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Sauratown Mountains
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Piedmont
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Appalachian Mountains
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The prominent ridges and knobs of the Sauratown Mountains rise more than 1000 feet above the rolling Piedmont (45) surface. Sometimes called monadnocks or inselbergs, these isolated mountain outliers are formed in part by their caps of erosion-resistant quartzite. The region has both Piedmont and Blue Ridge vegetation communities: mostly oak and oak-pine forests with some Canadian and Carolina hemlock in moist areas. Other mountain flora found here include rhododendron, azalea, galax, mountain laurel, pitch pine, table mountain pine, and various ferns.
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Plants
Sassafras albidum
SPECIES ·
“Sassafras”, “Sassafras Officinale”
3
Observations
JAN - DEC
Oxydendrum arboreum
SPECIES ·
“Sourwood”
3
Observations
JAN - DEC
Great Laurel
Rhododendron maximum (species)
3
Observations
JAN - DEC
Catawba Rosebay
Rhododendron latoucheae (species),
“Catawba Rhododendron”, “Mountain Rose Bay”, “Purple-Laurel”
3
Observations
JAN - DEC
Butterfly Weed
Asclepias tuberosa (species),
“Butterfly Milkweed”
2
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Animals
Pickerel Frog
Lithobates palustris (species)
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
Lithobates clamitans
SPECIES ·
“Green Frog”
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
Common Box Turtle
Terrapene carolina (species),
“Eastern Box Turtle”, “Florida Box Turtle”, “American Box Turtle”, “Mexican Box Turtle”, “Yucatan Box Turtle”
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
Common Garter Snake
Thamnophis sirtalis (species)
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
Eastern Fence Lizard
Sceloporus undulatus (species),
“Fence Lizard”, “Plateau Lizard”, “Prairie Lizard”
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
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Birds
Turkey Vulture
Cathartes aura (species)
1,047
Observations
JAN - DEC
Carolina Wren
Thryothorus ludovicianus (species)
1,022
Observations
JAN - DEC
Carolina Chickadee
Poecile carolinensis (species)
938
Observations
JAN - DEC
Broad-Winged Hawk
Buteo platypterus (species)
856
Observations
JAN - DEC
Tufted Titmouse
Baeolophus bicolor (species),
“Parus Bicolor”
839
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Insects
Chinese Mantis
Tenodera sinensis (species)
2
Observations
JAN - DEC
Tachopteryx thoreyi
SPECIES ·
“Gray Petaltail”
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
Ebony Jewelwing
Calopteryx maculata (species)
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
Menecles insertus
SPECIES
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
Chortophaga viridifasciata
SPECIES
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
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Sauratown Mountains
Sauratown Mountains
Sauratown Mountains
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