Gregg's Ash
Fraxinus greggii
Gregg's ash is a small, fine-textured evergreen-tending ash of Southwestern limestone canyons, well suited to xeric gardens. Far more drought-adapted than its large cousins, though still an emerald ash borer host.
- Family
- Oleaceae
- Type
- tree
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 15–25 ft
- Spacing
- 10–20 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- March, April
- Bloom colors
- green, purple
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, larval host, pollinators
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~149 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- specimen, hedge or screen
- Native states
- TX