Identification

Size: This tree usually has a slender stem, and may reach 60 to 80 feet in height

Range: from New Foundland to Manitoba, south to Virginia and Arkansas. It is common in low or wet soils across New York and westward to Lake Erie. It is rare south of the Hudson highlands

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Leaves: opposite, 10 to 14 inches long, compound, with 7 to 11 leaflets. Leaflets are 3 to 5 inches long, finely-toothed along margins, stalkless except the terminal one

Flowers: similar to those of White Ash

Fruit: winged seed similar to that of White Ash, but broader, winged, notched at the apex, the wing completely surrounding flat seed

Bark: thin, grayish, very shallowly furrowed, peels off in powdery or corky fine scales

Twigs: smooth, stout, light-gray

Buds are opposite, black, sharp pointed

Wood is soft, rather coarse-grained, with white sapwood and dark brown heartwood, used for baskets, hoops, furniture, interior finishings

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Champion Trees and Ancient Forests — www.championtrees.org — updated: 7/14/2002