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Fraxinus americana



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Fraxinus americana
American ash

Opposite and pinnately compound, the 8-15" long leaves have between 5 and 9 entire or remotely serrate leaflets. Borne on short 1/2" long petiolules, the ovate-lanceolate leaflets are 2-6" long with a glaucous underside.

 
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