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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
This category contains the native flora of West Virginia as defined by the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions.Taxa of the lowest rank are always included; taxa of higher ranks (e.g. genus) are only included if monotypic or endemic.
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 .
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 .
In 1919, Frederick V. Coville called attention to the threatened state of the plant in an article in Science. While investigating the species for horticultural purposes, he only found two herbarium specimens, those of Baird and Canby. [15] (Coville apparently did not locate Kinn's West Virginia specimen, preserved at the Muhlenberg Herbarium ...
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 ...
Cross section of the Mingo Oak's trunk on display at West Virginia University. The Mingo Oak was the largest living white oak; [3] [7] [23] and with the exception of the state's box huckleberries (Gaylussacia brachycera), it was the oldest living flora specimen in West Virginia. [3] [5] [7] The tree was referred to as the "mighty monarch of the ...
Sphagnum with the carnivorous Sarracenia purpurea, also called the 'purple pitcher plant'.. As with West Virginia's remote mountain forests, the farms and lands with meadows and woodlots near urban areas also hold whitetail deer, chipmunks, raccoons, skunks, groundhogs, opossums, weasels, field mice, flying squirrels, cotton-tail rabbits, gray foxes, red foxes, gray squirrels, red squirrels ...