Staghorn Sumac is abundant in many areas of the sanctuary.

That is just about all the praise anyone can give to the staghorn sumac, which is its full name.

The staghorn sumac also tolerates poor soil, drought and part shade.

The staghorn sumac is a relative of the cashew - and a poor relative at that.

The staghorn sumacs are bursting with their crimson fruits tall and stately.

The Staghorn Sumac was introduced to Europe in the 17th century and is popular as a garden plant.

All parts of the staghorn sumac, except the roots, can be used as both a natural dye and as a mordant.

While dwelling on the red fruits, one must not skip over the staghorn sumac, familiar to road travelers and hikers alike.

"I love the staghorn sumac, Rhus typhina Laciniata," he said.

The poisonous plant is often confused with the highly ornamental staghorn sumac, a native species known for its scarlet foliage in the fall.

The best-known native sumac is staghorn sumac (R. typhina).

The cultivar 'Laciniata', cutleaf staghorn sumac, is also grown in gardens as an ornamental plant.

Almost as common in the East is smooth sumac, which has the same forked branches but lacks the velvety hairs of staghorn sumac.

In my experience, hybrid spiderworts or tradescantias, staghorn sumacs and plume-poppies or macleayas are all thugs.

The staghorn sumac rears its bloody hooves against The ell where grapevine bickers with its shadow self.

A Close-up View of the Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina).

The cut-leaf staghorn sumac is similar, but new branches are covered with a velvety down (like a stag's horns); its leaves turn orange and red in fall.

Like those rumpled hedges in the wild garden and the old staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina) with its velvety red antlers and orangy-scarlet leaves.

When I was there, the cut-leaf staghorn sumac - a tree that sprawls along the ground like an upside-down octopus - was full of its weird conelike fruits.

Adults feed on nectar from various flowers, including chinquapin, common milkweed, dogbane, goldenrod, meadowsweet, New Jersey tea, staghorn sumac, viburnum and white sweet clover.

But the name really refers to the fact that staghorn sumac has twigs and leaflets covered with fine, downy hairs, like the velvet that covers a deer's antlers in the spring.

Vegetation on the island includes early successional tree and shrub species on the drumlins, including Staghorn Sumac, Gray Birch, and Quaking Aspen.

Here are some species to try: Sculptural Seed Pods: Chinese lantern, clematis, columbine, coneflower, honey locust, honesty, pine cones, poppy, staghorn sumac, sweet gum, protea.

Ground-nesting birds shelter under the leaves of the staghorn sumac, and more than 20 species, including red-eyed vireos and robins, eat the spherical deep-red fruit of the female shrubs.

The stag's-horn sumach (Rhus typhina) brings out many people in a cold sweat of hatred.

A Close-up View of the Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina).

Like those rumpled hedges in the wild garden and the old staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina) with its velvety red antlers and orangy-scarlet leaves.

The larvae feed on Rhus species (including Rhus copallina, Rhus lanceolata, Rhus toxicodendron and Rhus typhina), Schinus terebinthifolia, Toxicodendron pubescens and Toxicodendron radicans.

POISON OAK (Rhus toxicodendron), an American cousin of the Tree of Heaven (Rhus typhina ) that adorns many an English garden, has been incriminated as an agent of sexually transmitted disease.