Habitat in West Virginia
Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone
Open, thin-soil openings and rock on limestone, dolomite or other lime-rich rock, including cedar glades. Schafale
- Plants
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Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in West Virginia. Not a planting list.
Most characteristic plants of this habitat 102
Natives first, plants found in fewer other habitats first.
- Composite DropseedSporobolus compositus var. compositus
- Pennsylvania PellitoryParietaria pensylvanica
- Canada RockcressBorodinia canadensis
- Side Oats Grama; Sideoats GramaBouteloua curtipendula var. curtipendula
- American HarebellCampanula rotundifolia
- White Blue-eyed-grassSisyrinchium albidum
- Ebony SpleenwortAsplenium platyneuron
- Fimbristylis puberulaFimbristylis puberula
- Allegheny-vineAdlumia fungosa
- Three-flower MelicgrassMelica nitens
- Rough Rattlesnake RootPrenanthes aspera
- Virginia NailwortParonychia virginica
- Dwarf HackberryCeltis tenuifolia
- Earleaf False FoxgloveAgalinis auriculata
- Eastern Red CedarJuniperus virginiana
- American BarberryBerberis canadensis
- Ashy HydrangeaHydrangea cinerea
- Northern Toothache TreeZanthoxylum americanum
- Wiry PanicgrassPanicum flexile
- Grooved Yellow FlaxLinum sulcatum
- Leonard's SkullcapScutellaria parvula var. missouriensis
- Canada YewTaxus canadensis
- Wafer Ash; Hop TreePtelea trifoliata var. trifoliata
- Hair-awn MuhlyMuhlenbergia capillaris
- Lanceleaf ScurfpeaOrbexilum onobrychis
- Smooth RockcressBorodinia laevigata
- Mountain PimpernelTaenidia montana
- Northern Maidenhair FernAdiantum pedatum
- Fragrant Sumac; Squawbush; Squaw BushRhus aromatica var. aromatica
- Narrowleaf VervainVerbena simplex
- Cooper's MilkvetchAstragalus neglectus
- Whorled MilkweedAsclepias verticillata
- Green MilkweedAsclepias viridiflora
- Rock ButtercupRanunculus micranthus
- Northern White CedarThuja occidentalis
- Lyreleaf SageSalvia lyrata
- Lanceleaf BluetHoustonia purpurea var. calycosa
- Wafer Ash; Hop TreePtelea trifoliata var. mollis
- River OatsChasmanthium latifolium
- Wild HyacinthCamassia scilloides
- Glade SpurgeEuphorbia purpurea
- Eastern Shooting-starPrimula meadia
- Hairy Wild-petuniaRuellia humilis
- Mexican MuhlyMuhlenbergia mexicana
- Common NinebarkPhysocarpus opulifolius var. opulifolius
- Cut-leaf GermanderTeucrium botrys
- Prairie-tea CrotonCroton monanthogynus
- Ashy SunflowerHelianthus mollis
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in West Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
No wildlife recorded in this habitat in West Virginia yet.
Sources
- Schafale, Guide to the Natural Communities of North Carolina, Fourth Approximation (NC Natural Heritage Program, 2012) habitat description
- Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition, habitat text phone app
- NC Parks species accounts
- USDA Forest Service Fire Effects Information System (reviewed notes)
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001)
- NatureServe Explorer ecological systems (CC BY 4.0)
- Cedar glade in the Pennyroyal Plain, Simpson County, Mason Brock (Masebrock) habitat picture
Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.