Rhus typhina

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Habitus and growth type

  • Height [m]: 2–6
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  • Growth form: shrub (tree)
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  • Life form: nanophanerophyte (macrophanerophyte)
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  • Life strategy: C – competitor
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  • Life strategy (Pierce method based on leaf traits): C/CS
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  • Life strategy (Pierce method, C-score): 67.4 %
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  • Life strategy (Pierce method, S-score): 23.6 %
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  • Life strategy (Pierce method, R-score): 9 %
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Leaf

  • Leaf presence and metamorphosis: leaves present, not modified
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  • Leaf arrangement (phyllotaxis): alternate
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  • Leaf shape: compound – imparipinnate
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  • Stipules: absent
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  • Petiole: present
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  • Leaf life span: summer green
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  • Leaf deciduousness in woody plants: winter deciduous
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  • Leaf anatomy: mesomorphic
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  • Functional leaf type in woody plants: broad deciduous or semi-deciduous
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Flower

  • Flowering period [month]: June–July
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  • Flower colour: yellow-green
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  • Flower symmetry: actinomorphic
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  • Perianth type: calyx and corolla
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  • Perianth fusion: free
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  • Calyx fusion: aposepalous
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  • Inflorescence type: panicula
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  • Dicliny: dioecious
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  • Generative reproduction type: allogamy
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  • Pollination syndrome: insect-pollination
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Fruit, seed and dispersal

  • Fruit type: fleshy fruit – drupe
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  • Fruit colour: red, brown
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  • Reproduction type: mostly vegetatively, rarely by seed/spores
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  • Dispersal strategy: Zea (no dispersal)
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  • Myrmecochory: non-myrmecochorous (b)
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Belowground organs and clonality

  • Root metamorphosis: root shoot
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  • Position of root buds: lateral roots
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  • Role of root buds in life-history of a plant: additive
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  • Bud bank

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  • Number of buds per shoot at the soil surface (root buds excluded): 0
  • Number of buds per shoot at a depth of 0–10 cm (root buds excluded): 0
  • Number of buds per shoot at a depth greater than 10 cm (root buds excluded): 0
  • Size of the belowground bud bank (root buds excluded): 0
  • Number of buds per shoot at the soil surface (root buds included): 0
  • Number of buds per shoot at a depth of 0–10 cm (root buds included): 15
  • Number of buds per shoot at a depth greater than 10 cm (root buds included): 15
  • Size of the belowground bud bank (root buds included): 30
  • Depth of the belowground bud bank (root buds included) [cm]: 10

Trophic mode

  • Parasitism and mycoheterotrophy: autotrophic
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  • Carnivory: non-carnivorous
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  • Symbiotic nitrogen fixation: no nitrogen-fixing symbionts
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Karyology

  • Chromosome number (2n): 30
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  • Ploidy level (x): 2
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  • 2C genome size [Mbp]: 736.09
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  • 1Cx monoploid genome size [Mbp]: 368.05
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  • Genomic GC content: 39.6 %
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Taxon origin

  • Origin in the Czech Republic: neophyte
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  • Invasion status: naturalized
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  • Geographic origin: North America
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  • Year of the first record in the wild: 1900
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  • Period of introduction: Late Modern Period (1800–1950)
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  • Introduction pathway: intentional – ornamental
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Habitat and sociology

  • Occurrence in habitats

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  • 12 Forests

  • 12U Plantations of broad-leaved non-native trees: 1 – rare occurrence
  • Affinity to the forest environment

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  • Affinity to the forest environment in Thermophyticum: 0 – taxon that does not spontaneously occur in Czech forests
  • Affinity to the forest environment in Mesophyticum and Oreophyticum: 0 – taxon that does not spontaneously occur in Czech forests
  • Colonization ability

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  • Index of colonization success (ICS): 2
  • Index of colonization potential (ICP): 9
  • Optimum successional age [years]: 38.5

Distribution and frequency

  • Floristic zone: northern temperate, southern temperate, submeridional
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  • Floristic region: Eastern America
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  • Occurrence frequency in the basic grid mapping cells and quadrants of the basic grid mapping cells: 211, 302
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  • Number of habitats with taxon occurrence in the Czech Republic

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  • Number of narrow habitats in which the taxon occurs: 1
  • Number of narrow habitats in which the taxon has its optimum: 0
  • Number of broad habitats in which the taxon occurs: 1
  • Number of broad habitats in which the taxon has its optimum: 0

Threats and protection

  • Red List 2017 (national categories): taxon is not on the Red List
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  • Red List 2017 (IUCN categories): LC(NA) – least concern (taxon is not on the Red List)
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  • Legal protection: not protected by law
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