Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Fagales > Fagaceae > Castanea > Castanea pumilaCastanea pumila (Ozark chinkapin; chinkapin)Synonyms: Castanea alnifolia; Castanea alnifolia floridana; Castanea alnifolia var. floridana; Castanea alnifolia var. pubescens; Castanea ashei; Castanea chincapin; Castanea floridana; Castanea floridana var. angustifolia; Castanea floridana var. arcuata; Castanea floridana var. margaretta; Castanea margaretta; Castanea margaretta var. angustifolia; Castanea margaretta var. arcuata; Castanea nana; Castanea paucispina; Castanea pumila ashei; Castanea pumila var. ashei; Castanea pumila var. fulva; Castanea pumila var. margaretta; Castanea pumila var. margarettiae; Castanea pumila var. nana; Castanea pumila var. pumila; Fagus nana (homotypic); Fagus pumila (homotypic); Fagus pumila var. serotina Castanea pumila, commonly known as the Allegheny chinquapin, American chinquapin (from the Powhatan) or dwarf chestnut, is a species of chestnut native to the southeastern United States. The native range is from Maryland and extreme southern New Jersey and southeast Pennsylvania south to central Florida, west to eastern Texas, and north to southern Missouri and Kentucky. The plant's habitat is dry sandy and rocky uplands and ridges mixed with oak and hickory to 1000 m elevation. It grows best on well-drained soils in full sun or partial shade. |
| Allergen Potential [1] | Medium |  | | Edible [2] | May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details. | | Flower Type [2] | Monoecious | | Leaf Type [2] | Deciduous | | Lifespan [3] | Perennial | | Pollinators [2] | Insects, Lepidoptera | | Specific Gravity [4] | 0.43 | | Structure [2] | Shrub | | Usage [2] | The bark, leaves, wood and seed husks all contain tannin. | | | Height [2] | 39 inches (1 m) |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
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Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area National Recreation Area |
V |
120283 |
Kentucky, Tennessee, United States |
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Blue Ridge Parkway National Parkway |
V |
73611 |
North Carolina, Virginia, United States |
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Carolinian-South Atlantic Biosphere Reserve |
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310228 |
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, United States |
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Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area |
V |
7622 |
Georgia, United States |
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Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory LTER Site Long Term Ecological Research |
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North Carolina, United States |
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Cumberland Gap National Hist. Park National Historical Park |
V |
24282 |
Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, United States |
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Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge |
VI |
66133 |
Arkansas, United States |
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Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania Nat'l Military Park National Military Park |
V |
10384 |
Virginia, United States |
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park |
II |
515454 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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Hobcaw Barony (North Inlet) National Estuarine Research Reserve |
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7585 |
South Carolina, United States |
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Horseshoe Bend National Military Park |
V |
1926 |
Alabama, United States |
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Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park |
III |
2897 |
Georgia, United States |
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Manassas National Battlefield Park |
III |
5132 |
Virginia, United States |
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Obed Wild and Scenic River National River and Wild and Scenic Riverway |
V |
5268 |
Tennessee, United States |
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Oconee National Forest Botanical Reserve |
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306 |
Georgia, United States |
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Petersburg National Battlefield |
III |
3338 |
Virginia, United States |
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Prince William Forest Park |
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19378 |
District of Columbia, United States |
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Richmond National Battlefield Park |
III |
1517 |
Virginia, United States |
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Shenandoah National Park |
II |
108221 |
Virginia, United States |
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South Atlantic Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve |
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20317 |
South Carolina, United States |
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Southern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve |
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37548505 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000) ♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License♦ 3USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture ♦ 4Forest Inventory and Analysis DB version 5.1, May 4, 2013, U.S. Forest Service ♦ 5HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández ♦ 6Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009 ♦ 7Sciurus niger, John L. Koprowski, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 479, pp. 1-9 (1994) |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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