If you are anywhere in California and start to hike the trails, especially with your dogs you can get it easily now until fall especially from their coats or noses or from petting their heads when they stick their noses into poison oak bushes which are very green this time of year after the rains in December and January even though we are moving into a drought it looks like for this year unless something remarkable happens between now and May 2020.
So, be sure to protect yourselves not only from poison oak but also from your pets. Dogs don't usually get it only bare skinned folks like us. So, unless your dog is shaved or bald they likely cannot get poison oak because their fur protects them from it. It has to contact bare skin to become a problem for dogs. But, since we are mostly bare skinned it is an ongoing problem for humans.'
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- Spring: During the spring months, poison oak can be very green with varying amounts of red on the leaves, or no red on the leaves at all. ...
- Summer: During the summer the buds of the poison oak have bloomed and are greenish and white.
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Apr 29, 2013
Look carefully at the leaves which are sort of rounded but not jagged and look sort of oily and this time are completely green but in late summer and fall turn very red which some people think is pretty. But, stay away from it if you know what's good for you.
Here's more what it looks like a one of the fall colors:
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