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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Fraxinus profunda   FAMILY Oleaceae   Go to FSUS key



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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image of Fraxinus profunda, Pumpkin Ash

Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) (Sargent, 1905)    mtna_i_877

        

image of Fraxinus profunda, Pumpkin Ash

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_frmi2_001_lvd

        

image of Fraxinus profunda, Pumpkin Ash

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_frpr_001_lvd

        

image of Fraxinus profunda, Pumpkin Ash

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

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

 

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