Fall is here and the outdoors are starting to showcase the season. Alan McGuckin captured a photo of a young buck hanging out in a patch of winged sumac near Skiatook Lake. If you have a fishing, ...

Our native sumacs are misunderstood plants that often have a bad reputation for closely resembling the “tree-of-heaven,” or ailanthus tree. Sumac are most often found in open, recently disturbed sites ...

There are two kinds of sumac in the Skiatook area – smooth sumac and winged sumac. Smooth or winged refers to the appearance of the stem between the leaves. In winged sumac, a bit of leaf tissue is ...

When I announced to some friends that I was planning to establish a native sumac grove on my property, the first thing I heard was, “Why would you want to plant that trash tree on your property?” I ...

Q: I purchased property in Union County and had a guy give me a quote for clearing it. He said it’s full of poison sumac. Any idea if poison sumac has been reported here? Thad Weed, Blairsville A: The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People who have severe allergies to mango or cashew may not react well to sumac, as it belongs so the same family, Anacardiaceae ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Readers sometimes complain that I don't write about enough native plants. Let me be clear – I write about good plants, whether ...

APPALACHIAN INTERPRETATION: Ryan Milt, owner of Asheville Wild Foods, uses sumac berries to make a local version of Middle Eastern za’atar spice, which he sells along with other products at the West ...