Elaine wrote:

Hey that's the best kind...FREE! Go dig some up.
In the spring I always carry a shovel with me. If is it not protected and is
a native plant to your area that is. Also doesn't have a no-trespassing sign
around or happens to be a wildflower project!

I bet you can't transplant sumac easily, as it spreads mostly by spreading
runners, so is living off some other nearby plant system rather than by
its own roots.

Smooth Sumac is what I planted right next to the south wall of the house,
for shade in the summer and a pleasant shadow pattern. Being a lightweight
tree, it doesn't hurt the house.

On the other hand, it tends to break or have leaf die-offs rather easily,
leaving you with a sunny patch in your shade pattern for a year or so.

I planted bare-root sumaclettes from a mail order nursery. I don't know
where they get them.

Little offshoots are constantly trying to come up in the lawn, by the dozens.
They get scythed down regularly but remain undiscouraged. (I scythe the lawn
rather than mowing, just as a hobby. Mowing would work too.)

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