Fragrant Sumac 'Grow-Low'

A good quality groundcover with shiny dark foliage and good yellow to orange to red fall color. Occasionally planted in homeowner yards, ...Read Morebut much more used by landscape designers and architects.

Easy and adaptable, this shrub forms a groundcover that spreads by runners that root. It is useful for mass planting to stabilize embankm...Read Moreents in full sun where soil is poor and pH is neutral. Does not tolerate shade.

As a specimen shrub, it is mediocre at best. The flowers are inconspicuous, and I've never seen fruit. Leaves resemble poison ivy and in full sun can give good late fall color. Definitely a background plant.

The literature suggests that it prefers acid soils, but can tolerate alkaline soils up to pH 8.3. http://www.hort.cornell.edu/uhi/outreach/pdfs/dwgc.pdf

Junky sandy soil, full sun, watered only if it hasn't rained for weeks in the worst of the July heat. Yet, it's fine. Magnificent brill...Read Moreiant orangy-red in the fall. Hope to get more to put near the birches, should look awesome with the white bark and yellow leaves!

We have 3 in front of the house that were there when we moved in. They are not terribly impressive. Ours never really show any fall col...Read Moreor. It may be they just don't hold their leaves long enough, since they seem to be bare pretty quickly in the fall. Possibly the combination of weather (zone 5) and packed clay full of rocks.