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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.
Your search found 11 taxa in the family Anacardiaceae, Cashew family, as understood by Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Poison Sumac, Thunderwood
Look for it 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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Common Name:
Eastern Poison Ivy
Look for it 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, & 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:
Wesern Poison Ivy
Look for it in acid pine-oak forests & woodlands at moderate elevations
Rare
Native: north & northwest of the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Poison Oak
Look for it in dry woodlands, around dry rock outcrops in Piedmont & Mountains, esp prevalent in sandhills
Common (uncommon in Piedmont & Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Fragrant Sumac, Squawbush
Look for it 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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Common Name:
Michaux's Sumac, Dwarf Sumac, False Poison Sumac
Look for it in the fall line sandhills characteristically in submesic, loamy swales; 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
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Staghorn Sumac
Look for it on roadsides, in old pastures, thickets, clearings, rock outcrops, barrens
Common in NC-SC (rare in GA)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Winged Sumac, Shining Sumac, Dwarf Sumac
Look for it in dry woodlands, and also (depending on variety) in sandhills or rocky glades or maritime thickets
Common (var. copallinum) or uncommon (var. latifolia)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Smooth Sumac, Common Sumac
Look for it in disturbed areas, clearings, roadsides, woodlands
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
American Smoketree
Look for it in limestone woodlands and glades
Rare
Native to Georgia
Look for it in disturbed areas, especially moist or wet
Non-native: Brazil & Paraguay
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