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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Fraxinus profunda
FAMILY
Oleaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Fraxinus profunda
FAMILY
Oleaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 153-01-003:
Fraxinus tomentosa FAMILY Oleaceae
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Fraxinus michauxii
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Fraxinus profunda
COMMON NAME:
Pumpkin Ash
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Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) (Sargent, 1905) mtna_i_877
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_frmi2_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_frpr_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_frpr_004_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Fraxinus profunda
FAMILY
Oleaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Fraxinus profunda
FAMILY
Oleaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 153-01-003:
Fraxinus tomentosa
FAMILY
Oleaceae
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Fraxinus michauxii
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Fraxinus profunda
2571
Tree
Perennial
Usually dioecious
Habitat: 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), per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Carolina Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
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LEAVES:
Deciduous
Odd-pinnately compound: 7-9 leaflets
Opposite
FLOWER:
Spring
Radially symmetrical
4-merous
Synsepalous calyx, lobes obsolete or nearly so
Petals absent
Usually unisexual
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Samara
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide (Kirkman, Brown, & Leopold, 2007) p255
- Trees of the Southeastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1988) p059
- Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004) p146
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