#253 most planted
Fraxinus nigra
Black ash · also Swamp ash, Water ash, Brown ash
6,227
trees mapped
0.06%
of all named trees
19
cities
7.5 in
median trunk (19 cm, 6,209 measured)
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Fraxinus nigra, also known as black ash, is native to eastern Canada and the northeastern United States. This species is currently critically endangered due to the invasive emerald ash borer.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 4,0881.3%—7.9 in
- 8440.18%—9.1 in
- 7040.13%—3.1 in
- 2160.48%—12 in
- 1000.03%25 yr3.5 in
- 830.03%—3.1 in
- 510.01%—8.5 in
- 320.01%—9.0 in
- 220.01%—16 in
- 190.02%—3.5 in
- 150.01%—7.2 in
- 140.02%—4.7 in
- 120.10%—17 in
- 110.00%—14 in
- 80.01%7.5 yr8.4 in
- 30.00%—5.9 in
- 30.02%——
- 10.00%—10 in
- 10.00%—2.0 in
Native range
Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
- New England-Acadian forests
Other Fraxinus in the catalogue
20 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.
