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|accepted_name=Ulmus rubra
|accepted_authority=Muhlenberg
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|title=Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.
|place=5: 169. 1793
|year=1793
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|common_names=Slippery elm;orme rouge
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|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
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|authority=Michaux
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|hierarchy=Ulmaceae;Ulmus;Ulmus rubra
|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 rubra]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> 18-35 m; crowns open. <b>Bark</b> brown to red, deeply and irregularly furrowed. <b>Wood</b> soft. <b>Branches</b> spreading; twigs gray, densely pubescent when young, glabrous with age. <b>Buds</b> obtuse; scales red, margins red-tomentose. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 5-7 mm, pubescent. <b>Leaf</b> blade obovate to ovate, 8-16 × 5-7.5 cm, base oblique, margins doubly serrate in distal 1/2-3/4, singly serrate proximally, basal teeth 6 or fewer, rounded, less distinct, apex acuminate; surfaces abaxially tomentose, dense tufts of white hair in axils of major veins, adaxially harshly scabrous, trichomes pointed toward apex, margins ciliate. <b>Inflorescences</b> dense fascicles less than 2.5 cm, 8-20-flowered, flowers and fruits not pendulous, subsessile; pedicel 1-2 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx green to reddish, shallowly lobed, lobes 5-9, reddish pubescent; stamens 5-9; anthers reddish; stigmas exserted, pink reddish. <b>Samaras</b> yellow to cream, suborbiculate, 12-18 mm diam., broadly winged, samaras pubescent on body only, rusty-tomentose, margins glabrous. <b>Seeds</b> thickened, not inflated. <b>2n</b> = 28.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late winter–early spring.
|habitat=Lower slopes, alluvial flood plains, stream banks, riverbanks, and wooded bottom lands
|elevation=0-600(-900) m
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;N.Dak.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Tex.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|discussion=<p>Scabrous-leaved Ulmus rubra is often confused with U. americana. Where ranges coincide, U. rubra may freely intergrade with Ulmus pumila Linnaeus, a widely introduced species.</p><!--
--><p>The red-rust, mucilaginous inner bark of Ulmus rubra is distinctive; its sticky slime gives this tree its common name of slippery elm. Native American tribes used Ulmus rubra for a wide variety of medicinal purposes, including inducing labor, soothing stomach and bowels, treating dysentary, coughs, colds, and catarrhs, dressing burns and sores, and as a laxative (D. E. Moerman 1986). Various preparations utilizing it are still marketed.</p>
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name=Ulmus rubra
|author=
|authority=Muhlenberg
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|family=Ulmaceae
|phenology=Flowering late winter–early spring.
|habitat=Lower slopes, alluvial flood plains, stream banks, riverbanks, and wooded bottom lands
|elevation=0-600(-900) m
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;N.Dak.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Tex.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.
|publication year=1793
|special status=Endemic;Selected by author to be illustrated
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|genus=Ulmus
|species=Ulmus rubra
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