Wood: Hard, strong, heavy, coarse-grained, pale brown.
Uses: Tool handles, interior finishing, furniture.
Habitat: Bottomland forests.
Range: Nova Scotia across to North Dakota, south to Kansas, east to Louisiana and northern Florida.
Distinguishing Features: Red Ash is characterized by its hairy leaf stalks and its narrow wings along the stalks between the leaflets.
GREEN ASH
Fraxinus pennsylvanica Marsh var. subintegerrima (Vahl) Fern.
Growth Form: Medium tree up to 60 feet tall; trunk diameter up to 2½ feet; crown broadly rounded, with slender, spreading branches.
Bark: Light or dark gray, with diamond-shaped furrows between flat-topped, sometimes scaly, ridges.
Twigs: Slender to rather stout, gray or brown, smooth; leaf scars half-round and straight across the top, with several bundle traces forming a half-moon.