ILLINOIS PLANT INFORMATION NETWORK ILPIN INFORMATION ON Ulmus rubra CLASS: DICOTYLEDENAE ORDER: UTRICALES FAMILY: ULMACEAE SCIENTIFIC NAME: Ulmus rubra AUTHORITY: Muhl. COMMON NAMES: SLIPPERY ELM SYNONOMY: None PLANTS CODE: ULRU NATURAL COMMUNITIES: FOREST UPLAND FOREST DRY DRY-MESIC MESIC FLOODPLAIN FOREST MESIC LISTED DOMINANT CHARACTERISTIC WETLAND SEEP & SPRING ACID GRAVEL SEEP BORDER OF LAKE PRIMARY GLADE LIMESTONE BLUFF SAF FOREST COVER TYPE: CENTRAL Upland oak listed White/Black/Northern Red- Oak Other Central Types listed River Birch - Sycamore NATURAL DIVISION: Rock River Hill Country Freeport Oregon listed Grand Prairie Grand Prairie Springfield Western listed Western Forest Prairie Galesburg Carlinville listed Middle Mississippi Border Glaciated Driftless listed Southern Till Plain Effingham Plain Mt. Vernon Hill Country listed Coastal Plain Cretaceous Hills COUNTIES: ADAMS ALEXANDER BOND BOONE BROWN BUREAU CALHOUN CARROLL CASS CHAMPAIGN CHRISTIAN CLARK CLAY CLINTON COLES COOK CRAWFORD CUMBERLAND DEKALB DEWITT DOUGLAS DUPAGE EDGAR EDWARDS EFFINGHAM FAYETTE FORD FRANKLIN FULTON GALLATIN GREENE GRUNDY HAMILTON HANCOCK HARDIN HENDERSON HENRY IROQUOIS JACKSON JASPER JEFFERSON JERSEY JO DAVIESS JOHNSON KANE KANKAKEE KENDALL KNOX LAKE LASALLE LAWRENCE LEE LIVINGSTON LOGAN MCDONOUGH MCHENRY MCLEAN MACON MACOUPIN MADISON MARION MARSHALL MASON MASSAC MENARD MERCER MONROE MONTGOMERY MORGAN MOULTRIE OGLE PEORIA PERRY PIATT PIKE POPE PULASKI PUTNAM RANDOLPH RICHLAND ROCK ISLAND ST. CLAIR SALINE SANGAMON SCHUYLER SCOTT SHELBY STARK STEPHENSON TAZEWELL UNION VERMILION WABASH WARREN WASHINGTON WAYNE WHITE WHITESIDE WILL WILLIAMSON WINNEBAGO WOODFORD GROWTH FORM: Dicot-woody TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS: ROOTS: Primary LEAF ARRANGEMENT: Alternate LEAF TYPE: Simple LEAF MARGIN: Doubly Serrate LEAF VENATION: Pinnate LEAF SHAPE: Ovate Oblique INFLORESCENCE: Other FLOWER STRUCTURE: Incomplete (no petals) FLOWER PLACEMENT: Hypogynous FRUIT: Samara DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC COMMENTS: Flowers in fascicles; leaves strongly asymmetrical (at the base and very rough on the upper surface), winter buds covered with rusty colored hairs. GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: ORIGIN: Native POPULATION DYNAMICS: STATE STATUS: Not listed FEDERAL STATUS: Not listed COMMONNESS: Common ENDEMIC: NOT-ENDEMIC BIOLOGIC: HABIT: Tree LIFE CYCLE: Perennial REPRODUCTION: Sexual FLOWERING PERIOD: MONTH BEGINNING- 2 MONTH END- 4 TROPHIC STATUS: Autotrophic C02 FIXATION: C3 SEX: Perfect ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS: Found in open wooded bluffs and rocky woods. ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS: No data entered FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS: MAJOR DISPERSAL AGENTS: WIND MAJOR POLLINATION AGENT: Wind HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DATA: ALLERGENIC: Yes EDIBLE: Yes SHOWY FLOWERS: YES AMOUNT: Low LANDSCAPING: YES WILD HERBS: Medicinal Culinary-flavor HUMAN FACTOR COMMENTS: Bark used as a demulcent in the treatment of fevers and inflammation; causes hayfever; inner bark chewed as a gum. WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK INFORMATION: FOOD VALUE: DEER VALUE: Unknown UPLAND GAME VALUE: Unknown WATERFOWL VALUE: Unknown SMALL NON-GAME BIRD VALUE: - Fruit SMALL MAMMAL VALUE: Unknown AQUATIC MAMMAL VALUE: Unknown FISH VALUE: Unknown COVER VALUE: DEER: No data WATERFOWL: No data SMALL MAMMAL: No data FISH: No data SMALL BIRD: Good UPLAND GAME: No data AQUATIC MAMMAL: No data LIVESTOCK PALATABILITY DATA: No data entered REVEGETATION PLANTINGS: SHORT-TERM REVEGETATION POTENTIAL: Poor LONG-TERM REVEGETATION POTENTIAL: Good WEEDINESS: COLONIZING REFERENCES: Mohlenbrock, R. H., ed. 1975. Guide to the vascular flora of Illinois. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale. 494 pp. Jones, G. N. 1963. Flora of Illinois. Third ed. American Midland Naturalist Monograph 7. University of Notre Dame, Indiana. 401 pp. Steyermark, J. A. 1963. Flora of Missouri. Iowa State University Press, Ames. 1725 pp. Gleason, H. A., and A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of north- eastern United States and adjacent Canada. Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York. 810 pp. Fernald, M. L. 1950. Gray's manual of botany. 8th ed. American Book Co., New York. 1632 pp. Swink, F., and G. S. Wilhelm. 1979. Plants of the Chicago region. Third ed. The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois. 922 pp. Eyre, F. H., ed. 1980. Forest cover types of the United States and Canada. Society of American Foresters (SAF), Washington, D.C., 148 pp. Schwegman, J. E., G. D. Fell, M. Hutchison, G. Paulson, W. M. Shepherd, and J. White. 1973. Comprehensive plan for the Illinois Nature Preserves System. Part 2 - The Natural Divisions of Illinois. Illinois Nature Preserves Commission, Springfield. 32 pp., plus map. White, J., and M. H. Madany. 1978. Classification of natural communities in Illinois. Pages 309-405 in J. White, ed., Illinois natural areas inventory technical report. Vol. 1. Survey methods and results. Illinois Natural Areas Inventory, Urbana. Miller, R. B., and L. R. Tehon. 1929. The native and naturalized trees of Illinois. Illinois Natural History Survey Bulletin 18: 1-340. Mohlenbrock, R. H. 1980. Forest trees of Illinois. Third ed. Illinois Department of Conservation, Division of Forestry, Springfield. 331 pp. Downton, W. J. S. 1975. The occurrence of C4 photosynthesis among plants. Photosynthetica 9(1): 96-105. Grimm, W. C. 1950. The trees of Pennsylvania. Stackpole and Heck, New York and Harrisburg. 363 pp. END OF DATA FOR SPECIES Ulmus rubra ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ILPIN was developed by Louis Iverson*, with data compiled by David Ketzner and Jeanne Karnes Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820 *currently employed by USDA Forest Service, 359 Main Rd., Delaware, OH 43015