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Taxon: Fraxinus pennsylvanica Marshall

Genus: Fraxinus section: Melioides
Family: Oleaceae tribe: Oleeae.
Nomen number: 306
Place of publication: Arbust. amer. 51. 1785
Name verified on: 08-May-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 28-Aug-2008
Species priority site is: North Central Regional PI Station (NC7).
Accessions: 251 in National Plant Germplasm System.
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Common names:

  • downy ash   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  • green ash   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  • red ash   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  • pennsylvanische Esche   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – German

Economic importance:

  • Environmental: shade/shelter   (fide F Eur; AH 519)
  • Materials: wood   (timber fide AH 519)
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Distributional range:

      Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
  • NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
    Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec [s.]
    Western Canada: Canada - Alberta [s.e.], Manitoba, Saskatchewan [s.]
    Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
    North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin
    Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado [n.e.], Montana, Wyoming [n.e.]
    Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
    South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas

References:

  • Clark, R. C. 1971. The woody plants of Alabama. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 58:228.
  • Englert, J. M. et al. 1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators. (NRCS Cons Pl Mat)
  • Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage. (Zander ed16)
  • Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2. (Glea Cron ed2)
  • Jones, G. N. & G. D. Fuller. 1955. Vascular plants of Illinois. (F IllJones)
  • Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
  • Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976). (Krussmann)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • Little, E. L., Jr. 1978. Important forest trees of the United States. (AH 519)
  • Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541. (Trees US)
  • McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains. (F GPlains)
  • Miller, G. N. 1955. The genus Fraxinus, the ashes, in North America, north of Mexico. Mem. Cornell Univ. Agric. Exp. Sta. 335:36–41.
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
  • Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Fraxinus pennsylvanica Marshall:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

More:
  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?306 (09 February 2010)

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