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Smooth-leaved Elm (Ulmus carpinifolia) is a species of Elm native to Europe, from northeast Spain and southeast England east to southwest Russia. It is a deciduous tree reaching 30-35 m tall.

Similar elms in southeast Europe and southwest and central Asia are sometimes included in this species, but more often treated as separate species, Ulmus canescens, U. chumlia and U. villosa, while in northwest Europe, U. angustifolia, U. plottii and U. procera ( English Elm) are also very closely related and possibly conspecific.

It hybridises with Ulmus glabra ( Wych ElmThe Wych elm Ulmus glabra Huds. is, or perhaps more accurately was, a large tree native to most of Europe, and in Britain, was the by far commonest Elm in the north and west of the country. It is highly susceptible to Dutch elm disease and is now very rar) to give the hybrid Ulmus x hollandica ( Dutch Elm ).

The scientific name refers to the superficial similarity of the leaves to Carpinus ( HornbeamCarpinus betulus European Hornbeam Carpinus caroliniana American Hornbeam Carpinus cordata Sawa Hornbeam Carpinus fargesii Farges' Hornbeam Carpinus laxiflora Aka-shide Hornbeam Carpinus japonica Japanese Hornbeam Carpinus orientalis Oriental Hornbeam Car) leaves, while the English name contrasts the smooth upper surface of the leaves, with the rough sandpapery-textured upper surface of Wych Elm leaves.