🌿This week’s native water-saving tree is… Smooth Sumac : Rhus glabra This tough, colony-forming shrub will bring color and character to even your driest spots. Growing 10–20 feet tall with crooked, leaning trunks and striking branches, it’s rugged and beautiful. Its long, feather-like leaves turn brilliant shades of red and orange in early fall, making it one of the most vivid native shrubs in your landscape. Female plants produce upright clusters of bright red, fuzzy berries that persist throu

beautiful foliage of the sumac tree with green foliage, beautiful foliage of the sumac tree in sunny weather

ID That Tree: Smooth Sumac

Sumac in autumn, when its pinnate leaves are bright yellow, orange to red. Autumn leaves of Rhus Glabra 'Smooth Sumach'.

Y'all be on the lookout for this stunner. 👀🌿This is smooth sumac or Rhus glabra. If you're worried about getting ahold of poison sumac instead of this guy just know that poison sumac (toxicodendron vernix) berries are white not red. #kidneymedicine #herbalmedicine #foraging #foragedmedicine #herbalist | The Deep Roots School of Foraging & Herbal Medicine