky enough to have both in the southeast). The one I have a harder time identifying is Poison Sumac which looks completely different but produces the same urushiol oil and causes the same damn rash.
Yeah the sumac has a compound leaf as well, but I think 5-7 leaflets from what I recall. I try to be aware of which trails have it thick because even in the winter the Poison Oak twigs still have some of the oil on them and if you handle the twigs you can get a reaction. Thanks for watching!
Yes and they say they have no oak in pa! It’s so not true. I’ve grown up with oak around my entire life and ivy both. As kids there was more oak in our yard the ivy at one point. Recently I started taking photos to prove it. I even went so far to touch it for myself to prove the rash feels and looks different as well. They are so similar but their leaves are the ways to tell them apart. I can’t show my oak photos on here but oaks edges are slightly different from ivys especially the bottom leaf
I know when I get ivy and for me it’s a pain and the butt cuz it’s soo but itchy and it spread everywhere but after all these three plants are just allergies and everyone reacts differently to each one but I have gotten all three all my life and ivy gets me the worst and I know it when I get it. I also know oak, oak is short lived rash for me and so is sumac
Another great vid Chris! Here in the Upper Midwest we have P Ivy, Oak & Sumac. I'm highly sensitized to the Ivy - to the point I have a standing order for Prednisone Rx with the primary care. It's that awful - for like 30 days without treatment. Anyway, the similarities between the Ivy & Oak are interesting: leaves of 3; the red leaf coloration - esp with Ivy come fall when the nites cool down; plus the Ivy leaves develop sort of a blistering. But like others have said, avoidance is best, for those sensitized to the Urushiol, very unpleasant.
Man that sucks... yes avoidance is best but sometimes you just look up and it's all around you. Thanks for watching!
I know the craziest thing is articles online say we have no poison oak in pa ! However I’ve grown up with poison oak and ivy my entire life. I even have pictures to prove we have poison oak in pa! People confuse it for ivy all the time but I recently went on a scavenger hunt to prove that we have poison oak. Sure enough I found a spot with a lot of it and took lots of pictures when someone said poision oak doesn’t exist and I said what’s this! Hahaha
Great video! A lot of my friends struggle with this!
Thanks for watching buddy, glad it was helpful!
On the East Coast, we have another species of poison oak. I once saw a hybrid of Atlantic Poison Oak with Eastern Poison Ivy
Weeee have Poison Oak In PA!!!!! Articles stop saying we don’t, I took so many pictures of it . I know the difference between ivy and oak and I even made my own comparison side by side between the two as I went on a poison oak vs ivy hunt to prove to someone I know that oak exist! I found many many many oak plants
Thank you
Thanks for the tips man!!!
Thanks for watching!
Nicely done ~
Thank you!
thank you!
Thank you for the tips. In addition to the leaves of 3 and oak like leaf is a poison oak leaf also asymmetrical
Like poison ivy?
Not noticeably but slightly.
Thank you very helpful
Glad it helped, thank you for watching!
I've got poison ivy growing in my yard. we'll be pulling it out soon though - i got a couple paint suits with gloves and hoods, plus safety glasses and dust masks for us to wear to hopefully avoid rash (or death!). it's gonna be a pain in the butt to get it all out, not looking forward to it at all. lol! i'm not sure I've ever seen poison oak in the wild before, so thanks for sharing! :)
you can rent goats and they'll eat it all instead of having to get your hands in it.
Goats do work great at clearing Ivy, and then spray any sprouts with an herbicide like Garlon (works great on woody shrubs and vines if you can get some).
Like Lootitsben said, you should totally look into getting some goats to knock back the ivy. They will chomp that stuff down. Thanks for watching Mary!
Goats love poison oak.
I like to hike with my doggo. Her belly hair is very thin. Can the poison oak hurt her if she gets it on her belly and/or nose from sniffing or climbing around in it? Thank you.
Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
😢I am from Central America, been living in the US for a while...had heard of the plant but never really knew how it looked like. Now I know why I get a rash EVERY SPRING!! 😢 There is a lot on my back yard. So when I do spring cleaning I come in contact and I get a rash. No wonder why is always around the same time i I get it every year!!
..and I've been blaming the Sun and animals from the farm next door😫
Dang! Yeah that would explain. I hope you are able to get rid of it in your yard and hopefully you won't have to worry about it again.
Same here. Every spring I clear the over growth from the woods moving into our back yard and I get the rash.
Leaves of three, let them be. I have a pretty bad case. Didn’t touch poison oak, but my dog did ! For several days I went nearly bonkers trying to figure out what was biting me. Finally went to doctor who quickly recognized the blisters on my arms and neck. She asked about my dog and how I held her. My dog had the oil on her coat which spread to me when I cuddled her. Terrible pain and itching. Very little sleep and hard.
Shaky Cam!
Poison oak ruined my Northern California childhood summers. I got it, and got it bad. I looked like something out of a horror film. Even when I could avoid it, my less sensitive siblings and our pets would bring it back with them and spread the invisible oil everywhere. What was I gonna do, live in a bubble? The stuff is EVERYWHERE for hundreds of miles up and down the coast, on every trail, and from ocean to the hills.
THAT is why I as an adult I do my hiking at 5000 ft. and above. I hate poison oak.
good info
Thank you!
Willamette Valley Cascade Mountain range, living on acreage along the Santiam Riverfront. Within the last 5 years the poison plant has taken over, it is virtually in every square yard of foliage, camo'd, choking out trees etc. How to eliminate large areas of this?
Goats will eat that stuff to the ground, and pretty much everything else they can reach.
I think I ran into some poison oak a couple days ago and I now have a rash. Well, really several rashes
Ouch, that's never fun.
My grand father had a friend that burned a pile of poison oak and the vapers filled his lungs and he did die from it.
Yeah the vapor getting into your lungs is a real bad deal.
I have a question. Does poison oak usually have yellow bubbles in the rash? I recently went camping, and I think I might have ran into some poison oak, because I saw those leaves that look like they had a red on the top. They were all around the campsite. And now I have rashes and they have yellow bubbles. The reason why I know this is probably poison oak, is because all of the symptoms you were talking about in this video are true to me, and because I slept in a shelter for one night. We had to make the shelters out of resources around. Not fun.
Sounds like that's probably what you got. It doesn't always have yellow bubbles but when it blisters up that is what it can look like. Sorry you got it!!!
Out West with Chris Thanks for the advice! Sucks to see I do....
Both ivy and oak grow the same almost. They both can be a vine, shrub or singular form
They all attach to a vine but grow differently depending on the place they are going on
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Is this on the West Coast or East Coast?
It’s crazy cuz we grew up as kids with poison oak and ivy in our yard our entire life! Now that I’m an adult they say there is no poison oak in pa. Very not true, and I even took pictures of the poison oak in my back yard. I get a rash from it. Poison oak rash is different then poison ivy and being that they are related very much the same plant in almost every way. The leaves are the main ways to tell them apart. So I get so frustrated when people are like oak does not grow around here and I am like yes it does. It’s always grown out here! People just confuse it for ivy! Oak has a more rounded curved rough edges as poison ivy has a pointier leaf that is fuzzer sharper shaped edges. The biggest identifiers between the two is ivy has a longer bottom stem then oak and also has a fuzzy looking edges on the bottom leaf that are iconic for all ivy’s. Oak on the other hand is closer together in the bottom leaf and the bottom is rounded angular more rounded bottom rather then a sharp hairy looking point. No we are not talking about blackberry bushes who have similar leaves to baby ivy! We have oak in pa and I took so many pictures yesterday! I even have a rash to prove it. I touched all the oak to prove that it was oak and not ivy. Ivy rashes are always shiny oozy tickly super super super crazy squeeezy itchy with tiny tiny bumps that spread everywhere. Oak starts off more like mosquito bites and it’s more of a hot or burning itch as it spreads . Sumac is more of large welt rashes that are dry, hot scaley with a flat bumpy surface that almost feels like ringworm at first . There is definitely poison oak in pa and it has been long known. Articles say we don’t but I doubt those writing the articles are here in this state seeing them.
Chris, online theres conflicting information about poison ivy and oak. Some sites say it grows in California others say only poison oak in California and no ivy. Can you clarify
If there is Poison Ivy in California it would be a shock to me. I'm pretty that is a mostly East Coast thing.
@@Outwestwithchris1 online it says it grows everywhere in the states except Hawaii and Alaska
I guess it could be out here but I've never seen any and have never heard of anyone running into any in CA.
The poison ivy, and oak on my property is thankfully not vine or shrub like, it’s Just a ground cover and easy to ID.
However, I understand that there are over 300 different types of poison ivy.
I have a bunch of poispoison ivy in my backyard
Thats not fun!
thank you. Just got poison ivy, first time in 20 yrs . Same area. same bush. For some reason, got it this year. thanks for this, so i dont get oak, as my oak tree has a vine going up it, googled images, and its poison ivy going up the oak! oye vaye ! but, now i know: its real!
What's the difference between that and poison ivy?
They are just different species of a group of related plants; they all are very close relatives in the Cashew Family (Anacardiaceae). All Poison-Oak, Poison-Ivy, and Poison-Sumac are plants in the genus Toxicodendron. In the West, there is by far most commonly Western Poison-Oak (Toxicodendron diversilobum) and in some areas of the interior west Western Poison-Ivy (T. rydberghii). Then out east, we have Poison-Ivy (T. radicans) and Eastern Poison -Oak (T. pubescens) (with some hairiness on the leaves). These 4 species have the 3-leaflets (leaflets of 3, let them be!) and so are very similar looking, and may be hard to tell apart wherever they live together, so if you see 3 leaflets, don't touch!! I have lived in both California and New Jersey and have seen T. diversilobum a lot in California, and I have seen T. radicans many, many times in Jersey! In the east, there is the large shrub/small tree- Poison-Sumac (T. vernix) has many more than 3 leaflets, but the same urushiol oil that can cause an allergic reaction. Coming across Poison-Sumac may be harder as it prefers less accessible places like marshes and swamps, but it is still good to identify it!
The left to right growing pattern was a good tip.
Regardless, dude, find a new train. You’re screwed if you fall or trip lmao
Hahah, good point!
CA guy here, my buddy got a dry PO leaf in his pocket on a long hike (prob happened when sitting) after a while the leaf had crumbled into a powder and went through the pocket netting in his pants. His thigh/junk got WRECKED X-D haha good times.
Leaves of three, let it be. Yep, poison ivy, too. We have both here! And poisonwood, and manchineel...
I wish I saw your video before ruin my day with those.
it will never have thorns?
Nope, sometimes Blackberry vines look a little similar to Poison Oak but Poison Oak has no thorns. Thanks for watching!
Poison oak and ivy puts me in th hospital every time.
We have that out here!! People just confuse it with ivy
It does not ruin the day that you come in contact. It ruins some of the following days.
Closed Captions would be nice please and thank you
every acorn tree(oak tree) is as huge as willow trees, but why does a posion oak look a vine? i think they made a mistake naming poison oak vines when they are NOT oak at all, even though poison oak's leaves kind of look like oak tree's leaves but poison ones are much rounder enough not to look like oak tree's leaves.
i liked the video
"If you run through this stuff it's going to ruin your day" haha sooo true
Yeah no doubt! Thanks for watching!
More like "Ruin your next few weeks".
"There is alot of poison oak where I hike"
So basically you live in the.......Danger Zone?😎
i had it once in my life yrs ago.. turns your skin into raw meat looking micro red blisters which weep huge amount of fluid. took weeks to dissapate.
Omg
Why do people ask you "what's going on" when you cannot possibly answer?
OK man
Cool quik vid. Luckily I'm not affected by it. However it isn't fun stuff.
You are immune from it? Didn't know that. Thanks for watching buddy!
Ya, ask the old man about the scouting trip I went on and laid in a huge shrub of it hiding during paintball wars. Man he was all jacked up from it and he only helped unpack my cloths and gear. Wasn't even there. I didn't even know I was in it, no rash, itch or anything. Lol thank goodness.
You are so lucky. Can you imagine the rash you would have had? Dang!
My dad and I just learned what poison oak looks like the hard way 💀
love these identification videos!
I guess the saying
leaves of 3 ...let it be
2 yrs ago...i was clearing weeds in shorts and tank (no gloves)
My property was covered in poison IVY OAK and SUMAC
thankfully...i am not allergic and now I warn everyone! hahaa
You are one of the lucky ones who is immune to it, wow, that is cool! Glad you enjoyed the video!
Out West with Chris I didn't find out until later what all the brush was I had been removing...lucky for me hahaha
I know it all too well. Wish i could eradicate it
Beer, Bourbon and Bushcraft yeah buddy, hard to get rid of that stuff!
Just did it. Lol
Nasty stuff, I've had my share of bad encounters.
Adventure Outdoors I've actually never gotten a reaction . now devils club and stinging nettles, that's a different story!
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Haha. You didn't need to bring that up, lol. But I am kinda glad you did!
Now see, that looks like poison ivy to me.
chew up one leaf a couple times a year. For years I never get anymore.
almost touched some
but not quite! lol, thanks for watching!
Good vid but I'm not going to lie. The dubstep nature video combo kind of killed it for me. it's just too out of place.
My day is ruined. Well the next several weeks are ruined anyway.
Thank you