My husband brushed up against it, and it "trashed" his forearm. It has been 10 days and the arm is still red and sore and peeling. I have looked into poison ivy, oak, and sumac, and none match. Thanks!
I have "cow itch" by my fence row and it don't look anything like that..I think it's a wood rose, can't really tell. cow itch don't have stems like that. It's kinda viny with little hairs on the stems. the best remedy is a weed that is known around here as hollow weed. gets little pods on it that explode when you touch them. cut the stem open and rub it on the itch and it clears up all but right away.
Wow, this is fascinating. Thank you all. To answer a few, we are in the White Mountains in northeastern Arizona. We have Virginia Creeper on our fence, so I don't think it is that. He felt it within a minute of brushing up against the plant. And it burned; no itch.
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Looks like a creosote bush...but the closeup of the leaves are different. Very serrated and dentate and glossy. The creosote pics I've seen don't look like this.
Multi-floral rose. Your husband has to get all the thorns out before his arm will heal. My uncle almost lost an arm over this bush once. This bush was planted to help the farmers with their cattle. Go to doctor now, or as soon as possible!
Spent some more time resarching natives in your area and the leaf definitely indicates a type of Mountain Mahogany shrub which can be toxic. Here is a good link I found for info and pictures. It's a Texas reference but the shrub grows in the west and south west: http://essmextension.tamu.edu/plants/toxics/...
I can tell you for certain that it's not raspberry; it's not a rose--multiflora or otherwise; it's not stinging nettles; it's not Virginia Creeper; it's not creosote bush; and it's not poison oak! Check with the Forest Service or someone at the County Extension offices in your area and then you'll know for sure. I would guess it might be Mountain Mahogany but I'm not familiar enough with AZ fauna, so why second guess? Good luck.
I'll thinking it is a "bog birch"
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