Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests

Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests

Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests
The Eastern Great Lakes lowland forest belt — the Lake Ontario / upper St. Lawrence / Lake Erie basin from southern Ontario and Quebec south into New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and eastern Michigan. Sugar maple, beech, hemlock, and northern hardwoods dominate; lake-effect snow and humid summers buffer extremes near the shorelines. Garden-relevant for the long migratory bird and pollinator corridor along the lake margins.
RESOLVE 334
Nearctic
50,065 sq mi
Humid continental (Köppen Dfa/Dfb)
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
Estados / provincias
Ontario, Quebec, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan
Tipo de paisaje
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
Región vegetal
Nearctic
Huella de la región
50,065 sq mi
Rango de altitud
240 – 2,000 ft
Tipo de clima
Humid continental (Köppen Dfa/Dfb)
Presión sobre el hábitat
Nature Imperiled (Dinerstein NNH 4)
Usa esto como el patrón general de plantación para la región: Four-season forests of deciduous hardwoods — oak, maple, beech — often mixed with conifers, shaped by warm summers and cold winters. Trees leaf out in spring and color in autumn; the generally fertile soils have made these forests heavily settled and farmed. Para las decisiones de jardín, combina ese contexto con la lista de plantas de abajo y luego acota según las restricciones de luz, agua, suelo y tamaño maduro de tu sitio.

Range & origins

Ubicación de Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests en el mapa mundial
Marcador situado dentro del polígono RESOLVE 2017 en 44.5°N, 76.4°W.
La región a través del tiempo
Huella moderna
RESOLVE 2017 mapea 50,065 sq mi
Este límite es una huella ecológica moderna para Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests, no una línea permanente en el planeta. Resulta útil para el contexto actual de plantas y fauna porque sigue patrones recurrentes de vegetación, clima, relieve y perturbaciones.
Por qué aquí
Condiciones de Humid continental (Köppen Dfa/Dfb)
La región se ubica en el reino Nearctic y se clasifica como temperate broadleaf & mixed forests. La altitud, la humedad, el fuego, los suelos, las costas y el uso humano del suelo pueden hacer que el paisaje real sea más variado de lo que sugiere un único color en el mapa.
Presión de cambio
Nature Imperiled
Winter low temperatures are projected to rise faster here than in any other US-bordering ecoregion — a roughly full USDA zone shift by mid-century under SSP3-7.0 in the continental interior, less near the lake-moderated shorelines.

Colecciones de plantación

Recetas de plantación terminadas donde cada miembro puede con el rango climático de esta región. La insignia de ajuste usa la planta más sensible de la colección, así que una colección resistente es un punto de partida más seguro que cualquier ejemplar destacado por sí solo.
Resistente al clima · 2 plantas
Bright shade foundation
A part-shade planting with shrub structure and low foliage contrast.
Annabelle hydrangea
Coral bells
+4
Resistente al clima · 8 plantas
Climate-resilient natives for warming zones (eastern NA)
A pollinator-supporting palette of eastern North American natives with broad hardiness ranges and wide native distributions. Built for gardeners who want a planting that can handle warming zones without giving up wildlife value.
Switchgrass
Little bluestem
Common milkweed
Black-eyed Susan
Wild bergamot
Sweet Joe-Pye weed
Cutleaf coneflower
New England aster
+2
Resistente al clima · 6 plantas
Mediterranean drought-tolerant edible
A low-water edible palette of culinary herbs + a hardy grape for hot dry sunny sites. Mediterranean-origin plants thrive on neglect; their primary failure mode is overwatering, not underwatering.
English lavender
Rosemary
Garden sage
Oregano
Common thyme
Fox grape
+5
Resistente al clima · 9 plantas
Native pollinator border (eastern US)
A continuous-bloom native pollinator strip for eastern North America. Covers spring through frost with host + nectar plants spanning monarchs, native bees, hummingbirds, and specialist Lepidoptera. Little bluestem provides the matrix grass + Hesperiidae host.
Butterfly weed
Common milkweed
Purple coneflower
Wild bergamot
Scarlet bee balm
Little bluestem
Sweet Joe-Pye weed
Swamp sunflower
Smooth blue aster
Resistente al clima · 4 plantas
Sunny pollinator border
A durable sunny border with summer bloom, seedheads, and upright winter texture.
English lavender
Purple coneflower
Black-eyed Susan
Switchgrass

Regiones de plantación similares

Explora otras regiones con un ritmo similar de veranos calurosos y secos. Sus listas de plantas pueden sugerir especies y combinaciones que vale la pena comparar.
RESOLVE 328 - Nearctic
Allegheny Highlands forests
The Allegheny Highlands forests stretch across the Allegheny Plateau of Pennsylvania and New York, a hilly landscape of deeply cut river valleys, waterfalls, and—in the glaciated New York portion—the Finger Lakes. Under a cold temperate climate, pre-settlement forests were dominated by hemlock-white pine-northern hardwoods, with eastern hemlock and beech most abundant alongside sugar maple, red maple, birch, white ash, and black cherry. Eastern hemlock, the ecoregion's flagship species, is now declining across much of the region due to the introduced hemlock woolly adelgid, while over-abundant white-tailed deer suppress forest regeneration.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
Zonas 8b-9a
+7.2°F para 2070
28,229 sq mi
Nivel NNH 2
RESOLVE 329 - Nearctic
Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests
The Mixed Mesophytic — the most species-diverse temperate hardwood forest in North America — covers the Cumberland Plateau and adjacent unglaciated dissected uplands of West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, southern Ohio, southwestern Virginia, and eastern Tennessee. Sugar maple, American beech, tulip poplar, yellow buckeye, basswood, and white ash share cove-forest canopies with more than two dozen co-dominant species — a richness inherited from being ice-sheet-free during the Pleistocene.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
Zonas 9a-11a
+5.6°F para 2070
70,054 sq mi
Perfil editorial
Nivel NNH 2
RESOLVE 331 - Nearctic
Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests
The Blue Ridge province — the eastern spine of the southern Appalachians from southern Pennsylvania through northern Georgia. Cove hardwoods on protected slopes, oak-hickory mid-slope, northern hardwoods + spruce-fir on the highest peaks (Mt. Mitchell to 6,684 ft). Long the eastern US's wettest non-coastal region; many endemic plants tied to perched coves.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
Zonas 9a-12b
+5.4°F para 2070
63,065 sq mi
Perfil editorial
Nivel NNH 2
RESOLVE 332 - Nearctic
East Central Texas forests
The East Central Texas forests form a long, narrow temperate broadleaf and mixed forest ecoregion of roughly 52,600 km², lying almost entirely within Texas with a small extension into southeastern Oklahoma, between the eastern Piney Woods and the western prairies. Its signature landscape is the Post Oak Savanna over gently rolling terrain, dominated by post oak and blackjack oak alongside eastern redcedar and black hickory, with the Bastrop Lost Pines holding the westernmost stands of southern pine in the U.S. The climate is humid subtropical to warm temperate, with hot summers, mild winters, and annual rainfall of about 740–1,120 mm. Heavily converted to ranching and farmland, the ecoregion is considered critically fragmented: only about 1% is protected, and it shelters the endangered Houston toad and Attwater's prairie chicken.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
Zonas 10b-12b
+4.0°F para 2070
21,550 sq mi
Nivel NNH 4
RESOLVE 333 - Nearctic
Eastern Canadian Forest-Boreal transition
The Eastern Canadian Forest-Boreal transition is the broad east-west band between the northern hardwoods of New England-Acadian forests and the boreal black-spruce taiga to the north — covering much of southern Quebec, central New Brunswick, and the Ontario / Quebec near-boreal interior. Sugar maple, yellow birch, balsam fir, white spruce, and white birch are the canopy mix; the line between hardwood-dominant south and conifer-dominant north shifts visibly across the ecoregion. The region carries one of the highest projected mid-century warming signals in the temperate Western Hemisphere.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
Zonas 6b-8b
+10.2°F para 2070
122,775 sq mi
Perfil editorial
Nivel NNH 2
RESOLVE 335 - Nearctic
Gulf of St. Lawrence lowland forests
The Gulf of St. Lawrence lowland forests cover the maritime lowlands around the Gulf — Prince Edward Island, the Acadian and northern New Brunswick coast, Nova Scotia's low-elevation interior, the Magdalen Islands, the southern coast of the Gaspé, and adjacent Quebec lowlands. Mixed Acadian forest of balsam fir, red spruce, yellow birch, sugar maple, and white pine; maritime moderation softens the continental temperature extremes felt one ecoregion inland.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
Zonas 7b-8b
+8.8°F para 2070
13,961 sq mi
Perfil editorial
Nivel NNH 2

Subregiones de refinamiento nacional

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EPA Nivel III (solo EE. UU.) - 1 subregión
83 · Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands
Fuente: USGS / EPA vía Omernik (1987).

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RESOLVE 2017 Terrestrial Ecoregions (Dinerstein et al.)
Marco principal de ecorregiones
Respalda 4 campos
ID de RESOLVE
Bioma + reino
Área
Nivel NNH
Canada Plant Hardiness
Autoridad publicada de zonas de resistencia
Respalda 1 campo
Rango de zonas NRCan