Black Ash Fraxinus nigra

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The Black Ash has a tall trunk with a fairly uniform diameter up to the branches. The soft, ash-gray bark is fissured into scaly plates, which easily can be reduced to powder by rubbing. The Black Ash is a tree of wet places. It favors the wet soils of cold swamps, peat bogs, and stream bottoms that periodically are flooded. This is a northern tree, the most northern of the ash trees.

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