Euonymus Species, Fortune's Spindle, Japanese Spindle Shrub, Winter Creeper

Do NOT plant this invasive vine. My neighborhood in eastern Cincinnati is OVERRUN with it. When I bought this house, the yard (mostly sh...Read Moreade) was completely taken over by wintercreeper, which marches over and through fences and scaled up shrubs and tall trees. Thick (3"-4" diameter) ropes of it girdled tree trunks. It was a nightmare to eradicate - took me two summers of backbreaking labor. Because my neighbors are careless and/or lazy, they allow this invader to take over everything in their yards, and the berries fall into my yard, which means I have to be ever-vigilant to pull up any seedlings. Woods and forests are being choked to death with it. Local nurseries actually sell the stuff. I think it should be banned from sale. It's the kudzu of the southern Midwest.

A horrible invasive weed here in Eastern Kansas and much of the rest of the Eastern USA. It's completely smothering some woodlands here a...Read Morend will climb up, over, and kill just about anything with time. It's very difficult to get rid of too, because small root fragments left after pulling will push up more foliage and it's very resistant to some common herbicides.

My Wintercreeper never grew as a shrub, but more of a groundcover (and boy, did it do that). It also does well in less than full sun.

I ended up getting rid of both of mine because the scales were just too much and were spreading to other plants. Since I've gotten rid of...Read More them, there's no sign of scales.

Easy to grow and prefers filtered sun. Tolerates deep shade. Can be used as a groundcover, and in some places, a lawn alternative.

2-4' high as shrub. 8-15' as climber. Has numerous variegated forms, usually as bushy shrubs.