Skunkbush Sumac
The skunkbush sumac is a very attractive shrub found in all of the states west of the Mississippi River excluding Minnesota, Missouri and Louisiana and can be found in the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan and much of Northern Mexico. When crushed, the leaves emit a strong, unpleasant odor (hence the common name) but the sticky, edible fruit have a sharp, lime-like taste. These berries were found growing in rural Socorro County, about an hour south of Albuquerque, New Mexico on a chilly spring morning.
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Anacardiaceae, Angiosperms, Chihuahuan Desert, Eudicots, La Joya, NM, National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico, Plantae, R. trilobata, Rhus, Rhus trilobata, Rosids, Sapindales, Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, Socorro County, aromatic sumac, basket-bush, basketbush, beautiful, beauty, berries, berry, botany, color, desert, dicot, dusk, edible, evening, field, flora, food, food source, forage, foraging, fragrant sumac, fresh, fruit, fuzzy, green, hairy, ill-scented sumac, lemonade-bush, maroon, native, natural, nature, perennial, plant, plants, red, ripe, scented sumac, shrub, skunk-bush sumac, skunkbush, skunkbush sumac, sourberry, southwest, spring, squawberry, squawbush, stink-bush, sumac, tasty, three-leaf sumac, wild, yummy
- Contained in galleries
- Sumac, Anacardiaceae (Cashew and Sumac Family)
