Plants Profile for Ailanthus altissima (tree of heaven)

General Information
Symbol:	AIAL
Group:	Dicot
Family:	Simaroubaceae
Duration:	Perennial
Growth Habit:	Tree
Native Status:	CAN I HI I L48 I
Characteristics
Data Source and Documentation

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	Native		Introduced		Both		Absent/Unreported
	Native, No County Data		Introduced, No County Data		Both, No County Data

Native Status:

L48

NAV

CAN

SPM

Images

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Provided by USDA Forest Service. Usage Requirements.

Steve Hurst. Provided by ARS Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory. Usage Requirements.

Patrick J. Alexander. Usage Requirements.

W.D. Brush. Provided by National Agricultural Library. Originally from USDA Forest Service. United States, DC, Washington. 1960. Usage Requirements.

W.D. Brush. Provided by National Agricultural Library. Originally from USDA Forest Service. United States, MD. Usage Requirements.

Provided by National Agricultural Library. Originally from USDA Forest Service. United States, AL, Auburn Univeristy Campus, Library. 1983. Usage Requirements.

Provided by National Agricultural Library. Originally from USDA Forest Service. United States, DC, Washington, 616 6th St. N.W. 1934. Usage Requirements.

Doug Goldman. Provided by USDA NRCS National Plants Data Team (NPDT). United States, VA, Bedford Co. July 16, 2011. Usage Requirements.

Doug Goldman. Provided by USDA NRCS National Plants Data Team (NPDT). United States, NC, Guilford Co., Greensboro. June 27, 2012. Usage Requirements.

Doug Goldman. Provided by USDA NRCS National Plants Data Team (NPDT). United States, NC, Guilford Co., Greensboro. May 12, 2012. Usage Requirements.

Doug Goldman. Provided by USDA NRCS National Plants Data Team (NPDT). United States, NC, Guilford Co., Greensboro. August 21, 2011. Usage Requirements.

Doug Goldman. Provided by USDA NRCS National Plants Data Team (NPDT). United States, NC, Guilford Co., Greensboro. May 23, 2012. Usage Requirements.

Doug Goldman. Provided by USDA NRCS National Plants Data Team (NPDT). United States, NC, Guilford Co., Greensboro. May 24, 2012. Usage Requirements.

Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. 3 vols. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Vol. 2: 446. Provided by Kentucky Native Plant Society. Scanned by Omnitek Inc. Usage Requirements.

Synonyms

Symbol	Scientific Name
AIGL	Ailanthus glandulosa Desf.
TOAL4	Toxicodendron altissimum Mill.

Classification

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Rank	Scientific Name and Common Name
Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass	Rosidae
Order	Sapindales
Family	Simaroubaceae – Quassia family
Genus	Ailanthus Desf. – ailanthus
Species	Ailanthus altissima (Mill.) Swingle – tree of heaven

Subordinate Taxa

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Legal Status

Noxious Weed Information
This plant is listed by the U.S. federal government or a state. Common names are from state and federal lists. Click on a place name to get a complete noxious weed list for that location, or click here for a composite list of all Federal and State Noxious Weeds.
Connecticut tree of heaven Invasive, banned
Massachusetts tree of heaven Prohibited
New Hampshire tree of heaven Prohibited invasive Species
Vermont tree-of-heaven Class B noxious weed

U.S. Weed Information
Ailanthus altissima tree-of-heaven This plant can be weedy or invasive according to the authoritative sources noted below.This plant may be known by one or more common names in different places, and some are listed above. Click on an acronym to view each weed list, or click here for a composite list of Weeds of the U.S.
STATE	Assorted authors. State noxious weed lists for 46 states. State agriculture or natural resource departments.
Cal-IPC	California Invasive Plant Council. 2006. California Invasive Plant Inventory. Cal-IPC Publication 2006-02 (1 February 2007). California Invasive Plant Council. Berkeley, California.
SEEPPC	Southeast Exotic Pest Plant Council. 1996. Invasive exotic pest plants in Tennessee (19 October 1999). Research Committee of the Tennessee Exotic Pest Plant Council. Tennessee.
WI	Hoffman, R.and K. Kearns (eds.). 1997. Wisconsin manual of control recommendations for ecologically invasive plants. Wisconsin Dept. Natural Resources. Madison, Wisconsin.

Wetland Status

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Top Level Regions
Hawaii	FACU

North America
Arid West	FACU
Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain	FACU
Eastern Mountains and Piedmont	FACU
Great Plains	FACU
Midwest	FACU
Northcentral & Northeast	UPL
Western Mountains, Valleys, and Coast	FACU