Index / Search / Castanea sativa
§1 Plant
Castanea sativa Mill.
vernacular European chestnut — species · Fagaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fagaceae Dumort.
- Genus
- Castanea
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 11 counties across 7 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 11 counties across 7 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 2 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CASA27 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5333294 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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