🪶Indigenous / Native American
Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
About Fragrant Sumac
Fragrant Sumac (Rhus aromatica) is a herb used in the Indigenous / Native American tradition to help with Diarrhea, UTI, Wound Healing, and Digestive Issues. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, used both internally and topically.
Botanical background
Rhus aromatica, the fragrant sumac, is a deciduous shrub in the family Anacardiaceae native to Canada and the United States from southeast Ontario to Vermont down into central Florida to west Texas up through Nebraska over to southern Wisconsin back to Ontario. It grows in upland open woods, fields, barrens, and rocky cliffs.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Aerial Parts · bothLeaves · both