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Family	Scientific Name	Common Name	Habitat	Distribution
Fagaceae	Castanea alabamensis	Alabama Chinquapin	Dry forests and woodlands.	Endemic to nw. GA and n. AL (and perhaps e. MS).
Fagaceae	Castanea crenata	Japanese Chestnut	Cultivated, and persisting.	Native of Japan and s. Korea.
Fagaceae	Castanea dentata	American Chestnut	Mesic and xeric forests.	S. ME, s. ON, MI, c. IN, s. IL, south to c. NC, c. GA, Panhandle FL, and sc. MS.
Fagaceae	Castanea mollissima	Chinese Chestnut	Forests.	Native of China. This species is relatively resistant to chestnut blight and has been planted widely as an ornamental and nut tree; it sometimes naturalizes and appears nearly native. Reported for NC (Macon County) by Pittillo & Brown (1988).
Fagaceae	Castanea ozarkensis	Ozark Chinquapin	Dry to dry-mesic upland woodlands and forests, bluffs, glade margins, usually in acid soils derived from sandstone or chert.	S. MO, e. OK, and w. AR south to n. LA; reports from AL were apparently based on a different concept of the species.
Fagaceae	Castanea pumila	Common Chinquapin	Xeric forests and woodlands, generally in fire-maintained habitats.	NJ, s. PA, n. KY, and s. MO, south to c. peninsular FL and se. TX. Riley, Vincent, & Widrlechner (2020) removed C. pumila from OH's flora.
Fagaceae	Castanea sativa	Spanish Chestnut	Planted and perhaps locally naturalizing.	Reported as naturalized in KY, AL, PA, and elsewhere in e. North America (Clark et al. 2005).

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