Although widespread across much of the southeast, this species is uncommon to absent in calcareous regions. Reports from the Bluegrass region need verification: CARR (Gm), FRAN (Little 1971), GALL (Gm), KENT (CW) and SPEC (Gm). Barton's (1919) data indicate that it was a significant component of original forests only in the Mississippian Embayment. The national champion is near Lake Buckhorn in PERR: 158 cm dbh, 21 m tall, 22 m wide in 2009 (KDF 2020).