Family:
Oleaceae
Foliage:
n/a
Native Locale:
Nova Scotia to Manitoba, south to northern Florida and Texas
Mature Height:
50 to 60 feet
Mature Width:
25 to 30 feet
Hardiness Zones:
Zone (2b)3 to 9
Soil Preference:
Extremely adaptable once established can withstand salt, drought, wind, and sterile soils; commonly found on moist bottomlands
Growth Habit:
Softly pyramidal when young, developing an upright-spreading habit at maturity with 3 to 5 main branches and many coarse, twiggy branchlets which bend down and then up at the ends;
Rate of Growth:
Fast, 2 to 3' per year in the landscape over a 10 year period
Disease and Insect:
Leaf rust, leaf spots, cankers, dieback ash borer, lilac leaf miner, lilac borer, carpenter worm, brown headed ash sawfly, fall ebworm, ash flower gall
Landscape Value:
n/a
Additional Notes:
n/a
