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The skunkbush sumac has historically been used for medicinal and other purposes. The bark has been chewed or brewed into a drink for cold symptoms, the berries eaten for gastrointestinal complaints and toothache, and the leaves and roots boiled and eaten for many complaints. The leaves have also been smoked.
Sumac was used as a treatment for several different ailments in medieval medicine, primarily in Middle Eastern and South Asian countries (where sumac was more readily available than in Europe). An 11th-century shipwreck off the coast of Rhodes , excavated by archeologists in the 1970s, contained commercial quantities of sumac drupes .
Rhus trilobata, the sourberry, skunkbush or three-leaf sumac, a shrub species native to the western half of Canada and the United States; See also. Trilobata
In Oklahoma, winter home ranges always contained skunkbush sumac, tree cholla, or human-made structures providing overhead cover. [10] Night-roosting cover: scaled quail roosts were observed in yucca (Yucca angustifolia), tree cholla, and true mountain-mahogany (Cercocarpus montanus)-yucca-fragrant sumac (Rhus aromatica) vegetation types. The ...
A skunkbush sumac growing on a gypsum plant stand, or pedestal [64] The plants at White Sands National Park stabilize the leading edges of the dunes, providing both food and shelter for wildlife. Humans have made extensive use of the dunefield's native plant life, using some for food and others to create cloth and medicine.
Rhus trilobata (skunkbush sumac), stems with the bark removed used in making baskets. [67] Ribes cereum var. pedicellare (whiskey currant), berries used as food, and leaves eaten with uncooked mutton fat or deer fat. [64] Rorippa sinuata (spreading yellowcress), infusion of plant used as a wash and smoke from blossoms used for inflamed eyes. [68]
Rhus aromatica — fragrant sumac; Rhus copallinum — winged sumac; Rhus glabra — smooth sumac; Rhus trilobata — skunkbush; Rhus typhina — staghorn sumac; Rhus × pulvinata; Toxicodendron diversilobum — western poison-oak; Toxicodendron radicans — eastern poison-ivy; Toxicodendron rydbergii — northern poison-oak; Toxicodendron ...
While ponderosa pine and mixed-grass prairie grow on the highland of this range, its ravines offer habitat to species such as wild rose, skunkbush sumac, and chokecherry. At the foot of the mountains grow bur oak. Groves of aspen frequently separate meadows with fine soil from ponderosa pine forests growing in coarse soil. [8]