Habitat in West Virginia
Cliffs, ledges and rocky summits
Cliffs, ledges, rock outcrops, talus and rocky summits where the source does not name the rock. A named rock files the place under its own glade or outcrop type instead. 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 130
Natives first, plants found in fewer other habitats first.
- Pointed Broom SedgeCarex scoparia
- Mountain Sweet-pepperbushClethra acuminata
- Northern Toothache TreeZanthoxylum americanum
- Stiff AsterIonactis linariifolia
- Woodland StonecropSedum ternatum
- Goat's-rueTephrosia virginiana
- American Water-pennywortHydrocotyle americana
- Whitemouth DayflowerCommelina erecta var. erecta
- Bluejoint; Canada Reed GrassCalamagrostis canadensis var. canadensis
- Canada YewTaxus canadensis
- Globe FlatsedgeCyperus echinatus
- Summer BluetHoustonia purpurea
- Sidebeak Pencil-flowerStylosanthes biflora
- Cymose BeaksedgeRhynchospora recognita
- GalaxGalax urceolata
- Pinebarren Death-camasStenanthium leimanthoides
- Eastern HawthornCrataegus macrosperma
- Virginia CreeperParthenocissus quinquefolia
- Quaking AspenPopulus tremuloides
- Pennsylvania SedgeCarex pensylvanica
- Summer SedgeCarex aestivalis
- Northern White CedarThuja occidentalis
- Big BluestemAndropogon gerardi
- Lanceleaf BluetHoustonia purpurea var. calycosa
- Thymeleaf BluetHoustonia serpyllifolia
- Silky OatgrassDanthonia sericea
- Eastern Hay-scented FernSitobolium punctilobulum
- Dotted HawthornCrataegus punctata
- Porter's ReedgrassCalamagrostis porteri
- Meadow SpikemossSelaginella apoda
- Hay SedgeCarex argyrantha
- Goldmoss StonecropSedum acre
- Kenilworth IvyCymbalaria muralis
- Stringy StonecropSedum sarmentosum
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.