Staghorn sumac
Rhus typhina L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 5.0 m
- wide
- 5.0 m
Anacardiaceae
Also called Staghorn sumach, Red sumac, Stag's-horn sumach
Formerly Datisca hirta, Rhus americana, Rhus canadensis, Rhus filicifolia, and 5 more
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
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- E. Canada to NC. & E. U.S.A.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 2.4 m to 7.6 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 2.4 m to 7.6 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, greenRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- RHUTYP, Tará:kwi
- German
- Essigbaum, Kolben-Sumach
- Italian
- sommacco maggiore
- French
- Sumac vinaigrier, Sumac amaranthe, sumac amarante
- Spanish
- Zumaque de Virginia
- Swedish
- rönnsumak, Rönnsumak
- Polish
- Sumak odurzający, Sumak octowiec
- Czech
- škumpa orobincová
- Danish
- Hjortetaktræ
- Dutch
- Azijnboom, Fluweelboom
- Estonian
- äädikapuu, harilik sumahh
- Norwegian Bokmål
- hjortesumak
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
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Rhus typhina (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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