DWARF SUMAC
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File Size: 105 KB |
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Rhus copallinum L.
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Woodson County, Kansas |
Height: 10-32 feet |
Family: Anacardiaceae - Cashew Family |
Flowering Period: June, July |
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Also Called: | | Flame-leaf sumac, winged sumac. | Trunks: | | Shrubs or trees; stems or trunk erect; bark grayish brown, smooth or fissures shallow; wood yellowish brown, soft. | Twigs: | | Brown, hairy with curled hairs or glabrate, brittle; leaf scars U-shaped; buds ovoid, apex acute, scales pubescent. | Leaves: | | Deciduous, alternate, odd-pinnately compound; stipules absent; petiole 1.2 to 3.2 inches, minutely pubescent; blade 6 to 10 inches; rachis winged; leaflets 9-15, sessile or terminal one with blade abruptly tapered and appearing petiolulate, elliptic to ovate, 2 to 3.2 inches long, 1 to 1.6 inches wide, base acute to obtuse, margins entire, rarely obscurely toothed, apex acute to acuminate, abaxial surface light green, pubescent, adaxial surface dark green, glabrous or sparsely pilose. | Flowers: | | Panicles, terminal on new growth, 4 to 8 inches long, 4.8 to 7 inches wide; 100-300-flowered; peduncles .4 to .8 inch, densely pilose; pedicels .2 to .4 inch, densely pilose. Flowers mostly unisexual, some bisexual also present, radially symmetric; sepals 5, connate proximally, greenish white, ovate, .04 to .06 inch; petals 5, distinct, greenish yellow, ovate to elliptic, .1 to .12 inch; staminate: stamens 5; pistillate; pistil 1, styles 3; stigmas 3, head-shaped. | Fruit: | | August and September; drupes, crimson to red, globose, .15 to .18 inch, viscid-pubescent; stone 1, olive-brown, ovate to kidney-shaped, smooth to somewhat rough. | Habitat: | | Rocky, open, wooded hillsides, prairies, roadsides, and old fields | Distribution: | | East 1/3 of Kansas | Origin: | | Native | Uses: | | Native Americans used the fruits to make red and black dyes and used the bark and fruits medicinally. | Comments: | | Rhus copallinum is sometimes planted as an ornamental for its lustrous leaves and brilliant red or reddish-orange fall foliage. It forms forming sparse thickets by underground suckers. |
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Dwarf sumac | ![](thumbnails/wingedsumac12.jpg) | 130 KB | Woodson County, Kansas |
| Dwarf sumac inflorescence | ![](thumbnails/wingedsumac13.jpg) | 97 KB | Woodson County, Kansas |
| Dwarf sumac leaves | ![](thumbnails/wingedsumac2.jpg) | 69 KB | Cherokee County, Kansas |
| Dwarf sumac leaves | ![](thumbnails/wingedsumac4.jpg) | 83 KB | Cherokee County, Kansas |
| Dwarf sumac inflorescence | ![](thumbnails/wingedsumac6.jpg) | 118 KB | Cherokee County, Kansas |
| Dwarf sumac | ![](thumbnails/wingedsumac7.jpg) | 187 KB | Cherokee County, Kansas |
| Dwarf sumac bud | ![](thumbnails/wingedsumacbud.jpg) | 30 KB | Cherokee County, Kansas |
| Dwarf sumac buds | ![](thumbnails/wingedsumacbuds.jpg) | 33 KB | Cherokee County, Kansas |
| Dwarf sumac leaf scar | ![](thumbnails/wingedsumacscar.jpg) | 33 KB | Cherokee County, Kansas |
| Dwarf sumac inflorescence | ![](thumbnails/Rhus_copallinum5.jpg) | 138 KB | Wildcat Glades, Newton County, Missouri |
| Dwarf sumac inflorescence | ![](thumbnails/Rhus_copallinum7.jpg) | 117 KB | Wildcat Glades, Newton County, Missouri |
| Dwarf sumac fruit | ![](thumbnails/Rhus_copallinum11.jpg) | 130 KB | Wildcat Glades, Newton County, Missouri |
| Dwarf sumac fruit | ![](thumbnails/Rhus_copallinum10.jpg) | 105 KB | Wildcat Glades, Newton County, Missouri |
| Dwarf sumac habit | ![](thumbnails/Rhus_copallinum12.jpg) | 208 KB | Wildcat Glades, Newton County, Missouri |
| Dwarf sumac habit | ![](thumbnails/Rhus_copallinum13.jpg) | 220 KB | Wildcat Glades, Newton County, Missouri |
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