Rhus ovataS.Watson

sugar bush

WFO wfo-0001049912 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Rhus ovata, photographed by James C. Davis
fig. a James C. Davis, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-06-03 / obs. 203038482
Rhus ovata, photographed by Amthinkia
fig. b Amthinkia, CC0 1.0 / obs. 200418802
Rhus ovata, photographed by James C. Davis
fig. c James C. Davis, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 200374570
Rhus ovata, photographed by velodrome
fig. d velodrome, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197679909
Rhus ovata, photographed by James C. Davis
fig. e James C. Davis, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 196668485
Rhus ovata, photographed by Millie Basden
fig. f Millie Basden, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193381497
Rhus ovata, photographed by velodrome
fig. g velodrome, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202493397
Rhus ovata, photographed by James C. Davis
fig. h James C. Davis, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 192679566

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Flowering n = 389 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 389 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 4 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Neostyphonia ovata (S.Watson) Abrams
  • Rhus ovata var. traskiae F.A.Barkley
  • Schmaltzia ovata (S.Watson) F.A.Barkley
  • Schmaltzia ovata var. traskiae (F.A.Barkley) F.A.Barkley

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.