Ulmus alata
Winged elm is a small to medium-sized deciduous tree that typically grows to 30-50' tall with an open-rounded crown. It is native from Virginia to southern Indiana and Missouri south to Florida and Texas. In Missouri, it is typically found in the ... [... more]
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Ulmus americana
American elm is a medium to large deciduous tree, typically growing to 60-80' (less frequently to 130') tall with a vase-shaped, broad-rounded crown. It is native to eastern and central North America. In Missouri, it typically occurs in low moist ... [... more]
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Ulmus glabra
The species is rarely found in commerce. It could be used as a specimen for large lawns, but has disease susceptibility that makes planting it today a questionable proposition. Popular pendulous cultivars include 'Camperdownii' (topgrafted) and ... [... more]
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Ulmus glabra 'Camperdownii'
Notwithstanding potential disease problems, this is a popular weeping landscape tree. Scotch elm or Wych elm is a large, wide-spreading, deciduous tree that typically grows to 70-100' with a broad-rounded crown. It is native from Great Britain to ... [... more]
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Ulmus parvifolia
Chinese elm (also lacebark elm) is a medium-sized deciduous tree that typically grows to 40-50' (less frequently to 70') tall with a rounded crown and long pendulous branching. It is native to China, Korea and Japan. It is noted for its excellent ... [... more]
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Ulmus parvifolia 'Dynasty'
This Chinese elm cultivar is a fast-growing, vase-shaped, deciduous tree with a small rounded crown. Typically grows 20-40' tall, but may reach 60' in ideal growing conditions. Small (parvifolia means little-leaved), serrate, elliptic-to-oval, ... [... more]
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Ulmus parvifolia 'Hokkaido'
Easily grown in average, consistently moist, well-drained soils in full sun. Species is noted for tolerating wide range of soils. Native to China, Korea and Japan, Ulmus parvifolia, commonly known as Chinese elm or lacebark elm, is a deciduous ... [... more]
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Ulmus parvifolia 'Seiju'
Easily grown in average, consistently moist, well-drained soils in full sun. Species is noted for tolerating wide range of soils. Native to China, Korea and Japan, Ulmus parvifolia, commonly known as Chinese elm or lacebark elm, is a deciduous ... [... more]
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Ulmus pumila
Siberian elm is a fast-growing, weak-wooded, deciduous tree that typically grows to 50-70' tall with broad upright habit. In the wild, it is sometimes seen in a shrubby form. It is primarily found in moist soils along streams from eastern Siberia ... [... more]
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Ulmus rubra
Slippery elm is a medium sized, coarse-textured, somewhat weedy, deciduous tree that typically grows to 40-60' (less frequently to 100') tall with a vase-shaped to broad-rounded crown. It is distinguished by its downy twigs, red-hairy buds ... [... more]
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Uvularia grandiflora
This Missouri native wildflower is a clump-forming, erect plant that grows to 2' tall and features 1.5" long, pendulous, somewhat bell-shaped, yellow flowers with six, partially twisted tepals (petal and sepal look-alikes) and lance-shaped, ... [... more]
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