Devil's walking stick
NativeAralia spinosa
Ginseng (Araliaceae) · Small tree · 10–25 ft
Knowing it
A spiny single stem topped by enormous compound leaves and a cloud of white summer flowers. Moist woods in the Ozarks and southeast.
What a tree company sees
Spines everywhere; suckers into thickets.
Recorded in 16 counties
- Bollinger County
- Boone County
- Butler County
- Cape Girardeau County
- Dunklin County
- Franklin County
- Howell County
- Perry County
- Ripley County
- Scott County
- Shannon County
- St. Louis City
- St. Louis County
- Ste. Genevieve County
- Stoddard County
- Wayne County
From GBIF occurrence records. No record does not mean absent.