Beginning Botany: Winter Shrub Identification
Beginning Botany: Winter Shrub Identification
Beginning Botany: Winter Shrub Identification
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Staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina)<br />
Tools for ID<br />
<strong>Winter</strong> <strong>Shrub</strong><br />
ID Process<br />
Invasive<br />
<strong>Shrub</strong>s<br />
Native<br />
<strong>Shrub</strong>s<br />
Thanks!<br />
Practice<br />
Habitat: disturbed open sites and xeric to dry-mesic<br />
forest openings & edges, especially with droughty a/o<br />
calcareous soils, swamp margins but not in swamps or<br />
bogs<br />
Twig/bud arrangement: alternate<br />
Key characteristics:<br />
•Tall clonal shrub with smooth gray bark & many stout, densely<br />
velvety-pubescent twigs having an “antler” appearance; large<br />
mustard-yellow pith<br />
•Buds tan, round, & velvety-pubescent; surrounded by leaf scar (leaf<br />
petiole covers bud during growing season)<br />
•Fruit a persistent, erect cluster of round, red drupes covered in long<br />
hairs<br />
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