White Ash

Growth habit

Tree

Perennation

Long-lived polycarpic perennial

Native distribution

Native to the Finger Lakes Region, Nova Scotia to MN, South to FL and TX

Location

Mundy Wildflower Garden, Urban Tree Collection, Pinetum, Bald Hill and Caroline Pinnacles, Coy Glen, Edwards Lake Cliffs Preserve, Fischer Old-growth Forest, McDaniel Meadow, Woods, and Swamp, McLean Bogs, Eames Bog, Salt Road Fen, Purvis Road Wetlands Natural Area, Ringwood Ponds, South Hill Swamp, Tarr-Young Preserve

Source of plant

Ron Lance, Edmund Pfeifer, Arborvillage Farm Nursery

Description

Tree reaching 50' to 80' in height (to 120') with spread of similar proportions. Weakly pyramidal toupright-oval in youth, in old age developing an open and rather round-topped crown. Bark ashy-gray togray-brown, furrowed into close diamond-shaped areas separated by narrow interlacing ridges; on very old trees slightly scaly along the ridges. Fall color yellow to deep purple and maroon; color develops early. Flowers dioecious (possibly polygamo-dioecious), usually unisexual, green to purple, apetalous, both sexes appearing in panicles before or with the leaves, not ornamentally important, calyx minute, campanulate, corolla absent; borne in April.

USDA Hardiness Zone

3

Special characteristics

fall color

Status

L4|S5|G5