Skip to content

Home
How To
Native Plants

Native Plant Search

Home
How To
Native Plants

Native Plant Search

Rhus aromatica

Shrub

HomeShrubRhus aromatica

Dry rocks, sands and open woods, often on limestone outcrops.

Family: Anacardiaceae
Height: 1.2 m / 4 ft
Sun
Light, Medium and Heavy Soil
Dry to Moist

Plant Rating

Edible Uses: 4 of 5
Medicinal Uses: 2 of 5
Other Uses: 2 of 5

Native Habitat

Lemon Sumach, Fragrant sumac Rhus aromatica native habitat is Dry rocks, sands and open woods, often on limestone outcrops.

Edible Uses

Fruit - raw or cooked. The fruit is small with very little flesh, but it is easily harvested and when soaked for 10 - 30 minutes in hot or cold water makes a very refreshing lemonade-like drink (without any fizz of course). The mixture should not be boiled since this will release tannic acids and make the drink astringent. The fruit can also be dried and ground into a powder then mixed with corn meal and used in cakes, porridges etc.

Copyright © 2026 - Plants For A Future