Noun: Rhus vernix
- Smooth American swamp shrub with pinnate leaves and greenish flowers followed by greenish white berries; yields an irritating oil
"Hikers carefully avoided the Rhus vernix in the wetland";
- poison ash, poison dogwood, poison sumac, Toxicodendron vernix
Type of: poisonous plant
Part of: genus Toxicodendron, Toxicodendron
Encyclopedia: Rhus vernix