Ulmus minor
Smooth-leaf elm · also Small leaved elm, Smoothleaf elm, Field elm
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Ulmus minor is a polymorphic European elm that can grow as a riparian shrub to a tree with arching branches. It tolerates summer floods, droughts, pollution, and salt, making it suitable for urban planting despite susceptibility to Dutch Elm Disease. It produces papery samara fruits and is deciduous.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 7,4882.6%39 yr16 in
- 7410.17%47 yr16 in
- 3370.03%—2.0 in
- 3020.13%—13 in
- 330.03%—21 in
- 150.00%—41 in
- 150.00%—15 in
- 150.13%—3.9 in
- 110.01%—3.8 in
- 90.00%—7.1 in
- 80.07%12 yr4.5 in
- 50.01%—2.0 in
- 20.00%—17 in
- 10.00%——
Traits
- Foliage
- Deciduous
- Mature height
- 50–60 ft
- Canopy spread
- 50–70 ft
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Water needs
- Moderate
- Drought tolerance
- High
- Pollution tolerance
- High
- Tolerates
- coastal, salt
- Blooms
- Jan, Feb, Dec
Trunk diameters across every city: median 16 in, mean 15 in, 90th percentile 30 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.
Native range
Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
- Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests
- Baltic mixed forests
- Central Anatolian steppe and woodlands
- Central European mixed forests
- East European forest steppe
- Eastern Anatolian deciduous forests
- European Atlantic mixed forests
- Western European broadleaf forests
Temperate Conifer Forests
- Northern Anatolian conifer and deciduous forests
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands
- Central Anatolian steppe
Montane Grasslands & Shrublands
- Kuh Rud and Eastern Iran montane woodlands
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub
- Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests
Other Ulmus in the catalogue
28 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.
