Rhus glabra Bill Cawthon broad and leafy

broad and leafy

silvery white beneath in the family manner

Salix tristis is a dwarf

and the plant earned the folk name kidney-bush along the way

dwarf ferns

Rhus glabra Bill Cawthon broad and leafySmooth sumac is a bold, colony forming native shrub of the eastern and central United States, in time reaching the scale of a small tree, and one of the finest plants going for a hot, dry, sunny site where little else will thrive. The long, pinnately compound leaves give an almost tropical texture through summer, and the plant spreads by root suckers into broad, picturesque colonies, or can be held to a single tree like specimen where the suckers are