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Plant Habit: Tree
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Slightly alkaline (7.4 – 7.8)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 5a -28.9 °C (-20 °F) to -26.1 °C (-15 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 9b
Plant Height: 30 to 40 feet usually, to 60 feet
Plant Spread: 30 to 40 feet
Leaves: Deciduous
Flowers: Inconspicuous
Uses: Shade Tree
Wildlife Attractant: Birds
Resistances: Drought tolerant
Pollinators: Wind
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil
Monoecious
Conservation status: Least Concern (LC)

Conservation status:
Conservation status: Least Concern
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Common names
  • Winged Elm

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Location: Northeastern, Texas
Date: 2015-03-05
Location: Aberdeen, NC (S. Sycamore street)
Date: September 12, 2022
Winged Elm #328; RAB page 387, 56-1-3; LHB page 334, 51-1-5, "Anc
Location: Northeastern, Texas
Date: 2015-02-14
Location: Aberdeen, NC (my garden 2022)
Date: September 12, 2022
Winged Elm #328; RAB page 387, 56-1-3; LHB page 334, 51-1-5, "Anc
Location: Northeastern, Texas
Date: 2015-02-13
Location: Elm Collection of Morton Arboretum in Lisle, IL
Date: 2017-09-05
maturing tree, not full-grown
Location: Aberdeen, NC (S. Sycamore street)
Date: September 12, 2022
Winged Elm #328; RAB page 387, 56-1-3; LHB page 334, 51-1-5, "Anc
Location: Elm Collection of Morton Arboretum in Lisle, IL
Date: 2017-09-05
maturing tree
Location: Elm Collection of Morton Arboretum in Lisle, IL
Date: 2017-09-05
looking up the trunk
Location: Elm Collection of Morton Arboretum in Lisle, IL
Date: 2017-09-05
corky winged twigs
Location: Northeastern, Texas
Date: 2017-03-26
New spring leaves
Location: Elm Collection of Morton Arboretum in Lisle, IL
Date: 2017-09-05
foliage of tree
Location: Elm Collection of Morton Arboretum in Lisle, IL
Date: 2017-09-05
closer look at foliage
Location: Elm Collection of Morton Arboretum in Lisle, IL
Date: 2017-09-05
portion of trunk with bark
Location: Elm Collection of Morton Arboretum in Lisle, IL
Date: 2017-09-05
the winged twigs and leaves
Location: Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois
Date: 2019-11-24
two trees in late fall
Location: Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois
Date: 2019-11-24
corky winged twigs and leaves with orangish fall color
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Comments:
  • Posted by ILPARW (southeast Pennsylvania - Zone 6b) on Dec 5, 2017 8:19 PM concerning plant:
    The Winged Elm is a tree species of the Southern USA, growing wild from Virginia to central Florida to east Texas up to southern Illinois, being common in upland dry soils. Its tiny leaves are 1.5 to 3 inches long and 1 to 1.5 inches wide and are shiny and can sometimes develop a good yellow or orange fall color. Its twigs are corky winged. In the South it is used as a street tree and as a shade tree. One person from Texas told me it seeds itself around a lot. I think it has outrun the Dutch Elm Disease and selected its own resistant progeny or already had resistance. I first saw one in southern Illinois at a cemetery of some of my relatives, and it looked good.
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