Rhus glabra Bill Cawthon This hybrid by Pedro Dot

This hybrid by Pedro Dot of Spain was introduced in 1927

and the plant earned the folk name kidney-bush along the way

the naked-flowering jasmine

on bare branches while the rest of the garden sleeps

sun-baked ground

Rhus glabra Bill Cawthon This hybrid by Pedro DotSmooth sumac is a bold, colony forming native shrub of the eastern and central United States, in time reaching the scale of a small tree, and one of the finest plants going for a hot, dry, sunny site where little else will thrive. The long, pinnately compound leaves give an almost tropical texture through summer, and the plant spreads by root suckers into broad, picturesque colonies, or can be held to a single tree like specimen where the suckers are