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The house at Traveller's Rest, near Kearneysville, is West Virginia's sole plantation house designated as a National Historic Landmark for its national-level historical significance. As of 2015, the majority of West Virginia's plantation houses remain under private ownership.
This is a list of trees naturalized in West Virginia. Norway maple (Acer platanoides) Sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus) Horse-chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) Tree of heaven (Ailanthus altissima) Northern catalpa (Catalpa speciosa) European larch (Larix decidua) Siberian larch (Larix sibirica) Osage orange (Maclura pomifera) White mulberry ...
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The environment of West Virginia encompasses terrain and ecosystems ranging from plateaus to mountains. Most of West Virginia lies within the Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests ecoregion , while the higher elevations along the eastern border and in the panhandle lie within the Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests .
Map of the Shenandoah Valley The Shenandoah Valley in autumn A poultry farm with the Blue Ridge Mountains in the background A farm in the fertile Shenandoah Valley. The Shenandoah Valley (/ ˌ ʃ ɛ n ə n ˈ d oʊ ə /) is a geographic valley and cultural region of western Virginia and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia in the United States.
For a list of food plants and other crops which were only introduced to Old World cultures as a result of the Columbian Exchange touched off by the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492, see New World crops. [1]
Venable, N. J.; West Virginia University Extension Service (1988), Selected Trees and Shrubs of West Virginia (PDF), West Virginia University Extension Service, archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-09-12
Cranberry Glades—also known simply as The Glades—are a cluster of five small, boreal-type bogs in southwestern Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States. This area, in the Allegheny Mountains at about 3,400 feet (1,000 m), is protected as the Cranberry Glades Botanical Area , part of the Monongahela National Forest .