Ulmus serotina
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
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'Ulmus serotina' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Common Names
- Red or September Elm
Other taxa in genus
- Ulmus americana
- Ulmus angustifolia
- Ulmus bergmanniana
- Ulmus campestris
- Ulmus canescens
- Ulmus carpinifolia
- Ulmus castaneifolia
- Ulmus chenmoui
- Ulmus coritana
- Ulmus crassifolia
- Ulmus davidiana
- Ulmus elliptica
- Ulmus gaussenii
- Ulmus glabra
- Ulmus glaucescens
- Ulmus × hollandica
- Ulmus japonica
- Ulmus laciniata
- Ulmus laevis
- Ulmus lamellosa
- Ulmus macrocarpa
- Ulmus parvifolia
- Ulmus plotii
- Ulmus procera
- Ulmus pumila
- Ulmus rubra
- Ulmus szechuanica
- Ulmus thomasii
- Ulmus villosa
- Ulmus 'Viminalis'
- Ulmus wallichiana
- Ulmus wilsoniana
A tree 60 to 70 ft high of spreading habit, with slender, glabrous or nearly glabrous young shoots, often becoming more or less corky-winged. Leaves oblong, often inclined to obovate, 2 to 31⁄2 in. long, slender-pointed, very unequal at the base, doubly toothed, with about twenty pairs of veins, glabrous and glossy above, downy on the veins beneath; stalks about 1⁄4 in. long. Flowers in pendulous racemes 11⁄4 in. long, opening in September. Samaras 1⁄2 in. long, oblong-elliptical, deeply divided at the apex, fringed along the margins with silvery white hairs; they are ripe in November.
A native of the USA, where it is rare and local in Georgia and Alabama, north to south Kentucky and south Illinois, usually on limestone. From the other autumn-flowering American species, U. crassifolia, it differs in its racemose inflorescence and in having the perianth divided to the base. It has been planted to some extent as a shade-tree in Georgia and Alabama, but is of no economic importance.