Sumac blooming on Stonebriar just above the Elders'.  It's right on the corner, looking beautiful.  There are lots of them all over the neighborhood and in the surrounding area.  You can see them along the roadways, and peeking out from the woods.  
 

Sumac is in the Cashew family, in the genus Rhus.  There are lots of species in the genus Rhus, including poison ivy, poison oak, and different sumacs.  The Sumacs are small trees or shrubs with feathery compound leaves.  Each leaf has between 7-21 leaflets.  You can see them in the picture.  The flowers are small and green and grow in these pyramidal clusters.  I'm pretty sure these are Winged Sumac, Rhus copallina.  But definitely NOT poison Sumac, which is easily recognized by its straw colored berries in loose clusters on purplish stalks, and its preference for swamps and bogs.  
 

The deer browse on the leaves; and there are honey bees all over it too, meaning there will be berries later on.  Birds depend on the berries in winter when other fruit may be scarce.  We've seen cardinals, bluebirds, and woodpeckers in our Sumacs eating the berries all winter.  
 

Be on the lookout for Winged Sumac in your travels, they are all around.

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!