Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests

Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests

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.
RESOLVE 331
Nearctic
63,065 sq mi
Humid subtropical to oceanic (Köppen Cfa lower, Cfb upper)
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
États / provinces
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia
Type de paysage
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
Région végétale
Nearctic
Empreinte de la région
63,065 sq mi
Plage d'altitude
800 – 6,684 ft
Type de climat
Humid subtropical to oceanic (Köppen Cfa lower, Cfb upper)
Pression sur l'habitat
Nature Could Reach Half Protected (Dinerstein NNH 2)
Utilisez ceci comme schéma général de plantation pour la région : 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. Pour vos décisions de jardin, associez ce contexte à la liste de plantes ci-dessous, puis affinez selon les contraintes de lumière, d'eau, de sol et de taille adulte de votre site.

Range & origins

Emplacement de Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests sur la carte du monde
Repère placé à l’intérieur du polygone RESOLVE 2017 à 36.0°N, 82.9°W.
La région à travers le temps
Empreinte moderne
RESOLVE 2017 cartographie 63,065 sq mi
Cette limite est une empreinte écologique moderne pour Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests, et non une ligne permanente sur la planète. Elle est utile pour le contexte actuel des plantes et de la faune car elle suit des schémas récurrents de végétation, de climat, de relief et de perturbations.
Pourquoi ici
Conditions de Humid subtropical to oceanic (Köppen Cfa lower, Cfb upper)
La région se situe dans le règne Nearctic et est classée comme temperate broadleaf & mixed forests. L'altitude, l'humidité, le feu, les sols, les côtes et l'utilisation humaine des terres peuvent tous rendre le paysage réel plus varié qu'une seule couleur de carte ne le laisse penser.
Pression du changement
Nature Could Reach Half Protected
High-elevation spruce-fir caps (Mt. Mitchell, Roan, Clingmans Dome) are the most climate-exposed habitat in the eastern US — projected warming pushes their viable range off the top of the available peaks.

Collections de plantation

Des recettes de plantation finalisées où chaque membre peut supporter la plage climatique de cette région. Le badge d'adaptation se base sur la plante la plus sensible de la collection, si bien qu'une collection résiliente est un point de départ plus sûr que n'importe quelle vedette isolée.
Résiliente au climat · 2 plantes
Bright shade foundation
A part-shade planting with shrub structure and low foliage contrast.
Annabelle hydrangea
Coral bells
+4
Résiliente au climat · 8 plantes
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
Résiliente au climat · 6 plantes
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
Résiliente au climat · 9 plantes
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
Résiliente au climat · 4 plantes
Sunny pollinator border
A durable sunny border with summer bloom, seedheads, and upright winter texture.
English lavender
Purple coneflower
Black-eyed Susan
Switchgrass

Régions de plantation similaires

Parcourez d'autres régions au rythme similaire d'étés chauds et secs. Leurs listes de plantes peuvent suggérer des espèces et des combinaisons à comparer.
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
Zones 8b-9a
+7.2°F d’ici 2070
28,229 sq mi
Niveau 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
Zones 9a-11a
+5.6°F d’ici 2070
70,054 sq mi
Profil éditorial
Niveau 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
Zones 10b-12b
+4.0°F d’ici 2070
21,550 sq mi
Niveau 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
Zones 6b-8b
+10.2°F d’ici 2070
122,775 sq mi
Profil éditorial
Niveau NNH 2
RESOLVE 334 - Nearctic
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.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
Zones 7a-9a
+8.6°F d’ici 2070
50,065 sq mi
Profil éditorial
Niveau NNH 4
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
Zones 7b-8b
+8.8°F d’ici 2070
13,961 sq mi
Profil éditorial
Niveau NNH 2

Sous-régions d'affinement national

Au sein de cette écorégion RESOLVE, les agences nationales reconnaissent des sous-régions plus détaillées. Plotwright attribue chaque polygone de sous-région au polygone RESOLVE qui le contient selon son centroïde.
EPA Niveau III (États-Unis uniquement) - 1 sous-région
66 · Blue Ridge
Source : USGS / EPA via Omernik (1987).

Sources et citations

Citer cette page
Pour les plans de cours, articles ou notes de plantation régionales qui utilisent cette page Plotwright. Pour citer le cadre d'écorégions sous-jacent ou un profil éditorial spécifique, utilisez les fiches de sources ci-dessous.
Plotwright. (n.d.). Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests (Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests). Retrieved 2026, June 24, from https://plotwright.com/regions/resolve-331
Sources pour cette région
Cette page cite d'abord Plotwright pour la vue compilée, puis répertorie les pages sources du cadre, du climat et de l'éditorial en amont afin que les lecteurs puissent citer directement le matériel d'origine.
RESOLVE 2017 Terrestrial Ecoregions (Dinerstein et al.)
Cadre principal des écorégions
Étaye 4 champs
Identifiant RESOLVE
Biome + règne
Superficie
Palier NNH
USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map
Autorité publiée des zones de rusticité
Étaye 1 champ
Plage de zones USDA