Habitat in West Virginia
Northern hardwood forests
High mountain forests of beech, yellow birch and sugar maple, including boulderfield forests. Schafale
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Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in West Virginia. Not a planting list.
- Black CherryPrunus serotina var. serotina
- ChokecherryPrunus virginiana var. virginiana
- Fire CherryPrunus pensylvanica
- Smooth AzaleaRhododendron arborescens
- Mountain MapleAcer spicatum
- Sugar MapleAcer saccharum var. saccharum
- Witherod ViburnumViburnum nudum var. cassinoides
- Dotted HawthornCrataegus punctata
- Appalachian Joe-pye-weedEutrochium steelei
- Allegheny ServiceberryAmelanchier laevis
- HobblebushViburnum lantanoides
- American Fly-honeysuckleLonicera canadensis
- Mountain Paper BirchBetula cordifolia
- Red PinePinus resinosa
- Mountain Wood-asterEurybia chlorolepis
- Purple BurgamotMonarda media
- Narrowleaf RampsAllium tricoccum var. burdickii
- Appalachian Woodland SedgeCarex austrolucorum
- Necklace Spike SedgeCarex ormostachya
- Beaked Hazel Nut; Beaked HazelnutCorylus cornuta var. cornuta
- Red SprucePicea rubens
- Grove BluegrassPoa alsodes
- Old-pasture BluegrassPoa saltuensis
- Nerveless Woodland SedgeCarex leptonervia
- Northern Long SedgeCarex folliculata
- Roan Mountain SedgeCarex roanensis
- Summer SedgeCarex aestivalis
- Mountain WoodsorrelOxalis montana
- Whorled Wood-asterOclemena acuminata
- StarflowerTrientalis borealis
- Cow-parsnipHeracleum maximum
- Beaked DodderCuscuta rostrata
- Carolina Spring-beautyClaytonia caroliniana
- Lesser Purple Fringed OrchidPlatanthera psycodes
- Shriver's Frilly OrchidPlatanthera shriveri
- Goldie's Wood-fernDryopteris goldieana
- Marginal Wood-fernDryopteris marginalis
- Mountain Wood-fernDryopteris campyloptera
- Waxflower ShinleafPyrola elliptica
- Northern ShorthuskBrachyelytrum aristosum
- False Goat's-beardAstilbe biternata
- Daisyleaf MoonwortBotrychium matricariifolium
- Threeleaf GoldthreadCoptis trifolia
- Tree Ground-pineDendrolycopodium dendroideum
- Bluebead-lilyClintonia borealis
- Meehan's MintMeehania cordata
- Speckled Wood-lilyClintonia umbellulata
- Spotted Coral Root; Summer Coral RootCorallorhiza maculata var. maculata
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.