I looked it up and it does grow in Europe, as well as Asia and other parts of the Americas.
All you have to do is google poison ivy europe and it comes up with a bunch of links about how it was taken to Englad as an ornamental in the 1600s and where it grows etc.
Here's is just one of the numerous links I found.
http://library.thinkquest.org/C007974/1_3poi.htm?tqskip1=1 |