| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anacardiaceae | Anacardiaceae | Cashew Family |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. | ||
| Anacardiaceae | Cotinus | Smoketree |  (c) gambrel, benjamín - CC0 | ||
| Anacardiaceae | Cotinus coggygria | European Smoketree | Suburban areas, persistent from horticultural use. | Native of Europe and Asia. C. coggygria is planted as an ornamental. |  (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Anacardiaceae | Cotinus obovatus | American Smoketree | Glades, exposed bluffs, and dry upland woodlands over calcareous soils and rock outcrops. | Se. Tennessee (Cumberland Plateau) (Chester, Wofford, & Kral 1997), nw. Georgia, and n. Alabama west to Oklahoma and e. and sc. Texas. |  (c) Finzel, Brian - CC-BY-SA |
| Anacardiaceae | Mangifera | Mango |  (c) Bradley, Keith | ||
| Anacardiaceae | Mangifera indica | Mango | Hammocks, disturbed upland areas, roadsides, suburban woodlands. | Native of continental se. Asia. | (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Anacardiaceae | Metopium | Poisonwood |  (c) Bradley, Keith | ||
| Anacardiaceae | Metopium toxiferum | Poisonwood | Hammocks, pine rocklands, coastal berms, disturbed areas. | S. Florida; West Indies, Mexico. | (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Anacardiaceae | Pistacia | Pistachio |  (c) Campos, Aidan | ||
| Anacardiaceae | Pistacia chinensis | Chinese Pistachio | Planted horticulturally, but now naturalizing freely in suburban areas. | Native of China, the Philippines, and Taiwan. This species is a major new invasive species in the Southeast. Krings (2011) documents its occurrence in the Piedmont of North Carolina (Wake County). Serviss & Serviss (2020) reported its naturalization in Arkadelphia, Arkansas (Clark County). Reported for Marengo and Montgomery counties, Alabama (Diamond & Keener 2021). |  (c) Lindqvist, Annika - CC-BY |
| Anacardiaceae | Pleiogynium |  (c) ryan_fritsch - CC-BY-ND | |||
| Anacardiaceae | Pleiogynium timoriense | "Planted in southern Florida where seedlings have been reported near cultivated trees; it has not yet established itself outside of cultivation but may do so in future" (Pell, Mitchell, & Miller 2024). | Native from s. Vietnam to Australia. | (c) ryan_fritsch - CC-BY-ND | |
| Anacardiaceae | Rhus | Sumac |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY | ||
| Anacardiaceae | Rhus ×borealis | ||||
| Anacardiaceae | Rhus aromatica var. arenaria | Sand Sumac, Dune Sumac | Sandy woodlands and openings. | N. Ohio, Michigan, ne. Indiana west to Illinois and e. Iowa, mainly along the Great Lakes shores. |  (c) ksandsman - CC-BY |
| Anacardiaceae | Rhus aromatica var. aromatica | Fragrant Sumac | Dry to dry-mesic upland forests and woodlands, glade margins, stream banks, bluffs, and pastures, eastwards primarily in rocky, rather dry, woodlands, usually over mafic rocks (such as gabbro or diabase) or calcareous rocks, less commonly in sandy soils. | The species (if interpreted to include Rhus trilobata at varietal rank) ranges throughout much of temperate North America. Var. aromatica is the most eastern component of the complex, distributed from New Hampshire, Ontario, and Minnesota south to Panhandle Florida and Texas. |  (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Anacardiaceae | Rhus aromatica var. serotina | Midwestern Fragrant Sumac | Dry to dry-mesic upland forests and woodlands, glade margins, and bluffs. | S. Wisconsin, Iowa, and sc. South Dakota south to s. Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, and e. Texas. Some populations east of the Mississippi River in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Alabama may represent this taxon (D. Estes, pers. comm., 2012). |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY |
| Anacardiaceae | Rhus aromatica var. trilobata | Skunkbush Sumac | Calcareous woodlands and prairies. | North Dakota, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Oregon south to Iowa, sw. Arkansas, se. Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Mexico. |  (c) Campos, Aidan |
| Anacardiaceae | Rhus copallinum var. copallinum | Eastern Winged Sumac, Eastern Flameleaf Sumac | Longleaf pine sandhills, dry woodlands, maritime thickets (especially from VA northward), old fields, roadsides. | S. New York south to s. Florida, west to e. Texas, mainly on the Coastal Plain and lower Piedmont. |  (c) Keim, Mary - CC-BY-NC-SA, permission granted to NCBG |
| Anacardiaceae | Rhus copallinum var. latifolia | Eastern Winged Sumac | Rocky glades, dry woodlands. | S. Maine to Wisconsin, south to c. Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and e. Texas. |  (c) Hill, Sonnia |
| Anacardiaceae | Rhus glabra | Smooth Sumac, Bachoucta (frc) | Disturbed areas, clearings, roadsides, woodlands. | Maine west to British Columbia, south to Panhandle Florida, Texas, California, Mexico (Chihuahua, Sonora). |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Anacardiaceae | Rhus lanceolata | Prairie Sumac, Prairie Flameleaf Sumac | Open areas, especially on limestone. | Ne. and se. Oklahoma, Texas Panhandle, and s. New Mexico south to e. Texas, s. Texas, and Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas). |  (c) Campos, Aidan |
| Anacardiaceae | Rhus michauxii | Michaux's Sumac, Dwarf Sumac | In the fall line sandhills characteristically in submesic, loamy swales, usually associated with such species as Paspalum bifidum, Helianthus divaricatus, Tridens carolinianus, Rhus copallinum, Anthenantia villosa, Gymnopogon spp., and Aristida lanosa; in the eastern Piedmont on sandy soils derived from granite; in the central Piedmont on clayey soils derived from mafic rocks such as gabbro or mafic Carolina slates, probably all of its habitats (formerly) in frequently burned situations. | Rare and scattered (though formerly more common) from sc. Virginia south to Georgia; disjunct in Alachua County, Florida. Large populations were found in sc. Virginia (Nottoway and Dinwiddie counties) in frequently burned military artillery "impact areas" on Fort Barfoot (formerly Fort Pickett) (Fleming & Ludwig 1996). |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY |
| Anacardiaceae | Rhus microphylla | Desert Sumac, Scrub Sumac | Rocky hillsides, riverbanks. | E. Texas, sw. Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona south through c. and w. Texas to Mexico. |  (c) Hill, Sonnia |
| Anacardiaceae | Rhus typhina | Staghorn Sumac | Roadsides, old pastures, thickets, clearings, rock outcrops, barrens. | Nova Scotia and New Brunswick west to Minnesota, south to n. Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Kansas. |  (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Anacardiaceae | Rhus virens var. virens | Evergreen Sumac, Lentisco | Open areas, especially on limestone. | C. and se. Texas west to s. New Mexico, south to sc. Mexico. |  (c) Cressler, Alan M. |
| Anacardiaceae | Schinus | Brazilian-pepper |  (c) Bradley, Keith | ||
| Anacardiaceae | Schinus longifolia | ||||
| Anacardiaceae | Schinus molle var. areira | Peruvian Peppertree | Persistent and volunteering in suburban and urban areas, from horticulture. | Native of South America. |  (c) Lauu - CC-BY |
| Anacardiaceae | Schinus terebinthifolia | Brazilian-pepper, Christmasberry Tree | Disturbed areas, and an aggressive invader of pine savannas, hammocks, and other natural areas. | Native of Brazil and Paraguay. A noxious invasive in the Florida peninsula. Reported for Beaufort County, South Carolina (Bradley et al. [in prep.]). Reported as seeding down in 1990 from adult plants that were removed, in Ouachita County, Arkansas (Serviss & Peck 2022). | (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Anacardiaceae | Sorindeia |  (c) Rabarijaona, Romer - CC0 | |||
| Anacardiaceae | Sorindeia madagascariensis | Mataanbiyood, Mtikiza | Escaping from cultivation into hammocks. | Native of Madagascar. | (c) Rabarijaona, Romer - CC0 |
| Anacardiaceae | Spondias |  (c) Bradley, Keith | |||
| Anacardiaceae | Spondias purpurea | Purple Mombin, Hog-plum, Jocote, Ciruela, Abal, Spanish-Plum | Disturbed hammocks, other disturbed areas. | Native of the Neotropics. |  (c) Benita, Casa - CC-BY-SA |
| Anacardiaceae | Toxicodendron | Poison Ivy, Poison Oak, Poison Sumac |  (c) Campos, Aidan | ||
| Anacardiaceae | Toxicodendron pubescens | Poison Oak, Southeastern Poison Oak | Longleaf pine sandhills, dry upland woodlands, around dry rock outcrops in the Piedmont and Mountains, barrens. | Primarily Southeastern: s. New Jersey south to n. Florida, west to e. Texas, inland to West Virginia, e. Tennessee, c. Tennessee, se. Missouri, and s. Kansas. |  (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Anacardiaceae | Toxicodendron radicans var. negundo | Midwestern Poison Ivy, Herbe à la puce (frc) | In a wide range of habitats, including mesic forests, rock outcrops, open areas, and disturbed ground. | New York west to Michigan, Minnesota, and Nebraska, south to sw. Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Texas, almost entirely in or west of the Appalachians. | (c) Campos, Aidan |
| Anacardiaceae | Toxicodendron radicans var. pubens | Xeric limestone woodlands, barrens, outcrops, and clearings. | S. Illinois and Missouri south to se. Louisiana and s. Texas; disjunct eastward in c. Kentucky, c. Tennessee, and w. Virginia (Virginia Botanical Associates 2019). |  (c) Michael, John - CC-BY | |
| Anacardiaceae | Toxicodendron radicans var. radicans | Eastern Poison Ivy, Herbe à la puce (frc) | In a wide range of habitats, including mesic forests, rock outcrops, swamp forests, brackish marshes, open areas, disturbed ground, usually in more mesic to hydric sites than T. pubescens, and particularly common in areas with fertile soils, such as bottomlands or over calcareous rocks or calcareous sands (as in maritime forests). | Nova Scotia south to s. Florida (and the Bahamas), west to e. Texas, inland to Vermont, c. Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Arkansas. |  © Scott Ward |
| Anacardiaceae | Toxicodendron radicans var. verrucosum | Texas Poison Ivy | On limestone, in uplands. | Oklahoma south to c. Texas. |  (c) Hale, Vince - CC0 |
| Anacardiaceae | Toxicodendron rydbergii | Western Poison Ivy | Acid pine-oak forests and woodlands at moderate elevations. | Nova Scotia west to British Columbia, south to New England, New York, n. Ohio, n. Illinois, Iowa, w. Kansas, w. Texas, Arizona, Mexico (Chihuahua, Sonora), and Oregon; disjunct in the Appalachians in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Virginia. Reported for North Carolina by Gillis (1971), but the location (Cumberland Co., in the fall-line Sandhills), does not seem plausible {investigate further with specimen}. |  (c) Danielson, Erik |
| Anacardiaceae | Toxicodendron vernix | Poison Sumac, Thunderwood, Poison Elder, Poison Dogwood | In fens and other peaty habitats, in the Coastal Plain frequent in streamhead pocosins, sandhill seepage bogs, and bayhead-cutthroat savanna ecotones (c. FL), occurring in the mountains in bogs and further northward in (typically) higher-quality marshes, fens, and swamps. | Nova Scotia west to Minnesota, south to c. peninsular Florida (to Highlands County) and Texas. Found near Paris, Tennessee just west of the transition zone from the Western Highland Rim into the Tennessee Coastal Plain (M. Pyne, pers. comm.; 2025). |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY |