Taxon: Toxicodendron pubescens Mill.

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A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

MI(as Rhus toxicodendron)*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• eastern poison-oak   (Source: AH 505 ) – English
  
• poison-ivy   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 ) – English
  
• behaarter Gift-Sumach   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• giftsumak   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Lampe & McCann; Kingsbury, as Toxicodendron quercifolium)
  
• Weed   (fide Atlas WWeed)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Toxicodendron pubescens from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - New Jersey [s.]
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Kansas [s.e.], Missouri [s.], Oklahoma
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas

References:

• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Gillis, W. T. 1971. The systematics and ecology of poison-ivy and the poison-oaks (Toxicodendron, Anacardiaceae). Rhodora 73:402–417. [= T. toxicarium].
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. [= Rhus toxicodendron].
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann. 1985. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants. [poisonous].
• Terrell, E. E. et al. 1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505.
• Yatskievych, G. & J. Turner. 1990. Catalogue of the flora of Missouri. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 37. [= T. toxicarium].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Toxicodendron pubescens.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Toxicodendron pubescens.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Toxicodendron pubescens.

Synonyms:

• (=) Rhus toxicarium Salisb.
  
• (=) Rhus toxicodendron L.
  
• (=) Rhus toxicodendron var. quercifolium Michx.
  
• (=) Toxicodendron quercifolium (Michx.) Greene
  
• (=) Toxicodendron toxicarium Gillis
  

Check other web resources for Toxicodendron pubescens Mill.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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