Staghorn Sumac
- Botanical Name
- Rhus typhina
- Min Zone
- 4
- Max Zone
- 8
- Height
- 15 to 25 feet
- Width
- 15 to 25 feet
- Flowers
- June to early July: greenish-yellow hairy panicles
- Fruit
- Red fuzzy drupes arranged on panicles
- Fall Color
- Yellow, orange and red
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Soil
- Adaptable
- Planting & Care
- Easily transplanted
- Urban, drought and salt tolerant
- Colonizes by suckers
- Problems
- Aggressive, verticillium wilt
- Varieties
- Dissecta - cut leaf variety, brilliant red fall color, fall foliage resembles flames
- Tiger Eyes - cut leaf variety with chartreuse foliage
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