Rhus lanceolata

Rhus lanceolata, the prairie sumac, is a plant species native to Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, New Mexico, and the Mexican states of Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas.[2][3][4]

Rhus lanceolata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Anacardiaceae
Genus: Rhus
Species:
R. lanceolata
Binomial name
Rhus lanceolata
(A. Gray) Britton
Synonyms[1]
  • Rhus copallinum var. lanceolata A. Gray
  • Schmaltzia lanceolata (A. Gray) Small

Rhus lanceolatais a shrub or small tree up to 9 m (30 feet) tall, reproducing by means of underground rhizomes. Leaves are pinnately compound with 13-17 lanceolate leaflets and a winged rachis. Leaflets are entire (untoothed) or with small teeth, green and shiny above but whitish and pubescent below. Flowers are born in a panicle up to 14 cm (5.6 inches) tall. Flowers are white to greenish. Fruits are lens-shaped, about 6 mm (0.25 inches) across, dark red and hairy.[5][6][7][8][9]

Uses

Birds eat the fruit during the winter, and deer forage the foliage. The tannin-containing leaves have been used to tan leather.[10]

References
  1. Tropicos
  2. "Rhus lanceolata". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  3. Virginia Tech Plant Data Sheet Archived 2010-08-26 at the Wayback Machine
  4. US Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, Digital Representations of Tree Species Range Maps, Rhus lanceolata
  5. Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas i–xv, 1–1881. The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson.
  6. Britton, Nathaniel Lord, & Shafer, John Adolph. 1908. North American Trees 606.
  7. Small, John Kunkel. 1903. Flora of the Southeastern United States. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill.
  8. Texas Native Plants Database, Aggie horticulture, Texas A&M University
  9. University of Texas, BIO406D, Introduction to the Flora of Central Texas, Michael Gruenstaeudl, Rhus lanceolata
  10. Little, Elbert L. (1980). The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Eastern Region. New York: Knopf. pp. 550–51. ISBN 0-394-50760-6.
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