Rhus lanceolata

Rhus lanceolata, the prairie sumac, is a species of plant native to the south-western United States (Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, New Mexico), and northern Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas).^[2][3][4]

Rhus lanceolata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Sapindales
Family:	Anacardiaceae
Genus:	Rhus
Species:	R. lanceolata
Binomial name
Rhus lanceolata (A. Gray) Britton
Synonyms[1]
Rhus copallinum var. lanceolata A. Gray Schmaltzia lanceolata (A. Gray) Small

Rhus lanceolata is a shrub or small tree up to 9 m (30 feet) tall, reproducing by means of underground rhizomes. Leaves are pinnately compound with 13-17 lanceolate leaflets and a winged rachis. Leaflets are entire (untoothed) or with small teeth, green and shiny above but whitish and pubescent below. Flowers are born in a panicle up to 14 cm (5.6 inches) tall. Flowers are white to greenish. Fruits are lens-shaped, about 6 mm (0.25 inches) across, dark red and hairy.^{[5][6][7][8][9]}

Uses

Birds eat the fruit during the winter, and deer forage the foliage. The tannin-containing leaves have been used to tan leather.^[10]