Know Your Deer Plants: Devil’s Walking Stick
Aralia spinosa, or devil’s walking stick, is a moderate to highly preferred deer browse from the ginseng family (Araliaceae) found throughout the southeastern United States that also goes by several other common names, including prickly ash, Hercules club and toothache tree, among others. The trouble is these same common names are also used to describe a woody plant in the citrus family (Rutaceae), which can be heavily browsed by deer as well and found in some of the same areas. Zanthoxylum clava-herculis overlaps... read more
by Matt Ross on May 16, 2012
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