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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]we have some climbing vines, but I thought they were chokeweed? It grows really quickly. We also have ground cover that has little purple flowers. It's pretty. I don;t think this counts, right? A lot of us arent experts in gardening and just inherited these things![/quote]
That sounds like creeping charlie, not ivy. English ivy you’d recognized the leaves of if you had it. Creeping charlie is hated by people who want a monoculture lawn, but it’s edible (it’s in the mint family!) and bees love it when it blooms. 
Here’s ivy:
[img]https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/green-ivy-covering-1024x768.jpg[/img][/quote]

Creeping Charlie is invasive and also terrible- it also harbors mosquitoes and rodents (especially when allowed to grow too tall) and has a poor root system so if it’s a large part of your lawn (which often happens because it tends to take over) then your soil is susceptible to erosion, especially when it dies back for the winter.[/quote]
It’s invasive alright and I sure wouldn’t plant it (my lawn is already colonized; it’s just going to be there now) but I haven’t seen any evidence that it harbors mosquitos or rodents and creeping charlie gets mowed with people’s lawns; people don’t mow English Ivy because it’s so hard on the blades. Both are invasive, one is not nearly as bad as the other. [/quote]

Depends.  When we bought our house our "lawn" was pretty much monoculture creeping charlie, so I don't need to see "evidence", I've BTDT.  It was terrible and aggravated DH's allergies in particular.  We still have some but now it's mixed in with fescue, clover, and other weeds.  So IME it was much easier to deal with occasional English ivy because that's easier to pull out.

Actually the invasive I probably hate the most is porclainberry because it always seems to grow along the fenceline and if you miss it when young it's hard to pull out.[/quote]

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