Common Name: smooth sumacScientific Name: Rhus glabra L.Family Name: Anacardiaceae - Cashew FamilyIdentification NotesLife Cyclenative perennial small tree or shrub, reproducing by seed and colony-forming rhizomes Stemsupright, woody, new growth smooth and often glaucous, bark brown-gray with numerous lenticels Leavesalternate, pinnately compound; leaflets 11 to 35, elliptic to lanceolate, serrated margins, dark green above pale below Flowerspale yellow, small, dioecious, upright panicle, fruit red and velvety when mature on female plants