diff --git a/frontend/src/metabase/visualizations/components/settings/ChartNestedSettingSeries.jsx b/frontend/src/metabase/visualizations/components/settings/ChartNestedSettingSeries.jsx
index 02d2b521ba557a18aebf079b7c25de6ca784fde7..7ddb8df9a06a11e1bdc9aed12f69fd79deed61ab 100644
--- a/frontend/src/metabase/visualizations/components/settings/ChartNestedSettingSeries.jsx
+++ b/frontend/src/metabase/visualizations/components/settings/ChartNestedSettingSeries.jsx
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ export default class ChartNestedSettingSeries extends React.Component {
     const objectKey = object && getObjectKey(object);
     const isSelected = single => objectKey === getObjectKey(single);
 
+    const display = object && object.card.display;
+    const isLineAreaBar = ["line", "area", "bar", "combo"].includes(display);
     const isStacked = settings["stackable.stack_type"] != null;
 
     return (
@@ -58,7 +60,7 @@ export default class ChartNestedSettingSeries extends React.Component {
                       onChangeObjectSettings(single, { title: e.target.value })
                     }
                   />
-                  {!isStacked ? (
+                  {isLineAreaBar && !isStacked ? (
                     <ButtonGroup
                       className="ml1 align-self-stretch"
                       value={settings.display}
diff --git a/frontend/test/metabase/visualizations/components/settings/ChartNestedSettingsSeries.unit.spec.js b/frontend/test/metabase/visualizations/components/settings/ChartNestedSettingsSeries.unit.spec.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3b1b01d8ebc050dcef77b392b3fdc317f6c02fcf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/test/metabase/visualizations/components/settings/ChartNestedSettingsSeries.unit.spec.js
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+import React from "react";
+import { mount } from "enzyme";
+
+// these tests use ChartSettings directly, but logic we're testing lives in ChartNestedSettingSeries
+import ChartSettings from "metabase/visualizations/components/ChartSettings";
+
+function getSeries(display) {
+  return [
+    {
+      card: { display, visualization_settings: {} },
+      data: {
+        rows: [["a", 1], ["b", 2]],
+        cols: [{ name: "foo" }, { name: "bar" }],
+      },
+    },
+  ];
+}
+describe("ChartNestedSettingSeries", () => {
+  it("shouldn't show line/area/bar buttons for row charts", () => {
+    const settings = mount(
+      <ChartSettings
+        series={getSeries("row")}
+        initial={{ section: "Display" }}
+      />,
+    );
+
+    expect(settings.find(".Icon-line")).toHaveLength(0);
+    expect(settings.find(".Icon-area")).toHaveLength(0);
+    expect(settings.find(".Icon-bar")).toHaveLength(0);
+  });
+
+  it("should show line/area/bar buttons for bar charts", () => {
+    const settings = mount(
+      <ChartSettings
+        series={getSeries("bar")}
+        initial={{ section: "Display" }}
+      />,
+    );
+
+    expect(settings.find(".Icon-line")).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(settings.find(".Icon-area")).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(settings.find(".Icon-bar")).toHaveLength(1);
+  });
+});