Eastern Wahoo, Burning Bush, Spindle Tree Scientific Name: Euonymus atropurpureus
Description: A slender shrub, sometimes a small tree 6-12 and occasionally 25' high, when growing in an advantageous situation. Bark dark gray roughened with perpendicular ridges through vertical splitting, the branchlets are often four-sided.
Habitat: Commonly cultivated.
Range: Indigenous from western New York west through Michigan, to Nebraska and the upper Missouri River in Montana, and south to northern Florida, southern Arkansas and Oklahoma.
Type: Shrub Source:Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs by F. Schuyler Mathews
Photograph: Paul Wray, Iowa State University from www.forestryimages.org. |
