6 (5) Shrubby to vinelike plants with three 

 leaflets which are dark green and 

 shiny above, orange to scarlet foliage 

 in the fall; POISONOUS TO TOUCH; 

 clusters of yellowish flowers below 

 the i-^aves ; fruit berrylike, yellow to 



white Rhus radicans. 



Poison Ivy 



Figures.— Leaf X%- 



6 (5) Vinelike plants with leaves of five leaflets which 

 are light green above and have serrate edges; 

 scarlet foliage in the fall; tendrils with adhesive 

 disks; flowers in a panicle; fruit a blueberry. 



Parthenocissus quinquefolia, 



Virginia Creeper or Woodbine. 



Figure 4.— Leaf X % 



7 (5) Shrub to about 10 m high, lacking 

 thorns; 7-23 linear, oblong, entire 

 leaflets with wing margined ra- 

 chis (leaf stem) ; flowers term- 

 inal, pyramidal, yellowish to 

 green; a hairy red drupelike fruit. 



Rhus copallina. 



Dwarf Sumac 



Figure 5.— Leaf X%. 



7 (5) Shrubby plants with thorns; five to nine leaflets; large persistent stipules at 

 base of compound leaves; rose colored flowers (sometimes white) 



