Weed - any ideas?

[ThrillsAndSpills2025]

Hi this is a horrible pernicious thing and I'm struggling to work out what it is! It's been established for years but there was a smush of jasmine and hydrangea roots and I've not been able to get to it or realised it was mine to get to. New fence shows major root is my side.

Google says maybe passiflora, but I've never seen any flowers on it. I've got a MASSIVE bit of root out but there's more, and seemingly pretty deep. It likes zooming along as well as apparently under the ground and can climb pretty high.

Sort of hooky sticky stems and leaves, a bit like goose grass, not actual sticky. I can't recall if I've seen windy tendrils.

It's also alongside creeping buttercup which is irritating but less so and I'm on top of.

THANK YOU for any guidance!!!

I'm not a friend of it usually, but in this case I'd spray it with weed killer.

Is it Virginia Creeper? Our old neighbours planted one on our boundary and we've been tried to get it under control for years.

Ground elder?

Thanks all, no definitely not Virginia creeper or ground elder, the leaves have the furry sticky hairs with no colourful foliage and it likes going up a fence if allowed to. Oh, it doesn't actually attach to whatever it's growing up, not like ivy does.

What is SUPER ANNOYING is it's bang next to reseeded lawn that's getting established. I had no idea until it seems to enjoy the regular watering to establish the lawn that there was any there.

It's horrifically middle class but I have a Lawn Doctor so I've also asked him but his remit isn't climbing things for obvious reasons!

Might have to be extreme weed killer but I also don't want to hurt the new lawn..

It’s a hop. You could keep it and brew your own beer. Greatly preferable to weed killer.

I agree, its a hop. Ive got 3 different sorts in my garden and I can testify to its thugness!

Thug in the manner of growing 10 inches over night etc. We manage to keep it under control easily and one od them (Fuggles) rewards us with a huge amount of hop flowers. Each year we make them into a garland for the house ans also dry them for hop tea and hop pillows.

Wildlife LOVE it for shelter and food (Comma butterflys food source). The golden one doesnt flower and the wild one the odd one

EPIC it does look just like hop, thank you. The butterflies can make do with the buddleia ;-). I don't drink any more for the beer but apparently you can smoke the hops so I might see what happens there...!