Sugar bush
Rhus ovata S.Watson
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 3.7 m
- wide
- 3.7 m
Anacardiaceae
Also called Sugar sumac
Formerly Neostyphonia ovata, Schmaltzia ovata
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.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Desert or dry shrublandKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- California to Arizona and N. MexicoKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from SNWA and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: SNWA full, part; Wikipedia full
- Height
- 3.7 mRead from SNWA, one source
- Spread
- 3.7 mRead from SNWA, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- White, pinkRead from SNWA and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -17.8 °C (USDA zone 7a)Read from SNWA, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (5)
- Spanish
- arbusto de azúcar
- Russian
- Сумах овальнолистный
- Chinese
- 糖鹽膚木
- Chinese (China)
- 糖盐肤木
- German
- Zucker-Sumach
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
- SNWA, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Rhus ovata (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.