Mountain Pimpernel

Taenidia montana

Found in shale barrens and rocky woodlands over shale, greenstone, calcareous sandstone, and other calcareous and mafic rocks. Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Northern Tier edition What its natural habitat tells you

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Rare or protected plant. Specialist conservation planting; excluded from routine garden suggestions. Plant caution source

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At a glance

Not yet recorded · Height · Spread · Light · Soil · Life cycle · Leaves · Bloom

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Recorded in 5 West Virginia counties.

Natural habitats

Places it grows wild. Not a planting requirement. Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

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Limestone cedar glade. Shown: Pennyroyal Plain, Simpson County, Kentucky, a neighboring state.Cedar glade in the Pennyroyal Plain, Simpson County, Mason Brock (Masebrock), undated. Public domain. Source record.

Shale barrens

Steep, sun-baked slopes of loose shale with sparse oaks and Virginia pine and their own endemic wildflowers. Linked only where the source names shale barrens; calcareous shale stays with the limestone glades.

Glades, barrens and outcrops on mafic or serpentine rock

Open, thin-soil openings, outcrops and cliffs on dark, magnesium- or iron-rich rock such as serpentine, diabase or gabbro.

Forests and woodlands

Forest or woodland where the source does not say how moist or dry.

All habitats

Also found with this plant

Wildlife whose habitat models include habitats this plant grows in, in West Virginia. Shared habitat, not food. 127 animals.

Osprey
Pandion haliaetus
Birds. 4 shared habitats
Purple Finch
Carpodacus purpureus
Birds. 4 shared habitats
Red-tailed Hawk
Buteo jamaicensis
Birds. 4 shared habitats
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Regulus calendula
Birds. 4 shared habitats
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Accipiter striatus
Birds. 4 shared habitats
Spotted Sandpiper
Actitis macularius
Birds. 4 shared habitats
Tufted Titmouse
Baeolophus bicolor
Birds. 4 shared habitats
Turkey Vulture
Cathartes aura
Birds. 4 shared habitats
White-breasted Nuthatch
Sitta carolinensis
Birds. 4 shared habitats
Wild Turkey
Meleagris gallopavo
Birds. 4 shared habitats
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Coccyzus americanus
Birds. 4 shared habitats
Yellow-breasted Chat
Icteria virens
Birds. 4 shared habitats
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Dendroica coronata
Birds. 4 shared habitats
American Kestrel
Falco sparverius
Birds. 3 shared habitats
Baltimore Oriole
Icterus galbula
Birds. 3 shared habitats
Belted Kingfisher
Megaceryle alcyon
Birds. 3 shared habitats
Black-and-White Warbler
Mniotilta varia
Birds. 3 shared habitats
Black-capped Chickadee
Poecile atricapillus
Birds. 3 shared habitats
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Dendroica caerulescens
Birds. 3 shared habitats
Brown Thrasher
Toxostoma rufum
Birds. 3 shared habitats
Carolina Chickadee
Poecile carolinensis
Birds. 3 shared habitats
Cerulean Warbler
Dendroica cerulea
Birds. 3 shared habitats
Chimney Swift
Chaetura pelagica
Birds. 3 shared habitats
Eastern Screech-owl
Megascops asio
Birds. 3 shared habitats

All wildlife of West Virginia

Ecological relationships

Who uses this plant?

What these records mean

3CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including WV

Genus host records with ranges including WV · Taenidia

Papilio polyxenesBlack Swallowtail, Celery Caterpillar, Fennel Worm, Desert Black Swallowtail, Parsnip Swallowtail
Agonopterix clemensella
Agonopterix flavicomella

Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)