§1 Plant
Rhus typhina L.
vernacular staghorn 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
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 471 counties across 23 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -33 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 100 min.
- Precipitation
- 24–50 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.5–7.2
- Root depth
- 20 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 30 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 30 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Red
- Fruit colour
- Red
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 53,300
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Medium
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 471 counties across 23 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Boone 17007
- Carroll 17015
- Cass 17017
- Champaign 17019
- Coles 17029
- Cook 17031
- DuPage 17043
- Effingham 17049
- Grundy 17063
- Hamilton 17065
- Hardin 17069
- Iroquois 17075
- Jackson 17077
- Jo Daviess 17085
- Kane 17089
- Kankakee 17091
- Kendall 17093
- Lake 17097
- LaSalle 17099
- Mason 17125
- McDonough 17109
- McLean 17113
- Peoria 17143
- Sangamon 17167
- Stephenson 17177
- Will 17197
- Winnebago 17201
Indiana view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Allen 18003
- Boone 18011
- DeKalb 18033
- Elkhart 18039
- Fountain 18045
- Fulton 18049
- Howard 18067
- Huntington 18069
- Jasper 18073
- Jefferson 18077
- Kosciusko 18085
- Lagrange 18087
- Lake 18089
- LaPorte 18091
- Marshall 18099
- Montgomery 18107
- Newton 18111
- Noble 18113
- Parke 18121
- Porter 18127
- Pulaski 18131
- St. Joseph 18141
- Steuben 18151
- Wabash 18169
- Wayne 18177
- White 18181
- Whitley 18183
Iowa view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Barren 21009
- Boone 21015
- Boyd 21019
- Bracken 21023
- Campbell 21037
- Fayette 21067
- Gallatin 21077
- Garrard 21079
- Graves 21083
- Greenup 21089
- Hardin 21093
- Jefferson 21111
- Jessamine 21113
- Kenton 21117
- Lee 21129
- Lewis 21135
- Lincoln 21137
- Madison 21151
- Mason 21161
- Owsley 21189
- Pike 21195
- Powell 21197
- Rowan 21205
- Warren 21227
Maine view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 60 N ▾
- Allegan 26005
- Alpena 26007
- Baraga 26013
- Barry 26015
- Bay 26017
- Benzie 26019
- Berrien 26021
- Branch 26023
- Calhoun 26025
- Cass 26027
- Charlevoix 26029
- Cheboygan 26031
- Chippewa 26033
- Clinton 26037
- Delta 26041
- Eaton 26045
- Emmet 26047
- Genesee 26049
- Gogebic 26053
- Gratiot 26057
- Hillsdale 26059
- Houghton 26061
- Huron 26063
- Ingham 26065
- Ionia 26067
- Iron 26071
- Isabella 26073
- Jackson 26075
- Kalamazoo 26077
- Kent 26081
- Keweenaw 26083
- Lapeer 26087
- Leelanau 26089
- Lenawee 26091
- Livingston 26093
- Mackinac 26097
- Manistee 26101
- Mason 26105
- Mecosta 26107
- Menominee 26109
- Midland 26111
- Monroe 26115
- Montcalm 26117
- Muskegon 26121
- Newaygo 26123
- Oakland 26125
- Oceana 26127
- Ogemaw 26129
- Osceola 26133
- Otsego 26137
- Ottawa 26139
- Presque Isle 26141
- Roscommon 26143
- Sanilac 26151
- Schoolcraft 26153
- St. Clair 26147
- St. Joseph 26149
- Tuscola 26157
- Van Buren 26159
- Washtenaw 26161
Minnesota view state ↗ 32 N ▾
- Anoka 27003
- Beltrami 27007
- Blue Earth 27013
- Carlton 27017
- Carver 27019
- Cass 27021
- Clearwater 27029
- Crow Wing 27035
- Douglas 27041
- Faribault 27043
- Fillmore 27045
- Freeborn 27047
- Goodhue 27049
- Hennepin 27053
- Houston 27055
- Isanti 27059
- Itasca 27061
- Kanabec 27065
- Le Sueur 27079
- Martin 27091
- Mille Lacs 27095
- Morrison 27097
- Pine 27115
- Polk 27119
- Ramsey 27123
- Scott 27139
- St. Louis 27137
- Wabasha 27157
- Waseca 27161
- Washington 27163
- Winona 27169
- Wright 27171
New Hampshire view state ↗ 10 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 17 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 39 N ▾
- Albany 36001
- Allegany 36003
- Bronx 36005
- Broome 36007
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Chautauqua 36013
- Chemung 36015
- Columbia 36021
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Jefferson 36045
- Kings 36047
- Madison 36053
- Monroe 36055
- Nassau 36059
- New York 36061
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Ontario 36069
- Orange 36071
- Oswego 36075
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Saratoga 36091
- Schenectady 36093
- Suffolk 36103
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
- Yates 36123
North Carolina view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 64 N ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Armstrong 42005
- Beaver 42007
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bradford 42015
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Cambria 42021
- Cameron 42023
- Carbon 42025
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clarion 42031
- Clearfield 42033
- Clinton 42035
- Columbia 42037
- Crawford 42039
- Cumberland 42041
- Dauphin 42043
- Elk 42047
- Erie 42049
- Fayette 42051
- Forest 42053
- Franklin 42055
- Fulton 42057
- Greene 42059
- Huntingdon 42061
- Indiana 42063
- Jefferson 42065
- Juniata 42067
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lawrence 42073
- Lebanon 42075
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Lycoming 42081
- McKean 42083
- Mercer 42085
- Mifflin 42087
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Montour 42093
- Northampton 42095
- Northumberland 42097
- Perry 42099
- Philadelphia 42101
- Pike 42103
- Potter 42105
- Schuylkill 42107
- Snyder 42109
- Somerset 42111
- Sullivan 42113
- Susquehanna 42115
- Tioga 42117
- Union 42119
- Venango 42121
- Warren 42123
- Washington 42125
- Wayne 42127
- Westmoreland 42129
- York 42133
Rhode Island view state ↗ 2 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 44 N ▾
- Albemarle 51003
- Alleghany 51005
- Amherst 51009
- Arlington 51013
- Augusta 51015
- Bath 51017
- Bedford 51019
- Bland 51021
- Botetourt 51023
- Buchanan 51027
- Buckingham 51029
- Carroll 51035
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Clarke 51043
- Craig 51045
- Dickenson 51051
- Fairfax 51059
- Floyd 51063
- Franklin 51067
- Giles 51071
- Grayson 51077
- Highland 51091
- King George 51099
- Lee 51105
- Loudoun 51107
- Madison 51113
- Montgomery 51121
- Nelson 51125
- Page 51139
- Pittsylvania 51143
- Prince William 51153
- Pulaski 51155
- Rappahannock 51157
- Roanoke 51161
- Rockbridge 51163
- Rockingham 51165
- Scott 51169
- Shenandoah 51171
- Smyth 51173
- Stafford 51179
- Surry 51181
- Warren 51187
- Washington 51191
- Westmoreland 51193
West Virginia view state ↗ 39 N ▾
- Braxton 54007
- Brooke 54009
- Cabell 54011
- Fayette 54019
- Grant 54023
- Greenbrier 54025
- Hancock 54029
- Hardy 54031
- Jackson 54035
- Jefferson 54037
- Kanawha 54039
- Lewis 54041
- Logan 54045
- Marion 54049
- Marshall 54051
- McDowell 54047
- Mercer 54055
- Mineral 54057
- Mingo 54059
- Monongalia 54061
- Monroe 54063
- Morgan 54065
- Nicholas 54067
- Ohio 54069
- Pleasants 54073
- Pocahontas 54075
- Putnam 54079
- Raleigh 54081
- Randolph 54083
- Summers 54089
- Taylor 54091
- Tucker 54093
- Tyler 54095
- Upshur 54097
- Webster 54101
- Wetzel 54103
- Wirt 54105
- Wood 54107
- Wyoming 54109
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/RHTY ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3190538 ↗Record version
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