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Native shrubs from last night; elderberry, fragrant sumac, and arrowwood viburnum

Rhamnus lanceolata

species that often was associated with alkaline dry hillsides, open talus hillsides, and has it’s core in the barren sections of the Ozarks but does well in barren sections in the ILP as well. It was at one point an incredibly common species before amur honeysuckle and heartstopper buckthorn. Now, in Ohio we see it rarely, even less so than the niche companion Dr. Lucy Braun’s field notes on it mentioned, which is Rhus aromatica.

Late June is when this species is in bloom, an incredible nectar source.

I wish nurseries would give us the option of this plant because of this.

I included a stem shot of spice bush and lance leaf buckthorn because of the lenticel patterns often having over lap and they both form understory thicket often along the same forested hillsides, crack the leaves if your not sure, spice bush is very aromatic.

Aside from that, I would like more people to report this species via I naturalist when they find it if they are in east coast states, the south, or the ILP where it is uncommon or rare.

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rhus aromatica ‘gro-lo’

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Chert barrens, Wildcat Glades ecotype, Rhus aromatica

Leaves are normal sized, plant growing upright, growing with normal form not dwarfed.

Desert ecotypes, serpentine basin ecotypes, granite ecotypes, and sand dune ecotypes tend to have irregular or unique form compared to the standard alkaline rocky soil ecotype norms.

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Rhus aromatica, Osage lake ecotype, Wichita Mountains, Oklahoma

The leaves of this ecotype are small and the plant never gets large.

Growing on acidic granite mineral soil.

Usually this species is on calceric soils

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Interdunal meadows are some of the best places to see some of the more xeric members of the dune communities. Left is Opuntia humifusa, one of two native cacti still left in the temperate midwest (Opuntia fragilis is extremely rare). The right is a Rhus aromatica thicket, which I had to crumble up the leaves and smell. The subthicket communities are crucial as resting areas for interdunal inhabitants when fire breaks are the quickest refuge outside of interdunal wetlands. The fuel load under this species is significantly less than the open non thicket parries of the savanna and the root systems themselves are crucial for soil stability even this far inland.