Topic: Color is the same as poison oak

[Patty S]

There are some plants growing next to Lincoln's back porch, that he keeps asking me about, so I went there today & took a few pics.
     
It looks to me like there had been an older plant there... possibly a tree or a large shrub, as new shoots are taking off from an old stump.

He thinks they look like poison oak, but I don't think they are... mainly, cuz there are a few larger ones along the street outside his house, & it appears that the city has been maintaining them!
         

This is the top of the more mature plant in the above pic.
     

I hope someone can ID this, cuz Lincoln won't go near it, for fear of getting a rash!   Once I find out what it is, maybe he'll be wiling to weed the bed by his porch! (There are some climbing roses there that look like the devil, cuz they're laying all over the ground!)

[patches]

Geesh, Patty, I don't know what it is, but I don't think it's poison oak    because that usually has three leaflets.  It's been along time since Girl Scouts, but I don't remember the leaves looking like those do!  

[Patty S]

How about poison Sumac?

[patches]

Geesh, Patty, I'm not sure,  but I think you're probably too far west and north to have poison sumac!   

[Wrennie]

Too many leaves to be poision oak. Not a sumac. Its redder than what I have here but it looks like box elder.