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§1 Plant
Fraxinus caroliniana Mill.
vernacular Carolina ash — species · Oleaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Oleaceae Hoffmanns. & Link
- Genus
- Fraxinus
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 255 counties across 10 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- Low
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 2 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 200 min.
- Precipitation
- 36–65 in/yr
- pH range
- 3.5–6
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 39 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 39 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Green
- Fruit colour
- Black
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 5,744
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Fuelwood
- Medium
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 255 counties across 10 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 59 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Baker 12003
- Bay 12005
- Bradford 12007
- Brevard 12009
- Calhoun 12013
- Charlotte 12015
- Citrus 12017
- Clay 12019
- Collier 12021
- Columbia 12023
- DeSoto 12027
- Dixie 12029
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Gilchrist 12041
- Glades 12043
- Gulf 12045
- Hamilton 12047
- Hardee 12049
- Hendry 12051
- Holmes 12059
- Jackson 12063
- Jefferson 12065
- Lafayette 12067
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Liberty 12077
- Madison 12079
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Monroe 12087
- Nassau 12089
- Okaloosa 12091
- Okeechobee 12093
- Orange 12095
- Osceola 12097
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- St. Johns 12109
- Sumter 12119
- Suwannee 12121
- Taylor 12123
- Union 12125
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
- Washington 12133
Georgia view state ↗ 37 N ▾
- Bacon 13005
- Baker 13007
- Berrien 13019
- Brantley 13025
- Brooks 13027
- Bulloch 13031
- Burke 13033
- Camden 13039
- Charlton 13049
- Chatham 13051
- Colquitt 13071
- Columbia 13073
- Crisp 13081
- Dodge 13091
- Echols 13101
- Glascock 13125
- Grady 13131
- Irwin 13155
- Jackson 13157
- Jasper 13159
- Jefferson 13163
- Lee 13177
- Liberty 13179
- Lowndes 13185
- Madison 13195
- McDuffie 13189
- McIntosh 13191
- Miller 13201
- Screven 13251
- Sumter 13261
- Tattnall 13267
- Thomas 13275
- Tift 13277
- Washington 13303
- Wayne 13305
- Wilkinson 13319
- Worth 13321
Louisiana view state ↗ 45 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Ascension 22005
- Assumption 22007
- Avoyelles 22009
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Jackson 22049
- Lafayette 22055
- Lincoln 22061
- Livingston 22063
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. James 22093
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Vernon 22115
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 9 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 37 N ▾
- Alexander 37003
- Anson 37007
- Beaufort 37013
- Bertie 37015
- Bladen 37017
- Brunswick 37019
- Catawba 37035
- Columbus 37047
- Craven 37049
- Cumberland 37051
- Duplin 37061
- Edgecombe 37065
- Gates 37073
- Greene 37079
- Halifax 37083
- Harnett 37085
- Hertford 37091
- Johnston 37101
- Jones 37103
- Lenoir 37107
- Martin 37117
- Moore 37125
- Nash 37127
- New Hanover 37129
- Northampton 37131
- Pamlico 37137
- Pasquotank 37139
- Pender 37141
- Perquimans 37143
- Pitt 37147
- Robeson 37155
- Sampson 37163
- Tyrrell 37177
- Union 37179
- Wake 37183
- Wayne 37191
- Wilson 37195
South Carolina view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Aiken 45003
- Bamberg 45009
- Barnwell 45011
- Berkeley 45015
- Charleston 45019
- Chesterfield 45025
- Clarendon 45027
- Colleton 45029
- Darlington 45031
- Dillon 45033
- Dorchester 45035
- Florence 45041
- Hampton 45049
- Horry 45051
- Jasper 45053
- Kershaw 45055
- Lee 45061
- Marion 45067
- Marlboro 45069
- Orangeburg 45075
- Richland 45079
- Sumter 45085
- Williamsburg 45089
Texas view state ↗ 9 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/FRCA3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3172339 ↗Record version
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