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Characteristics
 Family-
Oleaceae--The Olive Family
- Origin
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Native NC
- Plant Description
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Deciduous tree to 30 feet; leaves opposite, once pinnately compound, mostly 5 or 7 leaflets, coarsely saw-toothed; flowers April to May before the leaves, sexes separate, on separate trees, small and nondescript; fruits maturing in early fall, a one-seeded, winged samara (1 1/4 to 2 inches long with broad wings extending to the base of the seed body) held in drooping clusters.
- Ornamental Characteristics
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Attractive light green leaves, large clusters of light greenish dangling fruits.
- Landscape Use
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Small tree for wet areas.
- Horticultural Cultivars
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None.
- Availability/Propagation
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Not available in nurseries; transplant seedlings from the wild (with permission), propagate from seed planted in fall.
- Culture
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Plant in full sun to partial shade in wet to saturated soils.
- Coastal Ecology
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Carolina ash is an Obligate Wetland species, found in swamps, along pond margins and in flatwoods depressions, where it often has several leaning trunks and a buttressed base. Locally very abundant as an understory member of Bald cypress-Swamp Tupelo swamps in the Coastal Plain.
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