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§1 Plant
Rhus trilobata Nutt.
vernacular skunkbush sumac — species · Anacardiaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Anacardiaceae R. Br.
- Genus
- Rhus
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 405 counties across 19 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- Medium
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- Low
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -53 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 140 min.
- Precipitation
- 8–20 in/yr
- pH range
- 6.5–8.2
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 4 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 4 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Red
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- Slight
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Spring
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 25,790
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 405 counties across 19 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
California view state ↗ 36 N ▾
- Butte 06007
- Colusa 06011
- Contra Costa 06013
- El Dorado 06017
- Fresno 06019
- Glenn 06021
- Humboldt 06023
- Inyo 06027
- Kern 06029
- Lake 06033
- Los Angeles 06037
- Madera 06039
- Mariposa 06043
- Mendocino 06045
- Monterey 06053
- Napa 06055
- Orange 06059
- Placer 06061
- Plumas 06063
- Riverside 06065
- San Bernardino 06071
- San Diego 06073
- San Luis Obispo 06079
- Santa Barbara 06083
- Shasta 06089
- Siskiyou 06093
- Solano 06095
- Sonoma 06097
- Sutter 06101
- Tehama 06103
- Trinity 06105
- Tulare 06107
- Tuolumne 06109
- Ventura 06111
- Yolo 06113
- Yuba 06115
Colorado view state ↗ 46 N ▾
- Alamosa 08003
- Archuleta 08007
- Baca 08009
- Bent 08011
- Boulder 08013
- Chaffee 08015
- Cheyenne 08017
- Conejos 08021
- Custer 08027
- Delta 08029
- Denver 08031
- Douglas 08035
- Eagle 08037
- El Paso 08041
- Elbert 08039
- Fremont 08043
- Garfield 08045
- Gunnison 08051
- Huerfano 08055
- Jefferson 08059
- Kit Carson 08063
- La Plata 08067
- Larimer 08069
- Las Animas 08071
- Lincoln 08073
- Logan 08075
- Mesa 08077
- Mineral 08079
- Moffat 08081
- Montezuma 08083
- Montrose 08085
- Otero 08089
- Phillips 08095
- Pitkin 08097
- Prowers 08099
- Pueblo 08101
- Rio Blanco 08103
- Routt 08107
- Saguache 08109
- San Juan 08111
- San Miguel 08113
- Sedgwick 08115
- Teller 08119
- Washington 08121
- Weld 08123
- Yuma 08125
Idaho view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 39 N ▾
- Big Horn 30003
- Blaine 30005
- Carbon 30009
- Carter 30011
- Cascade 30013
- Custer 30017
- Daniels 30019
- Dawson 30021
- Fallon 30025
- Fergus 30027
- Gallatin 30031
- Garfield 30033
- Golden Valley 30037
- Jefferson 30043
- Judith Basin 30045
- Lewis and Clark 30049
- Madison 30057
- McCone 30055
- Meagher 30059
- Musselshell 30065
- Park 30067
- Petroleum 30069
- Phillips 30071
- Pondera 30073
- Powder River 30075
- Powell 30077
- Prairie 30079
- Richland 30083
- Roosevelt 30085
- Rosebud 30087
- Sheridan 30091
- Silver Bow 30093
- Stillwater 30095
- Sweet Grass 30097
- Treasure 30103
- Valley 30105
- Wheatland 30107
- Wibaux 30109
- Yellowstone 30111
Nebraska view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Box Butte 31013
- Brown 31017
- Chase 31029
- Cherry 31031
- Cheyenne 31033
- Clay 31035
- Custer 31041
- Dawes 31045
- Dawson 31047
- Deuel 31049
- Dundy 31057
- Frontier 31063
- Furnas 31065
- Garden 31069
- Hayes 31085
- Hitchcock 31087
- Hooker 31091
- Kimball 31105
- Morrill 31123
- Scotts Bluff 31157
- Sheridan 31161
- Sioux 31165
- Thomas 31171
Nevada view state ↗ 5 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Bernalillo 35001
- Catron 35003
- Chaves 35005
- Cibola 35006
- Colfax 35007
- Curry 35009
- De Baca 35011
- Grant 35017
- Harding 35021
- Hidalgo 35023
- Lincoln 35027
- Los Alamos 35028
- McKinley 35031
- Mora 35033
- Otero 35035
- Quay 35037
- Rio Arriba 35039
- Roosevelt 35041
- San Juan 35045
- San Miguel 35047
- Sandoval 35043
- Santa Fe 35049
- Sierra 35051
- Socorro 35053
- Taos 35055
- Union 35059
North Dakota view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 9 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Bon Homme 46009
- Brule 46015
- Buffalo 46017
- Butte 46019
- Clay 46027
- Corson 46031
- Custer 46033
- Dewey 46041
- Fall River 46047
- Gregory 46053
- Haakon 46055
- Harding 46063
- Hughes 46065
- Jackson 46071
- Jones 46075
- Lawrence 46081
- Lyman 46085
- Mellette 46095
- Pennington 46103
- Stanley 46117
- Todd 46121
- Tripp 46123
- Ziebach 46137
Texas view state ↗ 87 N ▾
- Armstrong 48011
- Bailey 48017
- Bandera 48019
- Bastrop 48021
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Bosque 48035
- Brewster 48043
- Briscoe 48045
- Brown 48049
- Burnet 48053
- Caldwell 48055
- Callahan 48059
- Childress 48075
- Coleman 48083
- Comal 48091
- Comanche 48093
- Concho 48095
- Crockett 48105
- Crosby 48107
- Culberson 48109
- Dallas 48113
- Dawson 48115
- Deaf Smith 48117
- DeWitt 48123
- Dickens 48125
- Donley 48129
- Eastland 48133
- Edwards 48137
- El Paso 48141
- Ellis 48139
- Erath 48143
- Floyd 48153
- Garza 48169
- Gillespie 48171
- Gray 48179
- Grayson 48181
- Guadalupe 48187
- Hall 48191
- Hansford 48195
- Hardeman 48197
- Hartley 48205
- Hays 48209
- Hemphill 48211
- Hill 48217
- Hood 48221
- Hudspeth 48229
- Hutchinson 48233
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Johnson 48251
- Jones 48253
- Kerr 48265
- Kimble 48267
- Knox 48275
- Lamb 48279
- Lipscomb 48295
- Llano 48299
- Lubbock 48303
- McLennan 48309
- Medina 48325
- Mitchell 48335
- Moore 48341
- Nolan 48353
- Ochiltree 48357
- Oldham 48359
- Palo Pinto 48363
- Parker 48367
- Pecos 48371
- Potter 48375
- Presidio 48377
- Randall 48381
- Roberts 48393
- Schleicher 48413
- Shackelford 48417
- Sherman 48421
- Sutton 48435
- Tarrant 48439
- Taylor 48441
- Tom Green 48451
- Travis 48453
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Wheeler 48483
- Wichita 48485
- Wilbarger 48487
- Williamson 48491
- Young 48503
Utah view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Beaver 49001
- Box Elder 49003
- Cache 49005
- Carbon 49007
- Daggett 49009
- Davis 49011
- Duchesne 49013
- Emery 49015
- Garfield 49017
- Grand 49019
- Iron 49021
- Juab 49023
- Kane 49025
- Millard 49027
- Morgan 49029
- Piute 49031
- Salt Lake 49035
- San Juan 49037
- Sanpete 49039
- Sevier 49041
- Tooele 49045
- Uintah 49047
- Utah 49049
- Wasatch 49051
- Washington 49053
- Wayne 49055
- Weber 49057
Washington view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/RHTR ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3190562 ↗Record version
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