Friday, October 15, 2010

Poison Sumac

I kind of doubted the existence of this stuff, since poison "oak" is just a California version of poison ivy. But indeed, this is a different plant in the family. You can see the shape of the poison ivy leaf in the form of the last three leaflets:It is pretty:This is from a bog in Andover at the Ward Reservation.

2 comments :

Geophile said...

Very pretty.

Tim MacSweeney said...

It has white flowers; our local poiosn oak is really the same as PI, but in direct sun gets oakie looking leaves...