RED ASH (Fraxinua Pennsylvanica, Marsh). A small, spreading tree, 40 to 60 feet high, with irregular, compact head of twiggy branches. Bark reddish, closely furrowed, scaly; young twigs pubescent. Buds small, dark brown, nodes close together. Leaves 10 to 12 inches long, of 7 to 9 leaflets, lanceolate, coarsely serrate, on short stalks, smooth, yellow green above, silvery pubescence on petioles and leaf linings; yellow in fall. Flowers May, with leaves; dicecious, in hairy panicles; pistillate greenish, inconspicuous. Fruit
slmider, clustered keys, 1 to 2 inches long, on hairy stems; wing 1 inch long and extending halfway around the body. Preferred habitat, moist soil near streams or lakes. Dist.: New Brunswick to Ontario and the Black Hills in Dakota; south to Florida, Alabama, and Nebraska. Uses: Inferior to white ash in all ways. Often planted in eastern United States for shade and ornament.