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Your search found 12 taxa in the family Anacardiaceae, Cashew family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.
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Common Name:
Poison Sumac, Thunderwood
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Toxicodendron vernix FAMILY: Anacardiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Toxicodendron vernix FAMILY: Anacardiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Rhus vernix 110-01-001 FAMILY: Anacardiaceae
Habitat: In peaty habitats, in the Coastal Plain frequent in streamhead pocosins and sandhill seepage bogs, in the mountains in bogs
Uncommon in Coastal Plain, rare in Piedmont & Mountains
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Eastern Poison Ivy
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Toxicodendron radicans var. radicans FAMILY: Anacardiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Toxicodendron radicans ssp. radicans FAMILY: Anacardiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Rhus radicans 110-01-002 FAMILY: Anacardiaceae
Habitat: In a wide range of habitats, including mesic forests, rock outcrops, swamp forests, brackish marshes, open areas, disturbed ground, usually in more mesic to hydric sites than T. pubescens, and particularly common in areas with fertile soils, such as bottomlands or over calcareous rocks or calcareous sands (as in maritime forests)
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Midwestern Poison Ivy
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Toxicodendron radicans var. negundo FAMILY: Anacardiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Toxicodendron radicans ssp. negundo FAMILY: Anacardiaceae
Habitat: In a wide range of habitats, including mesic forests, rock outcrops, open areas, and disturbed ground
Rare
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Wesern Poison Ivy
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Toxicodendron rydbergii FAMILY: Anacardiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Toxicodendron rydbergii FAMILY: Anacardiaceae
Habitat: Acid pine-oak forests and woodlands at moderate elevations
Rare
Native: north & northwest of the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Poison Oak, Southeastern Poison Oak
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Toxicodendron pubescens FAMILY: Anacardiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Toxicodendron pubescens FAMILY: Anacardiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Rhus toxicodendron 110-01-003 FAMILY: Anacardiaceae
Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, dry upland woodlands, around dry rock outcrops in the Piedmont and Mountains, barrens
Common in Coastal Plain (uncommon elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Fragrant Sumac, Squawbush
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Rhus aromatica var. aromatica FAMILY: Anacardiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Rhus aromatica var. aromatica FAMILY: Anacardiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Rhus aromatica 110-01-004 FAMILY: Anacardiaceae
Habitat: Dry to dry-mesic upland forests and woodlands, glade margins, stream banks, bluffs, and pastures, eastwards primarily in rocky, rather dry, woodlands, usually over mafic rocks (such as gabbro or diabase) or calcareous rocks, less commonly in sandy soils
Uncommon (rare in Carolina Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Michaux's Sumac, Dwarf Sumac, False Poison Sumac
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Rhus michauxii FAMILY: Anacardiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Rhus michauxii FAMILY: Anacardiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Rhus michauxii 110-01-005 FAMILY: Anacardiaceae
Habitat: In the fall line sandhills characteristically in submesic, loamy swales, usually associated with such species as Paspalum bifidum, Helianthus divaricatus, Tridens carolinianus, Rhus copallinum, Anthenantia villosa, Gymnopogon spp., and Aristida lanosa; in the eastern Piedmont on sandy soils derived from granite; in the central Piedmont on clayey soils derived from mafic rocks such as gabbro or mafic Carolina slates, probably all of its habitats (formerly) in frequently burned situations
Rare and scattered (historically in SC, but not recently seen)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Staghorn Sumac
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Rhus typhina FAMILY: Anacardiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Rhus typhina FAMILY: Anacardiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Rhus typhina 110-01-006 FAMILY: Anacardiaceae
Habitat: Roadsides, old pastures, thickets, clearings, rock outcrops, barrens
Common in NC Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Winged Sumac, Shining Sumac, Dwarf Sumac
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Rhus copallinum + FAMILY: Anacardiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Rhus copallinum + FAMILY: Anacardiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Rhus copallina 110-01-007 FAMILY: Anacardiaceae
Look for it in dry woodlands, and also (depending on variety) in sandhills or rocky glades or maritime thickets
Common, uncommon, or rare - depending on variety & region
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Smooth Sumac, Common Sumac
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Rhus glabra FAMILY: Anacardiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Rhus glabra FAMILY: Anacardiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Rhus glabra 110-01-008 FAMILY: Anacardiaceae
Habitat: Disturbed areas, clearings, roadsides, woodlands
Common (uncommon in NC Coastal Plain, rare in GA & SC Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
American Smoketree
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Cotinus obovata FAMILY: Anacardiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) PLANTS National Database: Cotinus obovatus FAMILY: Anacardiaceae
Habitat: Glades, exposed bluffs, and dry upland woodlands over calcareous soils and rock outcrops
Rare
Native to Georgia
Common Name: Brazilian Peppertree, Brazilian-pepper, Christmasberry Tree
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Schinus terebinthifolia FAMILY: Anacardiaceae
INCLUDING PLANTS National Database: Schinus terebinthifolius var. raddianus FAMILY: Anacardiaceae
Habitat: Disturbed areas, and an aggressive invader of pine savannas, hammocks, and other natural areas
Rare
Non-native: Brazil & Paraguay
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