Fraxinus profunda

pumpkin ash

SPECIES

1. KingdomPlantae
2. PhylumTracheophyta
3. ClassMagnoliopsida
4. OrderLamiales
5. FamilyOleaceae

Native toAlabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan

Observations991

Pumpkin ash is listed as a minor component of three forest cover types: Baldcypress (Society of American Foresters Type 101), Baldcypress-Tupelo (Type 102), and Water Tupelo-Swamp Tupelo (Type 103) (1). Other species associated with pumpkin ash are red maple (Acer rubrum) and silver maple (A. saccharinum), blackwillow (Salix nigra), Carolina ash (Fraxinus caroliniana), swamp cottonwood (Populus heterophylla), water-elm (Planera aquatica), and water locust (Gleditsia aquatica). On the better drained sites, overcup oak Quercus lyrata), swamp chestnut oak (Q. michauxii), willow oak (Q. phellos), water oak (Q. nigra), water hickory (Carya aquatica), American elm (Ulmus americana), green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica), Nuttall oak (Q. nuttallii) in the Mississippi River bottoms; laurel oak (Q. laurifolia), sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua), persimmon (Diospyros virginiana), and sweetbay (Magnolia uirginiana) are also present. Among the understory trees and shrubs commonly found in the deep swamps are buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis), swamp-privet (Forestiera acuminata), Virginia-willow (Itea virginica), swamp dogwood (Cornus stricta), swamp cyrilla (Cyrilla racemiflora), possumhaw

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🔬Museum specimens

Specimen records

1,246

With media

1,152

Family

Oleaceae

Collections

IBUNAM, MSC, CHSC, NY, CMN, MICH

Recorded in

United States, Canada

Wikidata facts

Instance of

taxon

Parent taxon

Fraxinus

Image

Fraxinus profunda, RBGE 2008.jpg

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