Easily-confused! |
If your specimen is a/​has: | with leaflet margin (edge): | with (seasonally) flower cluster: | | then you have: |
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shrub,
2–3–5 × the height of an 🚶︎ adult human; stem and twigs=hairy |
▲▲ toothed with
large teeth visible from 3 steps back; leaf injury exudes milky juice |
size of very-large
ice cream cone, inverted above branch, yellow-green (flower) or deep-red (fruit) |
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lookalike
staghorn sumac Rhus typhina.
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tree;
bark=deeply furrowed tan;
some months 🌰︎ nuts on or under tree, which do not separate into sections |
▲▲ toothed with long teeth visible within arm's length;
leaf=very large
(>20 cm) (>8 in),
leaflets=large (4–20 cm)
(1½–8 in)
| size of little-finger,
green catkin
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lookalike
butternut Juglans cinerea.
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tree; bark=smooth, tan or light gray-green with optional shallow tan furrows, lots of lenticels |
___ smooth, except base has 0–1–2–4 ∩ bumps | large, above branch, yellow-to-orange |
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this plant, please
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