Editing Fraxinus excelsior (section)

==Distribution==
''Fraxinus excelsior'' is native to [[Europe]] from northern [[Spain]] to [[Russia]], and from southern [[Fennoscandia]] to northern [[Greece]].<ref name="Thomas-2016"/> It is also considered native in southwestern [[Asia]] from northern [[Turkey]] east to the [[Caucasus]] and [[Alborz]] mountains. The northernmost naturally occurring location is in the [[Trondheimsfjord]] region of [[Norway]], though they are planted further north.<ref name="Rushforth-1999"/> The species is widely cultivated and reportedly naturalized in [[New Zealand]] and in scattered locales in the [[United States]] and [[Canada]] including [[Nova Scotia]], [[New Brunswick]], [[Quebec]], [[Massachusetts]], [[Connecticut]], [[New York (state)|New York]], [[New Jersey]], [[Maryland]], [[Ontario]], [[Ohio]], [[Kentucky]] and [[British Columbia]].{{citation needed|date=March 2016}}

It is native throughout Britain and Ireland, particularly on limestone, as in northern Scotland, where the most northerly native ashwood in Britain occurs on limestone at [[Ardarroch|Rassal Ashwood]].<ref name="Stiven-2004"/> It is widely planted elsewhere.<ref name="BRC_BSBI">{{cite web |title=Online atlas of the British and Irish Flora, ''Fraxinus excelsior'' (Ash) |url=https://www.brc.ac.uk/plantatlas/index.php?q=plant/fraxinus-excelsior |publisher=Biological Records Centre and Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20211201165946/https://www.brc.ac.uk/plantatlas/index.php?q=plant/fraxinus-excelsior| archive-date=1 December 2021 }}</ref>