DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Fagus grandifolia | American Beech 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
American beech is distributed from Cape Brenton Island, Nova Scotia west
to Maine, southern Quebec, southern Ontario, northern Michigan, and
eastern Wisconsin; south to southern Illinois, southeastern Missouri,
northwestern Arkansas, southeastern Oklahoma, and eastern Texas; east to
northern Florida; and northeast to southeastern South Carolina. An
isolated variety (var. mexicana) occurs in the mountains of northeastern
Mexico [41,22].



ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES12  Longleaf - slash pine
   FRES13  Loblolly - shortleaf pine
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES16  Oak - gum - cypress
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch
   FRES19  Aspen - birch


STATES : 
     AL  AR  CT  DE  FL  GA  IL  IN  KY  LA
     MA  MD  ME  MI  MN  MO  MS  NC  NH  NJ
     NY  OH  OK  PA  SC  TN  TX  VT  VA  WI
     WV  NS  ON  PQ  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ACAD  ALPO  ANTI  BISO  BITH  BLRI
     BUFF  CACO  CAHA  CAMO  CHCH  COLO
     COSW  CUGA  CUVA  DEWA  FOCA  FODO
     GWMP  GRSM  HOBE  INDU  JOFL  MACA
     MANA  MORR  NATR  NERI  OBRI  PIRO
     PRWI  RICH  ROCR  SARA  SHEN  SHIL
     SLBE


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
    K081  Oak savanna
    K083  Cedar glades
    K084  Cross timbers
    K089  Black Belt
    K090  Live oaks - sea oats
    K093  Great Lakes - fir forest
    K094  Conifer bog
    K095  Great Lakes pine forest
    K096  Northeastern spruce - fir forest
    K097  Southeastern spruce - fir forest
    K098  Northern floodplain forest
    K099  Maple - basswood forest
    K100  Oak - hickory forest
    K101  Elm - ash forest
    K102  Beech - maple forest
    K103  Mixed mesophytic forest
    K104  Appalacian oak forest
    K106  Northern hardwoods
    K107  Northern hardwoods - fir forest
    K108  Northern hardwoods - spruce forest
    K109  Transition between K104 and K106
    K110  Northeastern oak - pine forest
    K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
    K112  Southern mixed forest
    K113  Southern floodplain forest
    K115  Pocosin
    K116  Subtropical pine forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    20  White pine - northern red oak - maple
    21  Eastern white pine
    22  White pine - hemlock
    23  Eastern hemlock
    24  Hemlock - yellow birch
    25  Sugar maple - beech - yellow birch
    26  Sugar maple - basswood
    27  Sugar maple
    28  Black cherry - maple
    30  Red spruce - yellow birch
    31  Red spruce - sugar maple - beech
    32  Red spruce
    33  Red spruce - balsam fir
    34  Red spruce - Fraser fir
    35  Paper birch - red spruce - balsam fir
    52  White oak - black oak - northern red oak
    55  Northern red oak
    57  Yellow poplar
    58  Yellow poplar - eastern hemlock
    59  Yellow poplar - white oak - northern red oak
    60  Beech - sugar maple
   108  Red maple


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
American beech is either a dominant or cocodominant species in the
northern hardwoods of the Northeast, Lake States, and the Appalachian
Mountains.  Common associates include sugar maple (Acer saccharum), red
maple (A. rubrum), yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis), American
basswood (Tilia americana), black cherry (Prunus serotina), southern
magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora), eastern white pine (Pinus strobus), red
spruce (Picea rubens), hickories (Carya spp.), and oaks (Quercus spp.)
[3,41].

Published classification schemes listing American beech as dominant or
codominant in habitat types (hts) are listed below:

Area                           Classification      Authority         
 
n MI, ne WI                    forest hts          Coffman, Alyanak &
                                                   Rosovosky 1980
n WI                           forest hts          Kotar & others 1989
n WI, n MI                     forest hts          Kotar 1986

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