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Sumac as nitrogen fixer?

 
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I can only find sparse info online as to whether or not the sumacs (staghorn, winged, etc) are nitrogen fixers. There’s like one paper from China that says in temperate climates it acts as one but not in warmer climates.
 
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Sumacs have many great attributes, being native plants, good for bees and birds, great for erosion control, tolerant of poor soils and prolonged drought, and no real pests.

Their pretty look and spreading habits may be too bold for some.

I have never heard of them as being nitrogen fixers.

Most folks do not understand nitrogen fixers, it is not planting them though to be a nitrogen fixers them are trimmed so that their trimming go back into the soil ...
 
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Anne Miller wrote:

Most folks do not understand nitrogen fixers, it is not planting them though to be a nitrogen fixers them are trimmed so that their trimming go back into the soil ...



I was under the impression that a nitrogen fixer takes nitrogen from the atmosphere and fixes it to the soil while nitrogen accumulators take atmospheric nitrogen into the plant itself for chop and drop.
 
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You are spot on.  
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