Types of Sumac – Colony, Low, or Western

Choose sumac by group first: a colony tree, a low fragrant shrub, or a western dry shrub.

Choose a colony tree, a low fragrant shrub, or a western dry shrub first

Read the species on the tag. Sumacs share sun and drain; they do not share one outline. [1] [2] [3] [4] Staghorn is the colony tree. Fragrant is the low ramble. Sugar is the western evergreen. Male and female flowers often sit on separate plants, so you need a female if you want the red cones. Once you know the kind, site it on How to Grow Sumac.

Browse by kind

Match the outline you want, then pick that kind. A colony tree and a low fragrant shrub do not share one size. Care for the plant you already have on How to Grow Sumac.

Colony trees

staghorn sumac is the usual colony tree: velvet twigs and upright red cones, often fifteen to twenty-five feet. smooth sumac is the same outline with hairless stems. winged sumac has a leafy wing along the leaf stalk. prairie flameleaf sits in that same tall class. Dissecta and Tiger Eyes are cutleaf staghorn selections, not a different genus. Tiger Eyes is female and stays smaller than the species.

Low fragrant and skunkbush

fragrant sumac stays two to six feet and rambles. It is smaller and less aggressive than a colony tree. skunkbush is the western low shrub in the same class.

Western dry shrubs

sugar sumac is an evergreen western shrub. littleleaf sumac is a desert kind. African sumac is Searsia lancea, an evergreen street tree — not a native Rhus colony.

Read the Latin on the tag — a colony tree and a low fragrant shrub do not share one outline.