Pink colored flowers bloom on this in early spring. The flowers can be eaten as a salad or fried. Dutch elm disease took out many American Elm species by way of the European and Native elm bark beetles. Wood from these trees can be used as paneling and furniture. Flat topped, open and broad crown.
Leaves are rough and large.
The inner bark of this tree that is thick and glue like can be dried and then moistened to be used as a poultice or even cough medicine. The inner bark was once made into rope in the 18th and 19th centuries. These ropes were used for fastening cotton bales. Some twigs look to have a corky texture. Smooth with bumps, gray or light brown.