Rhus glabra Bill Cawthon and the plant earned the

and the plant earned the folk name kidney-bush along the way

This hybrid by Pedro Dot of Spain was introduced in 1927

Salix tristis is a dwarf

a contained bed

how they reached us

Rhus glabra Bill Cawthon and the plant earned theSmooth sumac is a bold, colony forming native shrub of the eastern and central United States, in time reaching the scale of a small tree, and one of the finest plants going for a hot, dry, sunny site where little else will thrive. The long, pinnately compound leaves give an almost tropical texture through summer, and the plant spreads by root suckers into broad, picturesque colonies, or can be held to a single tree like specimen where the suckers are