This is another tree of the southern USA and some of northeast Mexico. It is very similar to the Winged Elm (Ulmus alata) and to the September Elm (Ulmus serotina); the latter having bigger leaves of 3 to 4 inches long. This species has tiny leaves that are about 1 to 2 inches long x 0.5 to 1.5 inches wide, are very lustrous, dark green, stiff, and rough to touch and are sort of rounded in shape. Its tiny flowers develop in late summer and its dry fruits of samaras are about 0.5 inches long, deeply notched, and white hairy and mature in the fall. The twigs have two narrow corky wings. It is used as a shade tree in the south. Native from Mississippi to Arkansas to Texas.

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