Fraxinus Pennsylvanica, Var. Lanceolata, Sarg
Fraxinus Viridis, Michx. F. Fraxinus Lanceolata, Borkh
Green Ash
River valleys and wet woods.
Ontario to Saskatchewan.
Maine,—common along the Penobscot river from Oldtown to Bangor; Vermont,—along Lake Champlain; Gardner’s island, and the north end of South Hero; Rhode Island (Bailey); Connecticut,—frequent (J. N. Bishop, Report of Connecticut Board of Agriculture, 1895).
South along the mountains to Florida; west to the Rocky mountains.
The claims to specific distinction rest mainly upon the usual absence of pubescence from the young shoots, leaves and petioles, the color of the leaves (which is bright green above and scarcely less so beneath), the usually more distinct serratures above the center, and a rather more acuminate apex.
Apparently an extreme form of F. pubescens, connected with it by numerous intermediate forms through the entire range of the species.