Central-Southern Cascades Forests

Central-Southern Cascades Forests

Central-Southern Cascades Forests
The Central-Southern Cascades — the volcanic spine of southern Washington, all of Oregon, and the very northern tip of California (Mt. Rainier, Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Hood, Mt. Jefferson, the Three Sisters, Crater Lake, Mt. Shasta). Wet west-slope forests dominated by Douglas fir, western hemlock, and Pacific silver fir; drier east-slope forests of ponderosa pine and lodgepole. High-elevation subalpine fir, mountain hemlock, and whitebark pine cap the volcanic peaks.
RESOLVE 352
Nearctic
22,689 sq mi
Oceanic to alpine (Köppen Csb/Cfb mid, Dsb/Dsc upper)
Temperate Conifer Forests
États / provinces
Washington, Oregon, California
Type de paysage
Temperate Conifer Forests
Région végétale
Nearctic
Empreinte de la région
22,689 sq mi
Plage d'altitude
1,000 – 14,411 ft
Type de climat
Oceanic to alpine (Köppen Csb/Cfb mid, Dsb/Dsc upper)
Pression sur l'habitat
Nature Could Reach Half Protected (Dinerstein NNH 2)
Utilisez ceci comme schéma général de plantation pour la région : Temperate forests dominated by evergreen conifers, from coastal rainforests to montane pine and fir stands. Adapted to cool, moist or seasonally dry climates, they include some of the tallest and longest-lived trees on the planet. 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 Central-Southern Cascades Forests sur la carte du monde
Repère placé à l’intérieur du polygone RESOLVE 2017 à 44.9°N, 122.2°W.
La région à travers le temps
Empreinte moderne
RESOLVE 2017 cartographie 22,689 sq mi
Cette limite est une empreinte écologique moderne pour Central-Southern Cascades 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 Oceanic to alpine (Köppen Csb/Cfb mid, Dsb/Dsc upper)
La région se situe dans le règne Nearctic et est classée comme temperate conifer 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
Mt. Rainier and the other Cascade volcanoes are losing glacier mass at accelerating rates; the loss of late-summer meltwater changes downstream river thermal regimes that the native salmon and riparian flora depend on.

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 345 - Nearctic
Alberta-British Columbia foothills forests
The Alberta-British Columbia foothills forests form a transitional temperate conifer ecoregion straddling the boundary between the Rocky Mountains to the west and the Mid-Canada boreal plains to the east, lying mostly in Alberta with a portion in British Columbia. Mixed forests of lodgepole pine, quaking aspen, jack pine, and white spruce dominate, with balsam poplar, paper birch, and balsam fir also common, while wetter sites support black spruce and tamarack. The climate is subhumid and cold temperate, with short summers averaging 13-15C, cold winters from -17.5 to -10C, and annual precipitation of roughly 400-600 mm. Heavily altered by agriculture, logging, and oil and gas development, only about 1% of the ecoregion holds protected status.
Temperate Conifer Forests
Zones 6b-7b
+5.6°F d’ici 2070
46,764 sq mi
Niveau NNH 2
RESOLVE 346 - Nearctic
Arizona Mountains forests
The Arizona Mountains forests — the sky-island and Mogollon Rim forest belt of central and eastern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico, and a thin strip in adjacent Mexico. Elevation banding from desert grassland and pinyon-juniper through ponderosa pine + Gambel oak, Douglas fir + aspen + white fir at higher elevations, and isolated subalpine spruce-fir on the highest peaks (Humphreys Peak, Mt. Baldy). The 'Madrean sky islands' on the southern edge connect biotic elements of the Sierra Madre Occidental with the Southwest US.
Temperate Conifer Forests
Zones 8a-11b
+3.7°F d’ici 2070
42,830 sq mi
Profil éditorial
Niveau NNH 4
RESOLVE 347 - Nearctic
Atlantic coastal pine barrens
The Atlantic coastal pine barrens — the fire-dependent pitch pine + scrub oak ecosystem of the New Jersey Pinelands, Long Island Pine Barrens, Cape Cod, and smaller patches across coastal Massachusetts and adjacent Rhode Island / Connecticut / Delaware. Sandy, acidic, nutrient-poor soils plus historic frequent fire produced the open canopy and rich heath / sedge understory. The NJ Pinelands National Reserve protects the largest remnant.
Temperate Conifer Forests
Zones 8b-11a
+5.7°F d’ici 2070
5,517 sq mi
Profil éditorial
Niveau NNH 3
RESOLVE 348 - Nearctic
Blue Mountains forests
The Blue Mountains forests cover the elevated interior of northeastern Oregon and adjacent southeastern Washington — a Pacific-Northwest-but-not-coastal landscape of ponderosa pine, Douglas fir, grand fir, and western larch on the uplands, with sagebrush-steppe filling the lower valleys. Drier and more continental than the western Cascades; the region's plant palette is closer to the Northern Rockies' inland-PNW look than to the rainforest west of the crest.
Temperate Conifer Forests
Zones 8b-9b
+4.4°F d’ici 2070
27,315 sq mi
Profil éditorial
Niveau NNH 3
RESOLVE 349 - Nearctic
British Columbia coastal conifer forests
The British Columbia Coastal Conifer Forests ecoregion spans the mainland Coast Mountains of British Columbia, just inland of the outer Pacific coast, across the Pacific and Kitimat Ranges to elevations near 4,000 meters. Conifers dominate, especially Douglas-fir and western hemlock communities alongside western red cedar, amabilis fir, and Alaskan yellow cedar in subalpine zones. The wet maritime climate brings annual precipitation from about 1,500 mm at lower elevations to 3,400 mm higher up, falling mostly in winter, with drier summers. Lowland forests are notably rich in epiphytes, fungi, amphibians, and invertebrates, and the Great Bear Rainforest here holds ancient stands representing a quarter of the world's coastal temperate rainforest.
Temperate Conifer Forests
Zones 7a-11a
+3.6°F d’ici 2070
42,676 sq mi
Niveau NNH 2
RESOLVE 350 - Nearctic
Central British Columbia Mountain forests
The Central British Columbia Mountain forests stretch northwest-to-southeast across north-central British Columbia, east of the Coast Mountains, spanning ranges such as the Omineca, Skeena, Stikine, and Hart at elevations from 700 to 2,400 metres. Low slopes carry western red cedar, western hemlock, lodgepole pine, aspen, and spruce, grading into subalpine Engelmann spruce and fir and, on the highest ground, alpine tundra. The climate is subarctic, with a mean annual temperature near 2°C, summers around 12°C, and cold winters. The grizzly bear is the flagship species, but only about 6% of the ecoregion is protected, leaving it exposed to intensive logging.
Temperate Conifer Forests
Zones 7a-11a
+4.2°F d’ici 2070
53,825 sq mi
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
4 · Cascades
Source : USGS / EPA via Omernik (1987).

Sources et citations

Citer cette page
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Plotwright. (n.d.). Central-Southern Cascades Forests (Central-Southern Cascades Forests). Retrieved 2026, June 24, from https://plotwright.com/regions/resolve-352
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