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By DR. DIANE RELF
Extension Consumer Horticulturist
Both native and exotic varieties of sumac can be used in landscape plantings. Because they are commonly found along highways and in deserted fields, people often do not consider their value for the landscape. Most are members of the genus Rhus, and are different from poison sumac. Toxicodendron vemix. Thus species do not produce the oils know to cause allergic reaction like poisop sumac or poison ivy. Garden sumacs grow under conditions that are normally too stressful for other plants and can be used more often in the home landscape.
Sumac Offers Variety of Colors
Through Seasons
Sumac Shrubs vary in heights with divided, lace-like foliage that is glossy green in summer and brilliant red, wine, and gold in fall. Tiny, green-white flowers are borne in, pyramid-shaped flower clusters that ripen into showy clusters of scarlet berries in the fall. These fruits stay on the shrubs throughout the winter, adding to the winder landscape. Sumacs bear male and female flowers on different plants. For good fruit displays, be sure to plant female and male sumacs near each other. •
Most sumacs grow well in urban conditions and tolerate heavy, clay soils. Sumacs produce suckers and spread, creating large masses that can fill banks, areas stripped of topsoil, or other tough sites, but can create work in a small landscape with limited space. Most sumacs are hardy throughout the Southeast U.S., from the coast to the mountains.
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