ILLINOIS PLANT INFORMATION NETWORK ILPIN INFORMATION ON Rhus glabra CLASS: DICOTYLEDENAE ORDER: SAPINDALES FAMILY: ANACARDIACEAE SCIENTIFIC NAME: Rhus glabra AUTHORITY: L. COMMON NAMES: SMOOTH SUMAC SYNONOMY: None PLANTS CODE: RHGL NATURAL COMMUNITIES: FOREST UPLAND FOREST DRY DRY-MESIC MESIC PRAIRIE TYPICAL PRAIRIE DRY DRY-MESIC MESIC PRIMARY GLADE LIMESTONE CULTURAL AGRICULTURAL FIELD FIELD DIVISION SUCCESSIONAL FIELD DEVELOPED LAND SAF FOREST COVER TYPE: UNAVAILABLE NATURAL DIVISION: UNAVAILABLE COUNTIES: ADAMS ALEXANDER BOND BOONE BROWN BUREAU CALHOUN CARROLL CASS CHAMPAIGN CHRISTIAN CLARK CLAY CLINTON COLES COOK CRAWFORD CUMBERLAND DEKALB DEWITT DOUGLAS DUPAGE EDGAR EDWARDS EFFINGHAM FAYETTE FORD FRANKLIN FULTON GALLATIN GREENE GRUNDY HAMILTON HANCOCK HARDIN HENDERSON HENRY IROQUOIS JACKSON JASPER JEFFERSON JERSEY JO DAVIESS JOHNSON KANE KANKAKEE KENDALL KNOX LAKE LASALLE LAWRENCE LEE LIVINGSTON LOGAN MCDONOUGH MCHENRY MCLEAN MACON MACOUPIN MADISON MARION MARSHALL MASON MASSAC MENARD MERCER MONROE MONTGOMERY MORGAN MOULTRIE OGLE PEORIA PERRY PIATT PIKE POPE PULASKI PUTNAM RANDOLPH RICHLAND ROCK ISLAND ST. CLAIR SALINE SANGAMON SCHUYLER SCOTT SHELBY STARK STEPHENSON TAZEWELL UNION VERMILION WABASH WARREN WASHINGTON WAYNE WHITE WHITESIDE WILL WILLIAMSON WINNEBAGO WOODFORD GROWTH FORM: Dicot-woody TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS: ROOTS: Primary LEAF ARRANGEMENT: Alternate LEAF TYPE: Compound (pinnately) LEAF MARGIN: Serrate LEAF VENATION: Pinnate LEAF SHAPE: Oblong Lanceolate INFLORESCENCE: Panicle FLOWER MEROUS: 5 FLOWER STRUCTURE: Complete Regular FLOWER COLOR: Yellow White FLOWER PLACEMENT: Hypogynous FRUIT: DRUPE DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC COMMENTS: Branches and petioles are glabrous and glaucous; drupes are bright red and covered with minute hairs. GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: ORIGIN: Native POPULATION DYNAMICS: STATE STATUS: Not listed FEDERAL STATUS: Not listed COMMONNESS: Common ENDEMIC: NOT-ENDEMIC BIOLOGIC: HABIT: Tree Shrub LIFE CYCLE: Perennial REPRODUCTION: Sexual Vegetative FLOWERING PERIOD: MONTH BEGINNING- 6 MONTH END- 7 TROPHIC STATUS: Autotrophic C02 FIXATION: C3 SEX: Perfect Unisexual -dioecious BIOLOGIC COMMENTS: Species is polygamodioecious - more often dioecious. ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS: Species is distributed in upland soil; roadsides; margins of woods. ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS: No data entered FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS: MAJOR DISPERSAL AGENTS: BIRD -internal MAMMAL -internal MAJOR POLLINATION AGENT: INSECT HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DATA: LANDSCAPING: YES HUMAN FACTOR COMMENTS: Plants have brilliant autumn coloration - bright red upper surface, silvery glacous lower surface. WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK INFORMATION: FOOD VALUE: DEER VALUE: - Leaves Stems Buds UPLAND GAME VALUE: - Fruit WATERFOWL VALUE: Unknown SMALL NON-GAME BIRD VALUE: - Fruit SMALL MAMMAL VALUE: - Fruit AQUATIC MAMMAL VALUE: Unknown FISH VALUE: Unknown COVER VALUE: No data entered WILDLIFE COMMENTS: Terrestrial furbearers-food-bark, fruits. Species is not an important cover species. LIVESTOCK PALATABILITY DATA: CATTLE FORAGE: No data SHEEP FORAGE: No data HORSE FORAGE: No data GOAT FORAGE: No data ENERGY VALUE: Low PROTEIN VALUE: Low POISONOUS (LIVESTOCK): No data entered REVEGETATION PLANTINGS: WEEDINESS: Non-weedy SEED AVAILABILITY: Good PROCUREMENT COMMENTS: Seed company numbers: 2,7,14,19,20,22,27,28,29,33,47,48,52 PROPAGATION COMMENTS: Form-balled and burlapped, seeds. MANAGEMENT COMMENTS: Can rejuvenate clones by plowing, fire, cutting. GENERAL COMMENTS: Species is planted for erosion control; is pioneer species. REFERENCES: Mohlenbrock, R. H., ed. 1975. Guide to the vascular flora of Illinois. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale. 494 pp. Jones, G. N. 1963. Flora of Illinois. Third ed. American Midland Naturalist Monograph 7. University of Notre Dame, Indiana. 401 pp. Steyermark, J. A. 1963. Flora of Missouri. Iowa State University Press, Ames. 1725 pp. Gleason, H. A., and A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of north- eastern United States and adjacent Canada. Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York. 810 pp. Fernald, M. L. 1950. Gray's manual of botany. 8th ed. American Book Co., New York. 1632 pp. Swink, F., and G. S. Wilhelm. 1979. Plants of the Chicago region. Third ed. The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois. 922 pp. Anon. 1981. Illinois plants for habitat restoration. Illinois Department of Conservation, Mining Program. Springfield, Illinois. 61 pp. Mohlenbrock, R. H. 1980. Forest trees of Illinois. Third ed. Illinois Department of Conservation, Division of Forestry, Springfield. 331 pp. Downton, W. J. S. 1975. The occurrence of C4 photosynthesis among plants. Photosynthetica 9(1): 96-105. Gill, J. D. and W. M. Healy. 1974. Shrubs and vines for northeastern wildlife. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report NE-9. END OF DATA FOR SPECIES Rhus glabra ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ILPIN was developed by Louis Iverson*, with data compiled by David Ketzner and Jeanne Karnes Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820 *currently employed by USDA Forest Service, 359 Main Rd., Delaware, OH 43015