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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Fragrant Sumac at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Malvids: Sapindales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Rhus aromatica var. aromatica
FAMILY
Anacardiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rhus aromatica var. aromatica
FAMILY
Anacardiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 110-01-004:
Rhus aromatica
FAMILY
Anacardiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Schmaltzia crenata
COMMON NAME:
Fragrant Sumac, Squawbush
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_sccr3_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm120325_760
March McCormick County SC
Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve
Coarsely toothed above mid-leaflet. Lateral leaflets assymmetric & sessile, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.
COMPARE
Fragrant Sumac and Poison Oak
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JK Marlow jkm090404_148
April Walker County GA
Pigeon Mountain
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JK Marlow jkm090404_172
April Walker County GA
Pigeon Mountain
Straggly, upright, rounded shrub, 1'-7' tall, not poisonous, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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JK Marlow jkm130407_003
April Columbia County GA
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JK Marlow jkm170401_368
April McCormick County SC
Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm180504_440
May Meriwether-Talbot Counties GA
Sprewell Bluff WMA
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JK Marlow jkm180506_1997
May Crawford County GA
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_rhus_aromatica_8
May
Short dense catkin-like clusters open before or during leaf expansion, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.
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JK Marlow jkm140603_378
June Pickens County SC
SC Botanical Garden
Petiolule of terminal leaflet is the same length as the lateral petiolules, per www.carolinanature.com.
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JK Marlow jkm140603_381
June Pickens County SC
SC Botanical Garden
Leaflets thick, at first pubescent on both surfaces, glabrate in age, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm160611_027
June Edgefield County SC
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_r_aromatica_aroma
June
Fruits roundish, very hairy, bright red, and quite conspicuous, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.