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Home  /  Plants  /  Budburst Species  /  Fraxinus americana
Phenology Observation Sheet for Deciduous Trees and Shrubs

COMMON NAME

White ash

SCIENTIFIC NAME

Fraxinus americana

ALSO KNOWN AS

American ash

Plant family

Olive (Oleaceae)

Plant group

Deciduous Trees and Shrubs

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Louisville Slugger baseball bats are made out of white ash wood.
DISTRIBUTION IN TH U.S.
Alabama , Arkansas , Colorado , Connecticut , Delaware , Florida , Georgia , Iowa , Illinois , Indiana , Kansas , Kentucky , Louisiana , Massachusetts , Maryland , Maine , Michigan , Minnesota , Missouri , Mississippi , North Carolina , Nebraska , New Hampshire , New Jersey , New York , Ohio , Oklahoma , Pennsylvania , Rhode Island , South Carolina , Tennessee , Texas , Virginia , Vermont , Wisconsin , West Virginia
HABITAT
There is no information available about this species.
ATTRIBUTES
Leaves
Leaves of the white ash are pinnately compound with 7 oval to oblong-lanceolate leaflets. The leaflets are dark green on their upper side and a whiter green below. The leaves turn yellow with purple shading in fall.
Flowers
White ash is primarily dioecious meaning it has separate male and female trees. Clusters of purplish male and female flowers appear on these separate trees in late spring and do not have petals.
Fruits
Fertilized female flowers produce drooping clusters of winged samaras that ripen in fall and may still be found on the tree throughout winter.
Bark
White ash has gray bark that develops a distinctive diamond-shaped ridging when trees are mature.
Bloom Time
April to May

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