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§1 Plant
Ulmus serotina Sarg.
vernacular September elm — species · Ulmaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Ulmaceae Mirb.
- Genus
- Ulmus
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 91 counties across 8 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -21 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 180 min.
- Precipitation
- 40–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 5–7.3
- Root depth
- 24 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 70 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 30 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Green
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Summer
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Fall
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 149,000
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- Yes
- Fuelwood
- Low
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 91 counties across 8 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Ashley 05003
- Benton 05007
- Clark 05019
- Conway 05029
- Craighead 05031
- Crawford 05033
- Crittenden 05035
- Faulkner 05045
- Franklin 05047
- Fulton 05049
- Garland 05051
- Hempstead 05057
- Hot Spring 05059
- Howard 05061
- Izard 05065
- Lee 05077
- Little River 05081
- Marion 05089
- Miller 05091
- Montgomery 05097
- Newton 05101
- Phillips 05107
- Pike 05109
- Poinsett 05111
- Polk 05113
- Pope 05115
- Sevier 05133
- St. Francis 05123
Georgia view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 21 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 6 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ULSE ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5361861 ↗Record version
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