Shining sumac
Rhus copallinum L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Little
- tall
- 4.5 m
- wide
- —
Anacardiaceae
Also called Winged sumac, Flameleaf sumac, Eastern winged sumac
Formerly Schmaltzia copallina, Sumacus copallina, Toxicodendron copallinum
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SE. Canada to C. & E. U.S.A. and NE. & C. Mexico, CubaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 3.5 m to 5.5 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -33 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: spread, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (9)
- French
- sumac brillant
- root
- RHUCOP, tvwv-lvste
- Estonian
- kopaalisumahh
- Chinese (China)
- 亮叶漆树
- Chinese
- 亮葉鹽膚木, 亮葉漆樹, 亮叶漆树
- Russian
- Сумах копаловый
- German
- Geflügelter Sumach
- Slovak
- sumach lesklý
- Ukrainian
- Сумах копаловий
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Rhus copallinum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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