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Very common and widespread throughout the UK. Habitat includes: Woodland, hedgerows, walls, old buildings, rock faces, fences-gardens, parks, allotments, cemeteries, wasteland. ther names include: English ivy, European Ivy, Ivy. Confusion species: Atlantic Ivy/Irish Ivy Hedera hibernica. 30 metres, though often less. Leaves deep shiny green and leathery, often with paler veins, those of immature plant often 3 to 5 lobed, those of mature flowering branches are heart shaped or elliptical and all untoothed. Flowers yellowish-green with yellow anthers, 7 to 9 mm, borne in small, rather dense umbels, petals eventually reflexed. Fruit globose, 6 to 8 mm dull black when ripe in bunches. Flowers September-November. Evergreen. There are two subspecies of Ivy native to the UK.