🐾 American beech

Fagus grandifolia · wildlife atlas entry

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Fagus grandifolia , the American beech or North American beech , is the species of beech tree native to the eastern United States and extreme southeast Canada. The genus name Fagus is Latin for "beech", and the species name grandifolia comes from grandis "large" and folium "leaf". Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

American beech — reference photo from iNaturalist — (c) Sara Rall, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Sara Rall · cc-by-nc

Record card

Scientific name	Fagus grandifolia
Rank	species
Community observations	127,435 research-grade records on iNaturalist

Classification

kingdom Plantae › phylum Tracheophyta › class Magnoliopsida › order Fagales › family Fagaceae

Seen in the wild — community photographs

American beech photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Mammoth Cave National Park, Edmonson County, US-KY, US
(c) heathertfeather, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

American beech photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Falls Lake, Wake Forest, NC, US
(c) jbluongo, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

American beech photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Falls Lake, Wake Forest, NC, US
(c) jbluongo, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

American beech photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-08 · Guilder Pond, Mt Washington, MA 01258, USA
(c) Paul Seaman, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

American beech photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · West Lafayette
(c) Danny Hj, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

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