FAMILY: ANACARDIACEAE

ALTERNATE COMMON NAME:

LEAVES: alternate, compound, deciduous; densely pubescent leaves, three white oak-like leaflets; margins entire to coarsely toothed; toxic; red fall color

FLOWER: axillary panicles

FRUIT: axillary clusters of yellowish to white fruit

TWIGS: naked, brown, pubescent buds

BARK: lenticels usually conspicuous

FORM: low, erect shrub

HABITAT: pinelands, very common

WETLAND DESIGNATION: Facultative Upland (FACU): Usually occurs in non-wetlands, but may occur in wetlands of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast Plain Region

RANGE: southern US

USES: wildlife eat fruit, leaves, stems

Best Recognition Features:

1. alternate compound leaf with three oak-like leaflets
2. low, erect shrub
3. dry sites

NOTE: may just be a variety of poison-ivy