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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Fraxinus pennsylvanica   FAMILY Oleaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Fraxinus pennsylvanica   FAMILY Oleaceae

INCLUDING VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 153-01-004:

Fraxinus pennsylvanica +   FAMILY Oleaceae

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Fraxinus darlingtonii

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Fraxinus pennsylvanica

 

COMMON NAME:
Green Ash, Red Ash


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image of Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Green Ash, Red Ash

Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) (Sargent, 1905)    mtna_i_878

        

image of Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Green Ash, Red Ash

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_frda_001_lvd

        

image of Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Green Ash, Red Ash

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_frpe_001_lvd

        

image of Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Green Ash, Red Ash

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_frpe_009_lvd

        

image of Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Green Ash, Red Ash

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_f_pennsylvanica

March        

image of Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Green Ash, Red Ash

JK Marlow    jkm0504c_19

April    Greenville County    SC

Roadside

image of Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Green Ash, Red Ash

JK Marlow    jkm0504u_05

April    Greenville County    SC

Roadside

Flowers [male pictured] individually inconspicuous but in prominent clusters, per Trees of the Southeastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1988).

image of Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Green Ash, Red Ash

JK Marlow    jkm120424_504

April    Pickens County    SC

Jocassee Gorges

Top margin of leaf scar shallowly notched to nearly straight, per Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004).


click here to see other plants that look similar to this COMPARE leaf scars of Ash species

image of Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Green Ash, Red Ash

Sam Pratt    sbp_043022_1489

April    Spartanburg County    SC

Pearson's Falls

D-shaped beetle exit holes: Emerald ash borer threatens America's ash trees as well as fringetree.

image of Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Green Ash, Red Ash

Sam Pratt    sbp_043022_1490

April    Spartanburg County    SC

Pearson's Falls

Don't move firewood! buy local, burn local. EAB larvae can survive hidden in the bark of firewood.

image of Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Green Ash, Red Ash

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmfpensylvanica_fc

May        

image of Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Green Ash, Red Ash

JK Marlow    jkm130628_330

June    Cherokee County    NC

Murphy River Walk

image of Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Green Ash, Red Ash

JK Marlow    jkm130628_331

June    Cherokee County    NC

Murphy River Walk

image of Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Green Ash, Red Ash

JK Marlow    jkm180601_2667

June    Greenville County    SC

Lake Conestee Nature Park

Note the two large "eye spots" on this click beetle (Alaus oculatus).

image of Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Green Ash, Red Ash

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_f_pennsylvanica_1

June        

image of Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Green Ash, Red Ash

JK Marlow    jkm0307h_28

July    Oconee County    SC

Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District

Juvenile.

image of Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Green Ash, Red Ash

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_f_pennsylvanica_2

July        

Fruit very narrow, wing extending about half the length of elongate seed, per Woody Plants of the Blue Ridge (Lance).


click here to see other plants that look similar to this COMPARE samaras of Ash species

image of Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Green Ash, Red Ash

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_f_pennsylvanica_3

July        

image of Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Green Ash, Red Ash

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_f_pennsylvanica_4

August        

image of Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Green Ash, Red Ash

JK Marlow    s051008_a

October    Greenville County    SC

Roadside

Leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets, glabrous, green on both sides, per Woody Plants of the Blue Ridge (Lance).

image of Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Green Ash, Red Ash

JK Marlow    s051008_b

October    Greenville County    SC

Roadside

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Fraxinus pennsylvanica   FAMILY Oleaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Fraxinus pennsylvanica   FAMILY Oleaceae

INCLUDING VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 153-01-004:
Fraxinus pennsylvanica +   FAMILY Oleaceae

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Fraxinus darlingtonii

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Fraxinus pennsylvanica

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

579

Tree
Perennial
Usually dioecious

Habitat: Bottomlands and swamps, especially along brownwater rivers and streams, rarely on mesic upland disturbed sites, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common

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LEAVES:
Deciduous
Odd-pinnately compound: 7-11 leaflets
Opposite

FLOWER:
Spring
Radially symmetrical
4-merous
Synsepalous calyx, lobes obsolete or nearly so
Petals absent
Usually unisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Samara

 

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