NSIS: Florida Gardening with Native Plants - Elm

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ELM FAMILY (ULMACEAE)
Bird food Florida trema fruit: many birds Hackberry fruit: bluebirds, cardinals, catbirds, cedar waxwings, flickers, mockingbirds, red-bellied woodpeckers, robins, sapsuckers, thrashers, titmice, towhees, others Winged elm seeds: cardinals, Carolina chickadees, finches, grosbeaks, sparrows, other songbirds Butterfly larval food Elms: Eastern Comma, Mourning Cloak, Question Mark Florida trema: Martial Scrub-Hairstreaks Hackberrys: Hackberry Emperor, Mourning Cloak, Question Mark, Snout, Tawny Emperor Butterfly nectar food Hackberrys: Tawny Emperor Wildlife food Winged elm seeds: rabbits, fox squirrels, gray squirrels

name	area	flower & fruit	season	other

Hackberry Celtis laevigata	NCS	greenish orange red	Sp SpSuF	t
Florida trema Trema floridanum	CS	inconspicuous orange	SpSuFW SpSuFW	t
Winged elm Ulmus alata	NC	greenish winged seed	Sp Sp	t
American elm Ulmus americana	NC	greenish winged seed	Sp Sp	t
Cedar elm Ulmus crassifolia	N	greenish winged seed	Su F	t

Codes:

N=north
C=central
S=south

Sp=spring
Su=summer
F=fall
W=winter

a=annual
b=biennial
p=perennial
s=shrub
t=tree
v=vine

i=invasive

ta=toxic to animals
th=toxic to humans

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