Green Ash
Fraxinus pennsylvanica
Plantae
CRITICALLY ENDANGERED
Stats
- Lifespan
- 60-100 yrs
- Size
- Large
- Diet
- Photosynthetic
- Biome
- Temperate forest
- Range
- North America
- Movement
- Sessile
- Breeding
- Seeds
- Defense
- Armor
- Status
- Critically Endangered
About
This deciduous tree grows in moist soils across much of North America. Its compound leaves rotate their blades to track the sun throughout the day.
Life cycle
- 1.seedA dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
- 2.sproutA first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
- 3.saplingA young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
- 4.matureFully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Lamiales
- Family
- Oleaceae
- Genus
- Fraxinus
- Species
- Fraxinus pennsylvanica