Habitat in West Virginia
Sinkhole ponds
Ponds and wet depressions in limestone sinkholes of the interior valleys and plateaus (karst), separate from the Coastal Plain's limesink ponds. Weakley
- Plants
- 10
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in West Virginia. Not a planting list.
- Pin OakQuercus palustris
- Clasping-leaf St. John's-wortHypericum gymnanthum
- Northern St. John's-wortHypericum boreale
- Rough Hedge-nettleStachys aspera
- Lowland LoosestrifeLysimachia hybrida
- Creeping Manna GrassGlyceria acutiflora
- Torrey's Bulrush, Torrey's ThreesquareSchoenoplectus torreyi
- Branched Bur ReedSparganium androcladum
- Snail-seed PondweedPotamogeton bicupulatus
- Toothed FlatsedgeCyperus dentatus
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
- Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition, habitat wording 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.