Habitat: Swamps, along rivers.
Range: South Carolina across to Kansas, south to Texas, east to Florida.
Distinguishing Features: Swamp Privet is distinguished by its opposite, pointed leaves which are finely toothed along the edges.
WHITE ASH
Fraxinus americana L.
Growth Form: Large tree up to 100 feet tall; trunk diameter up to 4 feet; crown pyramidal or ovoid, with slender branches; trunk straight, columnar.
Bark: Light or dark gray, with diamond-shaped furrows between flat-topped, sometimes scaly, ridges.
Twigs: Slender, gray or brown, sometimes with a few hairs; leaf scars opposite, horseshoe-shaped, with several bundle traces forming a half-moon.
Buds: Rounded, dark brown, finely hairy, up to ½ inch long.
Leaves: Opposite, pinnately compound, with 5-9 leaflets; leaflets lance-shaped to lance-ovate, often curved, pointed at the tip, rounded or tapering to the base, up to 5 inches long and about half as broad, shallowly toothed along the edges, green and smooth on the upper surface, paler and smooth or hairy on the lower surface.