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Keywords: Anacardiaceae | Rhus glabra L. | Montana
The autumn colour of smooth sumac displayed via a scan, by Maureen from Montana, aka MontanaRaven@Flickr (BPotD Flickr Group Pool | original image). Many thanks again, Maureen.
Smooth sumac is distributed throughout the continental United States and overflows into both southern Canada and northern Mexico. In a photograph by Hugh Iltis on the Robert W. Freckmann Herbarium's page for Rhus glabra, you can see evidence of its ability to propagate vegetatively, allowing it to form a contiguous mass of clonal plants. The Virginia Tech Forestry Department also has a series of photographs for smooth sumac that are worth investigating.
Photography resource link: Levels of Abstraction – Are Your Photographs Real?, an essay by Michael Reichmann of The Luminous Landscape. “For some reason there are photographers who believe that photographs and the real world have more than a passing relationship to each other. When they see a photograph that has been in some visible way altered, modified or manipulated they cry "foul" – taking on the mantle of protectors of the sanctity of the inviolate image.”
Posted by Daniel Mosquin at January 21, 2006 4:49 AM
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Posted by: Gabriella at January 21, 2006 9:31 AM
Incongruously lush looking foliage of this species dotting parched hillsides of central Washington conspicuous in summer.
Posted by: Ron B at January 22, 2006 8:56 PM
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this is truly beautiful, light and color, and a harmony like of rest
Gabriella