This has been the most common cultivar of White Ash grown by nurseries and planted in landscapes in much of the Midwest and East. It develops an excellent glossy purple-red autumn color and makes a good pyramidal-oval outline. I am concerned that so many White Ash trees are of this one cultivar that the genetic diversity is limited, so if a problem comes along, there is a situation of "having all of ones eggs in one basket." Here in southeast Pennsylvania through 2018, this cultivar and other White Ashes were doing well but the Emerald Ash Borer started killing many in 2019-2021. A few that were treated with systemic insecticide lived on and so did some that were isolated and often surrounded by other tree species. I know of several still surviving in 2023 in southeast PA. The borer did its same nasty work in my native northeast Illinois about 6 years earlier.

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A fast growing ash tree. This entire subcategory of trees is under attack all across the nation by the Emerald Ash Borer, so you won't see too many of them anymore. Trees that are not being eaten by the borer are being chopped down by municipalities to prevent the spread, which is a shame as this is such a beautiful tree.

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