The American beech (Fagus grandifolia) is the only species of beech tree native to North America. Before the glacial period, beech trees flourished throughout much of the continent. Now ...

U.S. for more than a decade, but has begun spreading more rapidly in the past three years. Beech leaf disease is believed to ...

Their surfaces are smooth and paper-like. In North America, all beech trees have green leaves. The American beech (Fagus grandifolia) is found in the eastern United States and in southeast Canada.

Maryland's beech trees face worsening disease outbreak. Learn signs, mitigation tips and how to report sightings to safeguard ...

Many of our native deciduous trees mature to majestic giants. One of the grandest is the American beech, Fagus grandifolia. This species is found across an extensive range in the eastern United ...

TANNERSVILLE — Marc Wolf steps off a trail at the Mountaintop Arboretum to examine a beech ... chestnut trees in Asia, since the two species evolved there together, but the American chestnut ...

The trees she wasn’t looking for were everywhere: lumbering beeches in the conspicuous process of succumbing to beech bark disease. The deadly fungal infection often reveals itself through fluffy, ...

The tree I’m showing you here is a large American beech. It has been allowed to remain in place by more than one landowner for about 80 years. Beech trees are slow-growing trees with tightly ...

Brianna Shepherd, research specialist at Holden Forests & Gardens, measures the diameter of an American beech tree as part of a long-term study on the impacts of beech leaf disease. First observed ...