fragrant sumac (Rhus aromatica)

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Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name: Rhus aromatica Aiton
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.: Rhus aromatica
Authorship: The author or authors credited with publishing the scientific name. It is written after the name, sometimes with the year, for example L. (Linnaeus) in Zea mays L. An author in parentheses first published the name in another genus or rank.: Aiton
Common names: fragrant sumac, Aromatic Sumac, Lemon Sumac, Polecatbush, Skunkbrush, Squawbush, Sweet Sumac, basket bush, skunkbush, sweet-scented sumac
Names in other languages (20)
Gewürz-Sumach, Zumaque apestoso, agrito, doftsumak, duftender Sumach, hoyvnēcv-rakko, kokulu sumak, lõhnav sumahh, sumac aromatique, sumac odorant, sumach voňavý, sumak aromatyczny, tsameesh, tuoksusumakki, škumpa aromatická, Сумах душистый, Աղտոր բուրավետ, 香漆, 香盐肤木, 香鹽膚木
Kingdom: One of the broadest ranks of biological classification. It groups organisms that share very basic features, for example plants (Plantae), animals (Animalia) or fungi (Fungi).: Plantae
Phylum: Rank below kingdom that groups organisms with a shared general body plan, for example chordates (Chordata), arthropods (Arthropoda) or vascular plants (Tracheophyta). In botany the same rank is also called division.: Tracheophyta
Class: Rank below phylum, for example mammals (Mammalia), birds (Aves), insects (Insecta) or monocot plants such as grasses and orchids (Liliopsida).: Magnoliopsida
Order: Rank below class that groups related families, for example grasses and their relatives (Poales) or bats (Chiroptera).: Sapindales
Family: Rank below order that groups related genera. Family names usually end in -aceae in botany (for example Poaceae, the grass family) and in -idae in zoology (for example Felidae, the cat family).: Anacardiaceae
Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.: Rhus
Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.: aromatica
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.: species
Reference species: Rhus aromatica
Taxonomic status: Whether the taxonomic catalogue the record comes from currently accepts this name for the organism, or treats it as a synonym of another accepted name or as doubtful.: accepted name

Photos and conservation status

IUCN Red List category: The extinction-risk category that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assigns to a species on its Red List. EX Extinct: there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW Extinct in the wild: it survives only in cultivation, in captivity or as a population far outside its past range. CR Critically endangered, EN Endangered and VU Vulnerable: the three threatened categories, from an extremely high to a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT Near threatened: close to qualifying as threatened. LC Least concern: evaluated and not threatened. DD Data deficient: there is not enough information to assess its risk. NE Not evaluated: not yet assessed against the criteria. It describes the risk of the species worldwide, not its situation in a project's area.: Not available.

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Interacciones documentadas

GloBI says it is documented somewhere in the world. Biolitica answers whether it could happen here.

A documented interaction means it was recorded somewhere in the world. It does not mean it occurs here.

Types shown: 2 of 11 has its flowers visited by × visits the flowers of × 9 more types with data for this species

Flower visit

has its flowers visited by 149 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. Visiting a flower is not pollinating it. «Pollinates» is a different term and a different block, and merging the two is the measured defect that turned ~88 shared «pollinators» into birds and primates.

Organism	Reads as	Studies	Where it was documented
Unequal Cellophane Bee Colletes inaequalis Colletidae	has its flowers visited by	14	not compared
14 sources · 14 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1370906 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 4, 2015 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/202700413 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · March 15, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/5385329 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · March 16, 2017 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/110218551 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 2, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/117932615 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 18, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/117933021 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 18, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/16681915 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 29, 2017 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/22157330 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 7, 2019 · Human observation And 6 more sources, with fewer records, not listed here. A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
European Honey Bee Apis mellifera Apidae	has its flowers visited by	12	not compared
12 sources · 12 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/219823013 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · June 1, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/120660386 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · June 7, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/122223716 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · June 17, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/224276745 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · June 21, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/19550459 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · June 16, 2012 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/26248452 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · June 2, 2019 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/375881252 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · June 26, 2026 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/51439398 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · June 28, 2020 · Human observation And 4 more sources, with fewer records, not listed here. A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
European Honey Bee Apis mellifera Apidae	has its flowers visited by	12	not compared
12 sources · 12 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/202440008 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · March 14, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/202700418 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · March 15, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/211868388 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 29, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/211868897 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 29, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/111024597 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 9, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/113624449 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 29, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/10579610 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · March 31, 2018 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/40167481 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · March 14, 2020 · Human observation And 4 more sources, with fewer records, not listed here. A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Eastern Carpenter Xylocopa virginica Apidae	has its flowers visited by	8	not compared
8 sources · 8 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/295834932 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · June 19, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/221422686 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · June 8, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/224807518 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · June 23, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/123276656 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · June 24, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/51330930 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · June 28, 2020 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/166243062 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 29, 2023 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/179271558 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 19, 2023 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/82075739 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · June 7, 2021 · Human observation A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.

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visits the flowers of 1 organism

Organism	Reads as	Studies	Where it was documented	Actions
Grass Poaceae Poaceae	visits the flowers of	2	not compared	Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at family level.
2 sources · 2 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/135571880 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Sept. 18, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/137580730 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Oct. 4, 2022 · Human observation A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.

Showing 1 of 1, by number of studies

Interaction data from Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI), GloBI 0.11. Each row keeps the citation its own study published.

Interactions are published at species level: they are not resolved by variety or race.

Each block is headed by the source's own term, read from this species' end — not by a category of ours. Two similar terms are not merged.

«Documented here» means the interaction was observed in this territory. It is not evidence that the species is here, and it does not enter the niche model.

Acompañantes documentados

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Documented uses and recommendations

Uses and recommendations that a source documents for this species beside a crop, each in its own context. They are the source's statements, not traits of the species and not Biolítica's recommendations, and none of them is a relation between two species.

Among the sources you can read, none documents a use or recommendation of this species beside a crop.