The American Elm

American Elm

Ulmus americana, generally known as the American Elm or, less commonly, as the White Elm or Water Elm, is a species native to eastern North America, occurring from Nova Scotia west to Alberta and Montana, and south to Florida and central Texas. The American elm is an extremely hardy tree that can...

 Ulmus americana 'Vase' was listed in Edition 5 of the 1949 Plant Buyers Guide. No details of provenance of the tree are available, and its status as a true cultivar is uncertain. Green regarded the tree as "..neither clonal nor a true cultivar".

Cultivation

It is not known whether 'Vase' remains in cultivation in the USA, nor whether it was cultivated elsewhere.

Synonymy

• ?Ulmus urnii: Siebenthaler Co.,(Dayton, Ohio
  Dayton, Ohio
  Dayton is the 6th largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County, the fifth most populous county in the state. The population was 141,527 at the 2010 census. The Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 841,502 in the 2010 census...
  
  ), Catalogue 122, p. 15, 1931.
• Ulmus vaseyi: Bailey & Bailey, Hortus Second, 747, 1941.