Description ²

• Shape: Small woody plant
• Leaf/Branch Arrangement: Alternate
• Flower: Yellow/green elongated cluster
• Leaves: compound in groups of 3, 6 inches long and 4½ inches wide, egg shaped with pointed tip, few large teeth, sometimes just on one side
• Bark: smooth
• Fruit/Seed: white/yellow, round, green berry, 1/8 inch diameter
• Height: 6-48 inches
• Flowering: June - July
• Habitat: open woods, fields, roadsides
• Other: Noxious weed, produces urushiol oil which can cause a rash when in contact with skin.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Robert Flogaus-Faust, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toxicodendron_rydbergii_RF.jpg
2. (c) Minnesota Scientific and Natural Areas, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Flora of North America (beta)
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• Go Botany
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• Maryland Biodiversity Project
• NatureServe Explorer 2.0
• OregonFlora.org
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• USDA PLANTS database
• VASCAN by Canadensys
• World Flora Online

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