Rhus glabra

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The leaves are alternate, 30-50 cm long, compound with 11-31 leaflets, each leaflet 5-11 cm long, with a serrated margin. The leaves turn scarlet in the fall. The flowers are tiny, green, produced in dense erect panicles 10-25 cm tall, in the spring, later followed by large panicles of crimson berries that remain throughout the winter.

Similar plants:

• Cotinus coggygria, Rhus cotinus (Smoketree)
• Rhus batophylla (Redberry Rhus , Grey Rhus)
• Rhus dentata, Searsia dentata (Nana-Berry)
• Rhus integrifolia (Lemonade Berry, Lemonade Sumac)
• Rhus ovata (Sugar Bush, Chaparral Sumac)
• Rhus sp. (Sumac)
• Rhus typhina (Staghorn Sumac)