Can anyone help me to identify this beast of a plant in my yard?

[amcgath04]

I live in MN. This vine has taken over my raspberry patch, climbed higher than my house and covered my fence. I see it throughout my neighborhood.

 

[Carol S]

Looks like a grape vine leaf. It is great tortoise food. My tortoises love grapes leaves.

 

[wellington]

I was thinking the same thing, grape leaf. If it is, lucky you. Great tort food, the leaf, not the grapes. To be sure, wait for a month or so and see if you get tiny grapes growing on it.

 

[RosemaryDW]

Another vote for grapes.

Did you have this same plant growing last year? I asked because it looks large to have grown in only one season, at least in my (fairly dry) climate. Grapes die back to the vine in the winter so it could have been there before, just smaller.

 

[Yvonne G]

It's probably a wild grapevine.

 

[Maro2Bear]

I'm thinking that this might not be a grape vine. That first pix really doesnt look like a true grape. Any sign of fruit? Our grape vines here in Md are full of young fruit. Seems to also be growing way too rapidly for a grapevine.

 

[Jodie]

It looks like grape to me. My grape vine used to get very few grapes. Now that I am constantly cutting leaves it gets way more.

 

[Yvonne G]

I'm thinking that this might not be a grape vine. That first pix really doesnt look like a true grape. Any sign of fruit? Our grape vines here in Md are full of young fruit. Seems to also be growing way too rapidly for a grapevine.

the wild grape plants look slightly different than the ones we cultivate for fruit.

 

[Pearly]

I recently saw Boston Ivy at one nursery that the leaf looked very similar. My guess would be either that or grape

 

[RosemaryDW]

the wild grape plants look slightly different than the ones we cultivate for fruit.

Yes, our wild grape has a distinct appearance from our neighbor's domestic plant.

Some raspberry canes are sticking up through the grape in that picture as well; their leaves confused me a bit when I first looked.

 

[Maro2Bear]

the wild grape plants look slightly different than the ones we cultivate for fruit.

Totally agree. I have a ton of the wild stuff too. Just that the pix of that first leaf has me wondering. Also, the leaf is really large compared to average domestic or wild grapes.

 

[Iochroma]

grape.

 

[amcgath04]

Thanks for all your help. It is a very old wild grape vine growing all over the neighborhood. I gave a couple leaves to my Sulcata and he loved them

 

[Cheryl Hills]

I have wild grape and the leaves get huge on it. My torts love it. These look just like mine.