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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".

The American beech is a shade-tolerant species,[3] commonly found in forests in the final stage of succession. Few trees in its natural range other than sugar maple match it for shade tolerance. Although sometimes found in pure stands, it is more often associated with sugar maple (forming the beech–maple climax community), yellow birch, and eastern hemlock, typically on moist, well-drained slopes and rich bottomlands. In the Reservation, it is often found in stands with American Witch-Hazel (Hamamelis virginiana, another shade-tolerant tree.

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1. (c) Sara Rall, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Sara Rall
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3. (c) Greg Hanisek, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Greg Hanisek
4. (c) anonymous, some rights reserved (CC BY), https://eol.org/media/6797300
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6. Adapted by Tom Pollard from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fagus_grandifolia

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