Name: Fraxinus pennsylvanica             Marsh	Description: Family:   Growth Form: Medium tree up to 60 feet tall; trunk diameter up to 2 1/2 feet; crown broadly rounded, with slender, spreading branches.   Stems: Light or dark gray, with diamond-shaped furrows between flat-topped, sometimes scaly, ridges. Leaves:  Opposite, pinnately compound, with 7-9 leaflets; leaflets lance-shaped to elliptic, long-pointed at the tip, tapering to the base, up to 6 inches long and one-and-one-half inches wide, toothed along the edges, green and smooth on both surfaces. The leaflets turn reddish-brown or yellowish in the autumn. Flower Arrangement:   Flowers:  Staminate and pistallate flowers borne on separate trees, in branched clusters, appearing as the leaves begin to unfold, small, purplish, without petals. Petals: None Stamens:  . Pistil:  Fruits: Lance-shaped or reversely lance-shaped, winged fruits, usually rounded at the tip, up to 2 1/2 inches long and less than one-third inch broad, with a single seed at the base.	Discussion: The Green Ash is often used for interior finishing, tool handles, baseball bats, and is sometimes grown as an ornamental. It's distinguishing feature is that the Green Ash has leaflets which are green on both surfaces.
Image:	Location: Habitat:  Bottomland forests. Range: Maine across to Saskatchewan and Minnesota, south to Texas, east to Florida.	Waypoint:  N 38 degrees 34.755 minutes W 89 degrees 04.146 minutes Elevation 475 feet

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