One of the most biologically diverse
temperate forest regions on
earth,
the mixed
mesophytic is a product
of fertile
red calcareous soils
formed
from underlying
limestone, producing an
unusually diverse tree
flora, a
30 tree-species-suite of magnificence!
TREE SPECIES
- sugar maple (Acer
saccharum)
- beech (Fagus
grandifolia)
- tuliptree (Liriodendron tulipifera)
- basswood (Tilia
americana)
- northern red oak (Quercus rubra)
- cucumber tree (Magnolia
acuminata)
- black walnut (Juglans
nigra)
- eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis)
- white ash (Fraxinus
americana)
- sweetgum (Liquidambar
styraciflua)
- yellow buckeye (Aesculus flava)
- white oak (Quercus
alba)
- northern red oak (Quercus rubra)
- chinkapin oak (Quercus
muehlenbergii)
- shagbark hickory (Carya ovata)
- sugar maple (Acer saccharum)
- eastern red-cedar (Juniperus virginiana)
Along
with the forest there is a rich undergrowth of:
- ferns,
- fungi,
- herbaceous plants,
- shrubs
- small trees
The Mixed Mesophytic Forests occur west of the Appalachian Mountains in northwest Alabama, east central Tennessee, northeastern Kentucky, western North Carolina, most of West
Virginia, southeastern Ohio and southwestern Pennsylvania
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