Is this Poison Sumac? A whole bunch of it has popped up beneath and near the magnolia tree on my property and I’m taking the day off to yank it all out along with a lot of other weeding:



I’m not sure if these are tiny Magnolia trees or poison sumac and thought I’d check before I go grabbing it; the leaves are nearly identical to Magnolia just larger. I don’t think poison sumac is very common here in PA, but all kinds of crap is growing like crazy this spring with all this rain we’ve gotten. Just yesterday we got 2 inches, some areas got 4...in one day.

Don’t think so. Poison Sumac leaves have smooth edges unlike those in your pic.

looks kinda like pokeweed but the stem looks a little more woody. but it's not poison sumac, imo.

Kind of looks like American walnut sapling.


Arman

You should be good to go. If in doubt, scrub as described in the video linked below, the post also has an ID guide that covers poison ivy, oak, and sumac.

Help with poison ivy.

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Originally posted by ARman:
Kind of looks like American walnut sapling.


Arman

There is a huge old Shagbark Hickory tree on my neighbors property maybe 50 feet away from this point. Could it possibly be that and squirrels carried the nuts there and they germinated?

I hear a lot less about poison oak and sumac problems. Are they less "toxic" than poison ivy or is it just harder to come in contact with them?

This has...for lack of a better term...popped up over the last week in my yard...it is not poison sumac...the leaves are not smooth on the edges (maybe just plain old sumac)...I pull it up and wash my hands with a bunch of soap accompanied with a hard scrubbing with a wash rag (just to be safe)...





That being said...I have had a "bumper crop" of poison ivy the last few years...poison ivy is a bitch

So could these be tiny Hickory trees? I do have one nearby in the neighbor’s yard and it drops a million nuts all over, and the squirrels carry them all over:

Poison Sumac has red stems