It is also found in bottomlands near streams and often on low slopes. Use The white ash is an important timber species that is prized as a source of wood, for handles, baseball bats and furniture. White ash is also planted as an ornamental because it is attractive, hardy and relatively free of diseases. It has small branches that form a somewhat rounded, narrow crown. Leaves Leaves are odd-pinnately compound, opposite, and deciduous.
Leaflet bases are wedge-shaped.
Leaflet margins are coarsely serrate. Leaf surfaces are dark green and glabrous above, paler below. Rachis are stout and circular in cross section. Fruit Fruit is a broad, flattened, oblong samara, 3-winged and up to 3 inches long. The seed is elliptical and completely surrounded by the wing.