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 specific epithet grandifolia comes from grandis 'large' and folium 'leaf'.
The American beech is native to eastern North America, from Nova Scotia west to southern Ontario in southeastern Canada, west to Wisconsin and south to eastern Texas and northern Florida in the United States.
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