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|accepted_name=Ulmus alata
|accepted_authority=Michaux
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|place=1: 173. 1803
|year=1803
}}
|common_names=Winged elm;wahoo
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Ulmus americana var. alata
|authority=(Michaux) Spach
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Ulmaceae;Ulmus;Ulmus alata
|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 alata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> 10-18 m; crowns open. <b>Bark</b> light brown to gray with shallow ridges and plates. <b>Wood</b> hard. <b>Branches</b>: young and old-growth branches with opposite, prominent, regular corky wings; twigs reddish brown, pubescent to glabrous. <b>Buds</b>: apex acute; scales brown to rusty, slightly pubescent. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole ca. 2.5 mm, pubescent. <b>Leaf</b> blade lanceolate to oblanceolate, 3-6.9 × 0.6-3.2 cm, base somewhat cordate to oblique, margins doubly serrate, apex acute; surfaces abaxially with trichomes on veins, tufts of pubescence in axils of veins, adaxially glabrous to scabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> short racemes, not pendulous, less than 2.5 cm; pedicel 2-7 mm, not fully expanded until fruiting stage. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx deeply lobed, symmetric, lobes 5; stamens 5; anthers red. <b>Samaras</b> gray-tan, often reddish tinged, lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, ca. 8 mm, narrowly winged, margins ciliate, cilia white, 1-2 mm. <b>Seeds</b> slightly thickened, not inflated. <b>2n</b> = 28.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late winter–early spring.
|habitat=Alluvial woods and deciduous woodlands, especially dry, acidic woodlands and glades, along fencerows, waste areas, planted as street trees
|elevation=0-600 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|discussion=<p>Often planted as a shade tree in the southern United States, <i>Ulmus alata</i> is also cultivated outside North America.</p><!--
--><p>The name <i>Ulmus pumila</i> was incorrectly applied to this species by Walter in 1788.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Ulmus alata
|authority=Michaux
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Ulmus americana var. alata
|basionyms=
|family=Ulmaceae
|phenology=Flowering late winter–early spring.
|habitat=Alluvial woods and deciduous woodlands, especially dry, acidic woodlands and glades, along fencerows, waste areas, planted as street trees
|elevation=0-600 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|publication year=1803
|special status=Endemic;Illustrated;Weedy
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|genus=Ulmus
|species=Ulmus alata
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