Medium sized, 60 – 70 ft. in height, 18 – 30 in. in dbh.

 Shape: alternate; simple

 Margin: elliptical to obovate

 Texture: doubly serrate

 Variation: scabrous above, pubescent below

Red brown bark, non-diamond shaped fissures, does not show patches or streaks when sectioned. Mucilaginous inner bark.

Ash to brown gray in color, scabrous, buds pubescent. Buds are chestnut brown to black in color.

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Flowers appear in short pedicelled fascicles.

Doubly serrated leaf, scabrous leaf and twig, bud more stout that American Elm buds.

Southern Maine west to Nebraska, south to Louisiana.

Intermediate tolerance. Rich, moist bottomlands, along streams.