Rash-causing shrub

Usage examples of sumac.

The yard was filled with weeds and trash, along with a riot of sumac and ailanthus bushes and a pair of dead oaks.

This is an economical proceeding in many cases, especially in working with many of the old tannin materials, like sumac, divi-divi, myrobalans, and the modern direct dyes, which during the dyeing operations are not completely extracted out of the bath, or in other words the dye-bath is not exhausted of colouring matter, and therefore it can be used again for another lot of goods simply by adding fresh material to make up for that absorbed by the first lot.

The brush here was mostly sumac and redbud, with waist-high tangles of bramble and clumps of pine that rose above his head.

The tips of the green pines, the crests of the silver spruces, waved about masses of vivid gold aspen trees, and wonderful cerise and flaming red of maples, and crags of yellow rock, covered with the bronze of frostbitten sumac.

This was srub, a beverage in local repute, of questionable nature, but suspected of owing its tint and sharpness to some kind of syrup derived from the maroon-colored fruit of the sumac.

The top of the rise was covered by a dense stand of sumac and bay laurel.

Passing through a mix of black locust, crabapple, and sumac, he tracked it to a jumble of rocks.

The neat and practical fields men plowed and nurtured rode side by side with the tangled lushness of the live oaks and moss, the ubiquitous sumac, the ribbons of dark water that could never, would never, be truly tamed.

We also have various odds and ends of military uniform that we can dye, and we even got some pots of copperas and sassafras and sumac dyes.

She had managed to find some sumac after all, and she held forth the basket as a kind of peace offering when Dacey looked up at her.

Now it was thick with weeds and poison sumac, rows of dead trees lining either side, their claw like branches reaching into the gray sky.

Beyond is an old stake fence overgrown with drifts of kudzu and what might be poison sumac.

The vegetation changed from pine and manzanita to aspen and acacia, with long vinelike tendrils of wild strawberries growing parasitically over the rock face, intermixed with ferns and bottlebrush and poison sumac.

Mrs Thompson's house was one of those dark, rambling old Connecticut houses that stand away from the road, overhung by pin oaks and poison sumac bushes, its grounds black and muddy but overgrown with unnaturally green grass.

She looked for the shiny leaves that meant poison ivy, poison oak, or poison sumac, and didn't see any .