Flower Notes:
Green (Not ornamentally important; late summer/fall flowering)
Foliage Notes:
Green (Deep green, lustrous summer foliage); Multi-Colored (Yellowish to purplish fall foliage)
Fruit Notes:
Brown (Samara; not ornamentally important)
Soil Notes:
Prefers moist, well-drained, fertile soils but tolerant of extremes in soil conditions
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Leaves are alternate, simple, ovate or obovate (0.75-2.5" long and 0.3-1.3" wide), unequally rounded at base (but not so oblique as in other elms), serrated, and pubescent underneath when young. Highly mottled bark.