Fagaceae

Fagus L.

First published in Sp. Pl.: 997 (1753)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Temp. Northern Hemisphere to Mexico.

Distribution

Native to:

Alabama, Albania, Arkansas, Austria, Baltic States, Belgium, Bulgaria, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Connecticut, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, Delaware, Denmark, District of Columbia, Florida, France, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Illinois, Indiana, Italy, Japan, Kentucky, Korea, Krym, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Netherlands, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Caucasus, Norway, Nova Scotia, NW. Balkan Pen., Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Poland, Prince Edward I., Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Sicilia, South Carolina, South European Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tennessee, Texas, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine, Vermont, Vietnam, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin

Introduced into:

Ireland

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. & Frodin, D.G. (1998). World Checklist and Bibliography of Fagales: 1-408. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Stalažs, A. (2024). List of vascular plants of Latvia (with Latvian names): 1-312. Dobele.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • EBC Common Names

    • Common Names from Kew's Economic Botany Collection https://www.kew.org/science/collections-and-resources/collections/economic-botany-collection

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0