Since your sumac appears to be completely smooth instead of pubescent as for
the common "Staghorn Sumac", I would say your plant is the "Smooth Sumac",
Rhus glabra L.


Your red flower is a "Daylily" (Hemerocallis) hybrid. It may have come as a
stowaway with some other plant you bought. If it came up as a volunteer from
seed, it is something new definitely worth keeping and propagating. Do you
grow other "Daylilies" in your garden?


Ken wrote in message
...
Can you help me identify this tree and this flower.

As near as I can determine from my Audobon book, the tree is some kind of
sumac, but I could be wrong.

http://k_cook.home.mindspring.com/sumac.jpg

The flower just appeared in a flower bed this summer. I don't remember
planting it. It is on a long stem, and the plant reminds me of some kind
of
bulb or iris plant.

http://k_cook.home.mindspring.com/redflower.jpg