Habitat in West Virginia
Seeps and springs
Places where groundwater keeps the soil or rock wet, such as seepage slopes and spring runs. 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 177
Natives first, plants found in fewer other habitats first.
- White MonkshoodAconitum reclinatum
- Spreading RockcressArabis patens
- Spiranthes arcisepalaSpiranthes arcisepala
- Green False-helleboreVeratrum viride
- Hidden-fruit BladderwortUtricularia geminiscapa
- Tufted HairgrassDeschampsia cespitosa subsp. glauca
- Largeleaf Grass-of-ParnassusParnassia grandifolia
- Roundleaf SundewDrosera rotundifolia
- Tawny CottongrassEriophorum virginicum
- Woodland HorsetailEquisetum sylvaticum
- Southern Bog ClubmossLycopodiella appressa
- Strong QuillwortIsoetes valida
- American Golden-saxifrageChrysosplenium americanum
- Appalachian Filmy-fernVandenboschia boschiana
- Robin-runawayRubus repens
- Purple Stem Aster; Swamp Aster; Bristly AsterSymphyotrichum puniceum var. puniceum
- American Dog VioletViola labradorica
- Downy ServiceberryAmelanchier arborea
- Lanceleaf VioletViola lanceolata
- Black AshFraxinus nigra
- Inland SedgeCarex interior
- Beaked SedgeCarex utriculata
- Fox SedgeCarex vulpinoidea
- Slender SedgeCarex lasiocarpa var. americana
- Limestone BittercressCardamine douglassii
- Pennsylvania BittercressCardamine pensylvanica
- Mountain Meadow-rueThalictrum clavatum
- Narrow-panicle RushJuncus tweedyi
- Bog WillowherbEpilobium leptophyllum
- Limp MannagrassGlyceria laxa
- Rufous BulrushScirpus pendulus
- Slender MannagrassGlyceria melicaria
- Mad-dog SkullcapScutellaria lateriflora
- Marsh SkullcapScutellaria galericulata
- Virginia BunchflowerMelanthium virginicum
- White TurtleheadChelone glabra
- Intermediate Spike RushEleocharis intermedia
- Narrowleaf GentianGentiana linearis
- Northern Beech FernPhegopteris connectilis
- Brownish BeaksedgeRhynchospora capitellata
- Lesser Purple Fringed OrchidPlatanthera psycodes
- Purple Fringeless OrchidPlatanthera peramoena
- Ragged Fringed OrchidPlatanthera lacera
- Spring AvensGeum vernum
- Northern Nodding TrilliumTrillium cernuum
- Swamp SaxifrageMicranthes pensylvanica
- Marsh BellflowerPalustricodon aparinoides
- Short-awn Foxtail GrassAlopecurus aequalis var. aequalis
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.