OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.

Your search found 12 taxa in the family Anacardiaceae, Cashew family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.

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camera icon speaker icon 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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camera icon speaker icon 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

 


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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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camera icon 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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camera icon speaker icon 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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camera icon speaker icon 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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camera icon 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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camera icon speaker icon 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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camera icon 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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camera icon speaker icon 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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camera icon speaker icon 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

 


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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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