Anacardiaceae Leaves are compound, alternate, and deciduous with a pubescent rachis.
Leaves turn bright red in the fall.
Bark is gray and smooth with lenticels. Flowers are greenish-white. Fruit is a cluster of bright red drupes. Staghorn sumac is a shrub or small tree forming thickets in open areas in the eastern US and as far south as northwest Alabama. Intolerant of shade.