Plant Description:

• Tall tree with reddish bark
• Tree looks umbrella shaped
• Strongly veined oval leaves with toothed edges
• Fruit is winged
• Occurs in the open-forests
• Dutch Elm Disease has killed many elms
• The decomposing leaves are high in potassium and calcium and improve the soil around the tree
• Found at Stops 1, 2, 6, and 8

 

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-Sourced from Budd's Flora of the Canadian Prairie Provinces, 1979 and
Plants of the Western Boreal Forest & Aspen Parkland, 1995.
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