Characteristic Plant Species

 

Trees:

Acer rubrum (red maple)

Liriodendron tulipifera (yellow poplar)

Liquidambar styraciflua (sweetgum)

Nyssa sylvatica (black gum)

Quercus alba (white oak)

Ilex opaca (American holly)

Oxydendrum arboreum (sourwood)

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Shrubs:

Aronia arbutifolia (red chokeberry)

Rhododendron canescens (mtn azalea)

Rubus hispidus (swamp dewberry)

Smilax bona-nox (saw greenbrier)

Vaccinium fuscatum (black highbush blueberry)

Viburnum nudum (possumhaw)

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Herbs:

Carex debilis (white edge sedge)

Medeola virginiana (Indian cucumber root)

Mitchella repens (partrige berry)

Polygonatum biflorum (Solomon's seal)

Bartonia virginica (yellow screwstem)

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Ferns:

Osmunda regalis (royal fern)

Osmundastrum cinnamomea (cinnamon fern)

Thelypteris noveboracensis (New York fern)

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NatureServe Communities:

• Central Interior Highlands and Appalachian Sinkhole & Depression

       Pond (CES 202.018)

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• Cumberland Seepage Forest (CES 202.361)

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Plateau Wetlands

Plant Communities of Sewanee

 

Plateau Surface Habitats

• Plateau Surface

• Sandstone Outcrop and Bluff 

• Plateau Wetland

• Reservoir

• Plateau Open

• Lawn

• Former Agriculture

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Cove Habitats

• Cliff Face and Rockhouse

• Upper and Lower Slope Mesic

• Upper and Lower Slope Dry

• Limestone Outcrop and Glade

• Floodplain

• Cove Open