Near Ramah in Cibola County, New Mexico — The American Mountains (Southwest)

Lemonade Sumac

Rhus trilobata

Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, May 20, 2016

1. Lemonade Sumac Marker

Inscription. Also known as squawbush, this aromatic shrub is a member of the same plant family that includes poison ivy, cashews, pistachios, and mangos. The stems of this plant have been used by Native Americans for many years in basketmaking, while the tart berries have been used to flavor a fruit drink. Dried berries were used as an ingredient of pemmican, and along with leaves and twigs form an important wildlife browse.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Indigenous Peoples and Communities.

Location. 35° 2.431′ N, 108° 21.076′ W. Marker is near Ramah, New Mexico, in Cibola County. It can be reached from El Morro National Monument Road 0.9 miles Ice Caves Road (State Highway 53). Marker is located along the Inscription interpretive trail, about ¼ mile from the El Morro National Monument Visitor Center. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Ramah NM 87321, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in New Mexico’s Navajo Nation

and in the San Juan Basin.

It is also in the American Southwest

and in Colorado Plateau.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Oasis (within shouting distance of this marker); Preserving Our Heritage (about 600 feet away, measured in a direct line); Monumental Changes (approx. 0.2 miles away); Atsinna (approx. 0.2 miles away); Visitors Through the Ages (approx.

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half a mile away); Welcome to El Morro (approx. ¾ mile away); El Morro National Monument Inscription Rock (approx. ¾ mile away); Matilda Coxe Stevenson (1849-1915) / New Mexico Historic Women Marker Initiative (approx. 1.9 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Ramah.

Also see . . . Rhus trilobata (Wikipedia). Grows in many types of plant communities, such as the grasslands east of the Rocky Mountains, mountainous shrubland, pine, juniper, and fir forests, wetlands, oak woodlands, and chaparral. The plant is destroyed above ground but rarely killed by wildfire, and will readily sprout back up in burned areas. The Zuni people, Navajo, Mono tribe of California and tribes in the area use the stems with the bark removed to make baskets. (Submitted on December 24, 2020, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.)

Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, May 20, 2016

2. Lemonade Sumac Marker

Lemonade Sumac (<i>beside marker</i>) image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, May 20, 2016

3. Lemonade Sumac (beside marker)

Credits. This page was last revised on December 24, 2020. It was originally submitted on December 24, 2020, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida. This page has been viewed 313 times since then and 15 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on December 24, 2020, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.