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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Beeches, Oaks, Walnuts, and Allies
  6. Beech Family
  7. Beeches

genus

Beeches

Fagus

Traits
Includes
1 native 1 introduced
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Children

  • American Beech native
  • European Beech introduced
  • Oriental Beech introduced
  • Taiwan Beech
  • Japanese Beech
  • Mexican Beech
  • Japanese Blue Beech
  • Fagus lucida
  • Chinese Beech

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Trees
Plant type
Perennial Tree

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native beeches All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • American Beech Fagus grandifolia caterpillars 121 hosts 23 food 57 flowers 15 shelter 4

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