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Southeastern Poison Oak (Toxicodendron pubescens Mill.)

Also known as eastern poison oak, Atlantic poison oak.

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Photo © Leila Dasher, CC BY 4.0.

↑Summary

A low-growing, rhizomatous shrub favoring dry, infertile soils, native to the southeastern to south-central US.

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This map is based on our research. We have checked its accuracy to Level 3 ecoregions. Although this plant occurs somewhere in each of these regions, it may only occur in a small part of some or all of them.

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↑Habitat

Atlantic Poison Oak is found in a variety of dry upland habitats with poor soils.

It tolerates both alkaline and acidic soils, occurring in acidic sands such as inland sandhills as well as coastal sand dunes, as well as on limestone outcroppings and other higher-pH rock outcroppings.

↑Notes

We prefer the common name "southeastern poison oak" because it more accurately communicates this species' range in North America; "eastern poison oak" conveys some, but less information, and "Atlantic poison oak" is misleading as this species only proceeds up the Atlantic coast about to New Jersey, but is found well inland into Oklahoma and Arkansas.