Plants by Genus Species
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Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2011
Family
Fagaceae
Genus Species
Fagus grandifolia
Common Name
American Beech
Habit
Tree
Link to Image of Plant
http://thekeep.eiu.edu/whiteside_plantnames/16/
Abstract
American beech has a broad native range across eastern North America from northern Florida, north to Maine and Nova Scotia, west to Michigan and eastern Wisconsin, south along the southeastern border of Illinois and Missouri and into southern Arkansas, southeastern Texas, and Louisiana across the Gulf of Mexico states all forming a perimeter wherein it is distributed (Burns 1990).
Recommended Citation
Coons, Janice; Coutant, Nancy; and Whiteside, Wesley, "Fagus grandifolia" (2011). Plants by Genus Species. 8.
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/whiteside_species/8
Comments
From where or whom obtained and when: One plant of Fagus grandifolia came from Edgar County in Illinois in 1965, while the other two came from Clark County, Illinois in 1965 and 1975.