Description:

A shrub or small tree typically growing in colonies; older plants are in the middle and smaller, younger plants radiate out on the sides.

Height:

The red hairy fruit are on terminal ends of the branches in cone-shaped clusters.

Diameter:

Diameter

Leaves:

The leaves are alternate and pinnately compound, each with 9-31 serrate leaflets. Twigs and petioles are densely hairy.

Bark:

Bark

Twigs:

Twigs

Flowers:

The red hairy fruit are on terminal ends of the branches in cone-shaped clusters. autumn into spring.

Fruit:

Fruit appears in the autumn and persist into spring.

Habitat:

Staghorn sumac is often found on poor, dry soil and in areas where other plants find conditions too difficult to survive. It readily produces new sprouts at the base of existing plants. Seedlings can grow in cracks in the pavement. Although it is often planted as an ornamental, staghorn sumac can rapidly encroach into gardens, lawns, and walkways.

Comments:

Native to the eastern United States, ranging as far south as Tennessee.

Similar Species: Dwarf sumac, Smooth sumac, and Poison-sumac