Georgia's ecosystem is beautiful, diverse, and sometimes deadly. Here are six plants to avoid if you find them in your yard or in the woods.

Poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac plants have a type of oil in their leaves, stems, roots, and fruit called urushiol. If you are sensitive to it, which most people are, you can get a rash on ...

What is poison sumac? Poison ivy and oak are fairly popular, but one that gets less mentioned is poison sumac. It also has urushiol oil causing rashes on contact. Poison sumac has 7-13 leaves found in ...

A relative to poison ivy, poison sumac is a flowering shrub or woody plant that contains the same oil. However, it is considered more allergenic, causing a very inflamed, painful and itchy rash.

Poison ivy, oak and sumac all can create itchy rashes from urushiol. What you need to know before the rash starts.

Dr. Jana Watts offers tip for saying safe this summer from illness and injury and knowing where to go for help if something ...

Poison sumac thrives in swampy or marsh-like areas, especially near rivers. It grows as a tall shrub or small tree and can reach heights over 15 feet. Its leaves are smooth-edged and arranged in pairs ...

Poison sumac thrives in wet, swampy regions in the Northeast, Midwest and parts of the Southeast U.S. Leaves of a poison sumac plant have clusters of seven to 13 smooth leaflets arranged in pairs ...

While those shiny green leaves lining the base of a tree might look harmless, poison ivy isn't anything to mess around with, especially when the results of touching it are an itchy red rash that ...