Flower Notes:
Greenish-white flowers bloom May to July.
Foliage Notes:
“Leaflets three, let it be.” Compound green leaves are alternate. Three leaflets that are smooth or toothed, rounded or pointed and glossy or dull. Leaflets are hairy beneath. Leaves turn red-yellow in fall.
Stem Notes:
All parts of the plant contain volatile oils that can cause significant skin irritation on direct or indirect contact.
Fruit Notes:
Waxy, creamy-white to yellowish-white berries ripen in late summer and persist into winter. Some birds feed on the fruits.
Soil Notes:
Can grow in a wide variety of conditions including medium moisture soils in sun to shade.
Range:
Throughout the United States and much of southern Canada in both dry and wet woodlands, thickets, valleys, clearings, fencerows, roadsides and waste ground.
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