One such plant is poison sumac, a deciduous, woody shrub or small tree. Poison sumac (Toxicodendron ... poison sumac by its 9–23 leaflets and red berries. The most widespread sumac — staghorn ...

Its distinctive cone-shaped clusters of furry, red fruit make it easy ... considered a shrub and sometimes a tree, in favorable conditions, the staghorn sumac can reach 30-feet high, and as ...

a poison sumac shrub (or small tree) will grow from about five to 20 ... The stems are typically a red or reddish-brown color and when the plant ages, the color turns a more brown or gray color.