Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
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Oleaceae | Fraxinus albicans | Texas Ash | Limestone slopes and bluffs. | Sc. OK south to sc. TX. | |
Oleaceae | Fraxinus americana | White Ash, American Ash | Mesic slopes, rich cove forests. | NS west to MN, south to n. peninsular FL and TX. | |
Oleaceae | Fraxinus berlandierana | Mexican Ash, Berlandier Ash, Rio Grande Ash, Fresno | Along streams. | Native of sc. OK south to s. TX, has been reported as naturalized in s. MS and e. LA (Kartesz 2010), but these records may be merely based on cultivated individuals (Nesom 2010h). | |
Oleaceae | Fraxinus biltmoreana | Biltmore Ash, Biltmore White Ash | Mesic slopes, rich cove forests, dry calcareous or mafic glades and woodlands (with Juniperus virginiana and Carya glabra), calcareous hammocks. | NJ, OH, and IL south to n. peninsular FL, c. AL, c. MS, and LA. | |
Oleaceae | Fraxinus caroliniana | Water Ash, Pop Ash, Carolina Ash | Deeply to shallowly flooded swamps, both alluvial and tidal. | Se. MD south to n. FL, west to TX, primarily on the Coastal Plain. | |
Oleaceae | Fraxinus cubensis | Florida Water Ash, Cuban Water Ash | Sloughs, ponds, other deeply flooded sites. | N. peninsular FL (Marion and Citrus counties), south to s. FL; Cuba. | |
Oleaceae | Fraxinus excelsior | European Ash | Disturbed areas. | Native of Europe. Sparingly planted and naturalized in ne. US, south to KY and s. NJ. | |
Oleaceae | Fraxinus nigra | Black Ash | Seepage swamps and mountain streambanks, on calcareous or mafic substrates. | NL (Newfoundland) and QC west to MB, south to DE, VA, IN, and IA. | |
Oleaceae | Fraxinus pauciflora | Swamp White Ash | Deep swamps. | S. GA south to n. peninsular FL. | |
Oleaceae | Fraxinus pennsylvanica | Green Ash, Red Ash | Bottomlands and swamps, especially along brownwater rivers and streams, rarely on mesic upland disturbed sites. | NS west to AB, south to FL, TX, and CO. | |
Oleaceae | Fraxinus profunda | Pumpkin Ash | Swamps, especially along blackwater rivers and streams and in freshwater tidal wetlands (as along the James, Pamunkey, Mattaponi, and Rappahannock rivers in e. VA), also in brownwater bottomlands; common (rare in Piedmont and Mountains). | S. NJ south to n. FL, west to LA, mostly on the Coastal Plain, north in the interior to w. NC, sc. TN, e. AR, se. MO, s. IL, IN, OH, sc. MI, ne. PA, and w. NY. | |
Oleaceae | Fraxinus quadrangulata | Blue Ash | Mesic to dry calcareous woodlands and forests. | S. ON west to s. MI and e. KS, south to sw. VA, e. TN, nw. GA, n. AL, and OK. | |
Oleaceae | Fraxinus smallii | Small’s White Ash | Bottomland forests, alluvial woods, river bluffs, upland hardwood forests, oak-pine forests. | PA, MI, IA, and KS south to Panhandle FL and e. TX. |
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