Fraxinus pennsylvanica
green ash, red ash
Family
Oleaceae
Leaf Arrangement
opposite
Leaf Attachment
petiolate
Leaf Type
compound, odd-pinnate
Growth Form
shrub, tree
Flower Color
brown, green, purple
Flower Month
February - June
Height (meters)
25.0
Milky Sap
No
Armed/Unarmed
Unarmed
Origin
native
Lifespan
perennial
Leaf Retention
Deciduous
Wetland Class
FACW
Wetland Coefficient of Conservatism
7
Field Characters
5-7 leaflets, no hairs, unfolding leaves are rust colored. Terminal leaf acuminate, leaf underside green.
Habitat
Open woodlands, stream and river banks, lake margins, swamps, bottomland hardwood forests, ditches, ravines, depressions, alluvial soils of floodplain forests, savannas.