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| Bloom Period | Mid-April to Mid-April or Mid-May |
|---|---|
| Category, USDA | Dicot |
| Comment | Woods |
| Present in Plant Communities |
Gardens, meadows or lawns (G3) Marshes, swamps or floodplains (A1,A2,A3,A4,A6) Slope forest (C1,C4,C5,C6,C7) Thicket or young forest (D1,D4,E4,F6) Upland forest (B1,B2,B3,B4,B5,B7,B9,B11) |
| Educational Notes | very smooth gray bark |
| Family | Fagaceae |
| Fibers Dyes, Ethnobotany | lumber and snowshoes |
| Foliage Color | tan |
| Foods, Ethnobotany | Edible nuts, beverage, bread |
| Fruit Color Mature | brown |
| Growth Rate | slow to medium |
| Habit | Tree |
| Habitat | mature forests on moist, rich soils; throughout |
| Habitat | Woods |
| Hardiness Zone | 3a |
| Height | 75.0 |
| Medicine, Ethnobotany | Burns, poison ivy, liver help |
| MPA Species IDs | 1542 |
| North American Federations, Ethnobotany | Cherokee, Potawatomi, Ojibwa |
| Native | Yes |
| Other , Ethnobotany | buttons, insecticide, bowls |
| Plant Culture | Prefers well-drained, acidic soils. |
| Present in Plant Surveys | Ogle, partial survey 1992 Ebert - Holt, 1998 - 1999 Brighton-Longbottom, 2018 |
| Predominant Habit | Tree |
| Range | NB to ON s. to FL, TX |
| Seed Type | nut |
| Soil Moisture | Moist soil |
| Species ID Ghini | 10027 |
| Status, Ethnobotany | Complete |
| Sun Exposure | Shade-sun |
| Synonym Scientific Names | Fagus americana, Fagus ferruginea, Fagus grandifolia ssp. heterophylla, Fagus grandifolia var. caroliniana |
| USDA Synonym Symbols | FAAM, FAFE, FAGRC, FAGRH |
| Use | For the winter landscape, there is no better tree. It has smooth gray bark and tan, fluttery leaves that remain until spectacular green leaves replace them in spring. |
| Mapped Plant Accessions | 2005.0022.376 2005.0022.391 2005.0022.49 2005.0022.68 2013.0018.1882 2013.0018.1884 2013.0018.1904 2013.0018.1918 2013.0018.1935 2018.0010.2004 |
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