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§1 Plant
Rhus microphylla Engelm. ex A. Gray
vernacular littleleaf sumac — species · Anacardiaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Anacardiaceae R. Br.
- Genus
- Rhus
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 66 counties across 4 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- High
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -13 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 150 min.
- Precipitation
- 8–26 in/yr
- pH range
- 7–8.5
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 10 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 10 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Moderate
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Red
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 18,000
- Propagation
- seed, cuttings, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- Yes
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 66 counties across 4 states/territories.
New Mexico view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 49 N ▾
- Armstrong 48011
- Bexar 48029
- Brewster 48043
- Briscoe 48045
- Comal 48091
- Concho 48095
- Crockett 48105
- Crosby 48107
- Culberson 48109
- Deaf Smith 48117
- Dickens 48125
- Ector 48135
- El Paso 48141
- Foard 48155
- Frio 48163
- Garza 48169
- Gillespie 48171
- Hardeman 48197
- Howard 48227
- Hudspeth 48229
- Irion 48235
- Jackson 48239
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Kinney 48271
- La Salle 48283
- Leon 48289
- Live Oak 48297
- Lubbock 48303
- Martin 48317
- Maverick 48323
- Medina 48325
- Menard 48327
- Mitchell 48335
- Nolan 48353
- Pecos 48371
- Presidio 48377
- Randall 48381
- Reeves 48389
- Schleicher 48413
- Scurry 48415
- Sterling 48431
- Sutton 48435
- Taylor 48441
- Terrell 48443
- Tom Green 48451
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Webb 48479
- Winkler 48495
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/RHMI3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7707078 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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