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Ulmus americana L. 1753

Ulmaceae (APG IV)
American elm
Taxon concept: The Plant List (2010)
Distribution: throughout eastern North America

Ulmus americana L. - Accepted: Ulmus americana L. bei The Plant List (2010); Familie: Ulmaceae (APG III)
Ulmus americana L. - Accepted: Ulmus americana L. bei Zander 2008; Familie: Ulmaceae (Zander 2008)
Ulmus americana L. - Accepted: Ulmus americana L. bei The Plant List (2014), version 1.1; Familie: Ulmaceae (APG III)
Ulmus americana L. - Accepted: Ulmus americana L. bei The Plant List (2014), version 1.1; Familie: Ulmaceae (APG IV)

Flowers
hermaphrodite flowers
Flower ecology
wind-pollinated (anemophilous), sometimes pollinated by insects (especially bees)
Life form
tree
Foliage persistence
deciduous
Fruit ecology
wind-dispersed (anemochorous) or water-dispersed (hydrochorous) in river bottom stands
Root type
variable: shallow root system on moist soils, deep-rooting (taproot) on dry soils
Natural occurrence (habitat)
wet flats and bottomlands, floodplain forests, swamp margins, terraces, moraine hills
Vegetation typ and synecology (plant community)
temperate, mixed mesophytic deciduous forests
Bark
dark grey, deeply furrowed bark

Erhardt, W., Götz, E., Bödeker, N. & Seybold, S. (2008): Der große Zander. Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. Band 2. Arten und Sorten. Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart (Hohenheim), 18. Aufl., 2103 S.;





Last update:
Taxonomic update: Database method on: 2.4.2020
Update of the description: Matthias Krause; latest by: Matthias Krause on: 27.2.2019

In the list below you will find the geographic coordinates of many woody plants in the garden. In these cases the points are marked in the map.
If no coordinates are listed, the coordinate of the point in the map marks the middle coordinate of the section.

Sex Standort Accession number Planting year Donation IPEN Lat. Long.
Parzelle E SP-EB-025-9965 2019 XX-0-HOH-SP-EB-025-9965 48,7110641085 9,2116887302