| Scientific Name: | Fraxinus excelsior |
| Common Name: | common ash, European ash |
| Family Name: | Oleaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 22 - 30m x 15 - 25m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading, Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Fall interest, Specimen plant, Street (boulevard tree), Tall background, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Odd-pinnate, Elliptic, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Flowers clustered, Green, Purple, Pink, Red, Dark-red, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Samara, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Tree stout; branches grey; leaves opposite, pinnately compound, 25-30cm long; leaflets (7-)9 or 11(-13) per leaf, ovate-lanceolate-oblong, most 5-10cm long x 2-3cm wide, margin serrate, sessile; flowers tiny, purple, April-May; samaras 2.5-4.5 cm long x 5-8 mm wide. Winter ID: buds like fuzzy dark 'chocolate chips' to nearly black, mostly rounded, about 5mm long, bases of end buds may touch the pointy terminal bud, leaf scar crescent shaped to half-round with a notch for the bud; vein scars are very numerous in a crescent or U-shaped line. | |