Habitat in West Virginia
Moist forests
Forests on moist but not wet ground, such as rich slopes and ravines. Schafale
- Plants
- 328
- Birds
- 111
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in West Virginia. Not a planting list.
- Flowering DogwoodCornus florida
- Gorge GoldenrodSolidago faucibus
- Gray DogwoodCornus racemosa
- Mountain HollyIlex montana
- Rosebay RhododendronRhododendron maximum
- Slender Flat-top GoldenrodEuthamia caroliniana
- Hairy Heart Leaf AsterSymphyotrichum drummondii
- Heartleaf AsterSymphyotrichum cordifolium
- Smooth Blue AsterSymphyotrichum laeve
- White Arrowleaf AsterSymphyotrichum urophyllum
- Cumberland AzaleaRhododendron cumberlandense
- Pink AzaleaRhododendron periclymenoides
- Smooth Yellow VioletViola pubescens var. scabriuscula
- Red Oak; Northern Red OakQuercus rubra var. rubra
- Shumard OakQuercus shumardii
- White OakQuercus alba
- Hairy Fleabane; Robins PlantainErigeron pulchellus var. pulchellus
- Striped MapleAcer pensylvanicum
- Sugar MapleAcer saccharum var. saccharum
- Smooth Arrow WoodViburnum recognitum
- Witherod ViburnumViburnum nudum var. cassinoides
- Dodge's HawthornCrataegus dodgei
- Golden RagwortPackera aurea
- Pear HawthornCrataegus calpodendron
- Hollow Joe-pye-weedEutrochium fistulosum
- Roundleaf RagwortPackera obovata
- Roundleaf Yellow VioletViola rotundifolia
- Sugar MapleAcer saccharum var. schneckii
- Sweet Scented Joe Pye WeedEutrochium purpureum var. purpureum
- White SnakerootAgeratina altissima
- Allegheny ServiceberryAmelanchier laevis
- American Dog VioletViola labradorica
- Appalachian VioletViola appalachiensis
- Arrowleaf VioletViola sagittata
- Downy ServiceberryAmelanchier arborea
- LeConte's VioletViola affinis
- Long-spurred VioletViola rostrata
- Southern Woodland VioletViola hirsutula
- Striped Cream VioletViola striata
- Sweet White VioletViola blanda
- Threepart VioletViola tripartita
- Appalachian GooseberryRibes rotundifolium
- Frostweed; White CrownbeardVerbesina virginica var. virginica
- Mapleleaf ViburnumViburnum acerifolium
- Prickly GooseberryRibes cynosbati
- Wild Black CurrantRibes americanum
- JumpseedPersicaria virginiana
- American PersimmonDiospyros virginiana
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in West Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 96
- Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- American WoodcockScolopax minor
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
- Barred OwlStrix varia
- Bewick's WrenThryomanes bewickii
- Black VultureCoragyps atratus
- Black-and-White WarblerMniotilta varia
- Black-billed CuckooCoccyzus erythropthalmus
- Black-capped ChickadeePoecile atricapillus
- Black-throated Blue WarblerDendroica caerulescens
- Black-throated Green WarblerDendroica virens
- Blackburnian WarblerDendroica fusca
- Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
- Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Blue-headed VireoVireo solitarius
- Blue-winged WarblerVermivora pinus
- Brown CreeperCerthia americana
- Brown ThrasherToxostoma rufum
- Brown-headed CowbirdMolothrus ater
- Canada WarblerWilsonia canadensis
- Carolina ChickadeePoecile carolinensis
- Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Cerulean WarblerDendroica cerulea
- Chestnut-sided WarblerDendroica pensylvanica
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Chuck-will's-widowCaprimulgus carolinensis
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common RavenCorvus corax
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
- Downy WoodpeckerPicoides pubescens
- Eastern BluebirdSialia sialis
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- Eastern Wood-peweeContopus virens
- Eurasian Collared-doveStreptopelia decaocto
Near water in this habitat 15
These use it only close to water, such as stream banks for nesting.
- Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterus
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- Louisiana WaterthrushSeiurus motacilla
- Northern ParulaParula americana
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Prothonotary WarblerProtonotaria citrea
- Red-shouldered HawkButeo lineatus
- Rusty BlackbirdEuphagus carolinus
- Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
- Swainson's WarblerLimnothlypis swainsonii
- VeeryCatharus fuscescens
- Yellow-billed CuckooCoccyzus americanus
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.