Flower Notes:
Insignificant greenish male and female flowers appear in April-May
Foliage Notes:
Large compound leaves, each with 7-9 elliptic leaflets that are yellowish-green to green above and pale-hairy beneath. Leaves turn bronze to purple red in fall.
Stem Notes:
Newest stems and twigs are densely hairy.
Fruit Notes:
On female trees, winged samaras mature in August-October in drooping clusters.
Soil Notes:
Best grown in consistently moist to wet loams. No tolerance for dry soils.
Range:
New York to Missouri south to Florida and Louisiana, pumpkin ash is most often found growing in moist to wet locations in swamps, floodplains, wet bottomlands, river valleys and low areas, especially along the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers from southern Indiana south to central Arkansas and on the southeastern coastal plain from southern Virginia to the Florida panhandle.
