Habitat in West Virginia
Forests and woodlands
Forest or woodland where the source does not say how moist or dry. Schafale
- Plants
- 646
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in West Virginia. Not a planting list.
Most characteristic plants of this habitat 646
Natives first, plants found in fewer other habitats first.
- Striped Cream VioletViola striata
- Wild GeraniumGeranium maculatum
- Biennial BeeblossomGaura biennis
- American Vetch, Purple VetchVicia americana
- Kansas HawthornCrataegus coccinioides
- Mapleleaf ViburnumViburnum acerifolium
- Missouri GooseberryRibes missouriense
- Slippery ElmUlmus rubra
- Hairy Beard TonguePenstemon hirsutus
- Yellow Wild IndigoBaptisia tinctoria
- Mountain Paper BirchBetula cordifolia
- Shellbark HickoryCarya laciniosa
- Shortleaf PinePinus echinata
- Virginia PinePinus virginiana
- Clammy Ground-cherryPhysalis heterophylla
- Common SneezeweedHelenium autumnale
- Eastern Gray BeardtonguePenstemon canescens
- Maryland Golden-asterChrysopsis mariana
- Red Buckeye; Scarlet BuckeyeAesculus pavia var. pavia
- Shinyleaf MeadowsweetSpiraea betulifolia var. corymbosa
- Wright's PlantainPlantago wrightiana
- Bristly SarsaparillaAralia hispida
- Glade Wild QuinineParthenium auriculatum
- Largebract Tick-trefoilDesmodium cuspidatum
- Ohio BuckeyeAesculus glabra var. glabra
- Smooth Tick-trefoilDesmodium laevigatum
- Velvety Tick-trefoilDesmodium viridiflorum
- Balsam PoplarPopulus balsamifera
- Nodding OnionAllium cernuum
- Common HackberryCeltis occidentalis
- James's SedgeCarex jamesii
- Spreading DogbaneApocynum androsaemifolium
- Water-plantain SpearwortRanunculus ambigens
- Bristle-leaf SedgeCarex eburnea
- Eastern Woodland SedgeCarex blanda
- Flexuous White-edge SedgeCarex debilis var. rudgei
- Fuzzy Wuzzy SedgeCarex hirsutella
- Graceful SedgeCarex gracillima
- Mead's SedgeCarex meadii
- Midland SedgeCarex mesochorea
- Quill SedgeCarex tenera
- Roan Mountain SedgeCarex roanensis
- Smooth HydrangeaHydrangea arborescens
- Whitetinge SedgeCarex albicans var. albicans
- Yellowfruit SedgeCarex annectens
- Warty SpurgeEuphorbia spathulata
- American HazelnutCorylus americana
- Shale Barren BindweedCalystegia spithamaea subsp. stans
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)
Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.