| Scientific Name: | Fraxinus americana |
| Common Name: | American ash, white ash |
| Family Name: | Oleaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin, U.S. - northeast |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 10 - 15m x 7 - 10m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical, Round |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract birds, Fall interest, Shade tree, Specimen plant, Street (boulevard tree), Tall background |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Odd-pinnate, Leaflets stalked, Lanceolate, Ovate, Crenate, Entire, Serrate, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | Flowers clustered, Green-yellow, Dark-red, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Samara, Green, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, pinnately compound, 19-35cm long, each with (5-)7(-9) leaflets, most ovate-lanceolate 5-9cm long x 3-5cm wide, margins entire (at least at base) to slightly serrate (at least midway to apex), wavy, scalloped, or with small teeth, most petiolules 3-5mm long (2-3 longer on the terminal leaflet); samaras 2.5-5cm long. Winter ID: buds rusty to dark chocolate brown with suede-like scalloped scales; leaf scar U-shaped with the lateral bud sitting deep in the notch; vascular bundle scars are very numerous in a U-shaped line. | |