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Common Name: Carolina Ash, Water Ash, Pop Ash
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Fraxinus caroliniana FAMILY: Oleaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Fraxinus caroliniana FAMILY: Oleaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Fraxinus caroliniana 153-01-001 FAMILY: Oleaceae
Habitat: Deeply to shallowly flooded swamps, both alluvial and tidal
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: White Ash, American Ash
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Fraxinus americana FAMILY: Oleaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Fraxinus americana FAMILY: Oleaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Fraxinus americana var. americana 153-01-002a FAMILY: Oleaceae
Habitat: Mesic slopes, rich cove forests
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Biltmore Ash, Biltmore White Ash
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Fraxinus biltmoreana FAMILY: Oleaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Fraxinus americana FAMILY: Oleaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Fraxinus americana var. biltmoreana 153-01-002b FAMILY: Oleaceae
Habitat: Mesic slopes, rich cove forests, dry calcareous or mafic glades and woodlands (with Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana and Carya glabra), calcareous hammocks
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Pumpkin Ash
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Fraxinus profunda FAMILY: Oleaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Fraxinus profunda FAMILY: Oleaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Fraxinus tomentosa 153-01-003 FAMILY: Oleaceae
Habitat: Swamps, especially along blackwater rivers and streams and in freshwater tidal wetlands (as along the James, Pamunkey, Mattaponi, and Rappahannock rivers in e. VA), also in brownwater bottomlands; common (rare in Piedmont and Mountains)
Common in Carolina Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Green Ash, Red Ash
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Fraxinus pennsylvanica FAMILY: Oleaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Fraxinus pennsylvanica FAMILY: Oleaceae
INCLUDING Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Fraxinus pennsylvanica + 153-01-004 FAMILY: Oleaceae
Habitat: Bottomlands and swamps, especially along brownwater rivers and streams, rarely on mesic upland disturbed sites
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Blue Ash
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Fraxinus quadrangulata FAMILY: Oleaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Fraxinus quadrangulata FAMILY: Oleaceae
Habitat: Mesic to dry calcareous woodlands and forests
Rare
Native to Georgia
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