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|accepted_name=Ulmus americana
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 226. 1753
|year=1753
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|common_names=American elm;orme d'Amérique
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|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
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|name=Ulmus americana var. aspera
|authority=Chapman
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|name=Ulmus americana var. floridana
|authority=(Chapman) Little
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|name=Ulmus floridana
|authority=unknown
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|hierarchy=Ulmaceae;Ulmus;Ulmus americana
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ulmaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Ulmus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Ulmus americana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> 21-35 m; crowns spreading, commonly vase-shaped. <b>Bark</b> light brown to gray, deeply fissured or split into plates. <b>Wood</b> soft. <b>Branches</b> pendulous, old-growth branches smooth, not winged; twigs brown, pubescent to glabrous. <b>Buds</b> brown, apex acute, glabrous; scales reddish brown, pubescent. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole ca. 5 mm, glabrous to pubescent. <b>Leaf</b> blade oval to oblong-obovate, 7-14 × 3-7 cm, base oblique, margins doubly serrate, apex acute to acuminate; surfaces abaxially glabrous to slightly pubescent, tufts in axils of veins, adaxially glabrous to scabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> fascicles, less than 2.5 cm, flowers and fruits drooping on elongate pedicels; pedicel 1-2 cm. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx shallowly lobed, slightly asymmetric, lobes 7-9, margins ciliate; stamens 7-9; anthers red; stigmas white-ciliate, deeply divided. <b>Samaras</b> yellow-cream when mature, sometimes tinged with reddish purple (s range of species), ovate, ca. 1 cm, narrowly winged, margins ciliate, cilia yellow to white, to 1 mm. <b>Seeds</b> thickened, not inflated. <b>2n</b> = 56.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering winter–early spring.
|habitat=Alluvial woods, swamp forests, deciduous woodlands, fencerows, pastures, old fields, waste areas, planted as street trees
|elevation=0-1400 m
|distribution=Man.;N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;Mont.;Nebr.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;N.Dak.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Tex.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.;Wyo.
|discussion=<p><i>Ulmus americana</i> is reported as widely escaped in Idaho, which is not part of the natural range of this taxon. It is occasionally cultivated outside its native distribution, and it has escaped sporadically from cultivation. It is also reported as naturalized in Arizona, but I have seen no specimens.</p><!--
--><p><i>Ulmus americana</i> is the state tree for Massachusetts and for North Dakota.</p><!--
--><p>The American elm is susceptible to numerous diseases, including Dutch elm disease. <i>Ulmus americana</i> has been a street and shade tree of choice because of its fast growth and pleasant shape and size. The species still exists in substantial numbers both as shade trees and in nature.</p><!--
--><p>Numerous infraspecific taxa have been recognized in <i>Ulmus americana</i> (A. J. Rehder 1949; P. S. Green 1964).</p><!--
--><p>Native American tribes frequently used parts of <i>Ulmus americana</i> for a variety of medicinal purposes, including treatment of coughs and colds, sore eyes, dysentary, diarrhea, broken bones, gonorrhea, and pulmonary hemorrhage, as a gynecological aid, as a bath for appendicitis, and as a wash for gunwounds (D. E. Moerman 1986).</p>
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name=Ulmus americana
|author=
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Ulmus americana var. aspera;Ulmus americana var. floridana;Ulmus floridana
|basionyms=
|family=Ulmaceae
|phenology=Flowering winter–early spring.
|habitat=Alluvial woods, swamp forests, deciduous woodlands, fencerows, pastures, old fields, waste areas, planted as street trees
|elevation=0-1400 m
|distribution=Man.;N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;Mont.;Nebr.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;N.Dak.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Tex.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Endemic;Selected by author to be illustrated
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|genus=Ulmus
|species=Ulmus americana
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