Carolina Woody Plants

[BeyondTheGarden]

Identifying plants outside of residential plantings is frustrating here.  I felt like I had a halfway decent handle on natives in the PNW, but here, so many things have escaped cultivation and there are so many plants that I just don't know where to begin. 

I see this growing on the woodline.   Using a dichotomies key results in Fraxinus, but I do not believe that to be correct.  It does not look like anything I've ever known to be an Ash. They are always low, up to 12' tall perhaps more like a shrub. 

When I saw it dimly at night, I took it for a Mahonia. 

 

[BeyondTheGarden]

Hickory repens?  

[Silas_Sancona]

11 minutes ago, Jesse PNW said:

Identifying plants outside of residential plantings is frustrating here.  I felt like I had a halfway decent handle on natives in the PNW, but here, so many things have escaped cultivation and there are so many plants that I just don't know where to begin. 

I see this growing on the woodline.   Using a dichotomies key results in Fraxinus, but I do not believe that to be correct.  It does not look like anything I've ever known to be an Ash. They are always low, up to 12' tall perhaps more like a shrub. 

When I saw it dimly at night, I took it for a Mahonia. 

 

Not sure which sp, but this one looks like a Sumac.. Note the subtle " leafy looking "wings " on the leafstalk between each leaflet, and ..if connected to it, the fruit.  While not all possess it, you may notice a ..somewhat unpleasant to some... smell when the leaves are crushed.

[BeyondTheGarden]

I believe you are correct.  It appears to match Rhus copallinum.  Thank you @Silas_Sancona

[Silas_Sancona]

21 minutes ago, Jesse PNW said:

I believe you are correct.  It appears to match Rhus copallinum.  Thank you @Silas_Sancona

   I'm sure you already know this but, keep your eyes out for the " Sumac " you don't ever  want to touch,  lol..