Botanical Name: Rhus typhina
Type: Deciduous shrub
Family: Anacardiaceae
Native Range: Eastern North America
Zone: Hardy to Zone 3 (-40 to -34°C )
Size: 4.5-7.5m tall x 6-9m wide (15-24ft tall x 19-30ft wide)
Bloom Description: Greenish-yellow
Light: Full sun to part shade
Water: Dry to medium
Maintenance: Medium
Suggested Use: Naturalize
Flower: Showy
Leaf: Good Fall
Attracts: Birds
Fruit: Showy
Other: Winter Interest
Tolerate: Rabbit, Drought, Erosion, Dry Soil, Shallow-Rocky Soil, Black Walnut
Wonderful for informal, naturalized areas where this suckering shrub is free to form thickets. Best known for ornamental seed clusters that begin bright red then darken to rich maroon and persist through most of the winter. New foliage is coppery and covered with velvet. Fall color ranges from red to orange to yellow.