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Fun fact: Its resilience is legendary, as it readily colonizes some of the most challenging sites, from barren strip mines to rocky road cuts, where it acts as a nurse plant, creating sheltered microclimates that allow other species to eventually take root. When injured or cut down, it responds with vigorous vigor, sending up numerous new shoots from its extensive root system, a trait that makes it both a survivor of wildfires and a persistent presence in the landscape. While its fuzzy red berries are a well-known bird food, the plant's relationship with the Red-banded Hairstreak butterfly is far more unusual and intricate. This butterfly's caterpillars refuse to eat fresh green leaves, instead relying exclusively on the decaying, moldy leaves that have fallen to the ground beneath the sumac itself, a lifecycle tied to the plant's literal decomposition.🐛🐦