Plants and Communities

the average annual minimum winter temperature can be used as a guide for which plants will survive in different regions of Virginia
Source: US Department of Agriculture, 2012 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map

Forestry in Virginia

Habitats and Species

Invasive Species in Virginia

Native Plants in Virginia

Plant Succession

Links

• Blue Ridge Wildflowers (Virginia)
• Carnivorous Plant FAQ: Field Trip to New Jersey and Virginia
• Current Results
• Total Number of Species Estimated in the World
• Defenders of Wildlife
• Biodiversity Center
• Saving Biodiversity: A Status Report on State Laws, Policies and Programs
• Endangered Ecosystems: A Status Report on America's Vanishing Habitat and Wildlife
• EPA - Environmental Education Center
• Digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora
• Digital Earth Watch
• Investigation: Measuring Old Growth Forest Loss
• Effects of Mid-Rotation Release on Forest Structure, Wildlife Habitat, and Pine Yield (masters thesis, Virginia Tech, by Kyla Ingeborg Cheynet)
• E.Nature
• habitat guides
• Flora of North America
• Flora of Virginia
• Flora of the Washington-Baltimore Area
• Guide to the Trees and Shrubs of Virginia
• Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps
• Aggregated Kuchler Types: (Post-Transition) and (Pre-Transition)
• Forest Cover in Eastern United States Showing Protected Forest Areas
• Biological Resources Information - Virginia (from National Biological Information Infrastructure)
• Terrestrial Vegetation of the United States: The National Vegetation Classification System
• Association for Biodiversity Information
• Species-Habitat Associations and Succession Vectors for Small Mammal and Land Bird Populations on Assateague Island National seashore
• A Climate Change Atlas for 80 Forest Tree Species of the Eastern United States
• Mid-Atlantic Integrated Assessment (MAIA)
• Mid-Atlantic Tour
• Ecological Resources - Wetlands
• reports - An Ecological Assessment of the United States Mid-Atlantic Region: A Landscape Atlas
• How forests are being nibbled to death by DUCs, and what to do about it from Forest Fragmentation conference
• Plant Invaders of Mid-Atlantic Natural Areas (National Park Service)
• Virginia Native Plant Society
• "plant of the year" photos
• Virginia Native Plant Registry
• Virginia Department of Education
• Virginia's Natural Resources Education Guide
• Virginia's Native Plants
• Virginia Native Plant Society
• Virginia Working Landscapes
• Virtual Tour: State Arboretum of Virginia (at Blandy Experimental Farm)
• Virginia Gap Analysis Project
• check out the overview of these state projects from The Mining Company Guide to Ecology
• Wild World Contest
• Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World
• First Place: How the Freshwater Areas around Pulaski, Virginia compare to the Hawaiian Marine Ecoregion by Dublin Middle School (Pulaski County, Virginia)
• Virginia Natural Heritage Program
• The Natural Communities of Virginia: Classification of Ecological Community Groups (Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation Division of Natural Heritage - Natural Heritage Technical Report 01-1, January 2001)

jack-in-the-pulpit at Jamestown Island