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High Mountains
Ecoregion
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Blue Ridge
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Appalachian Mountains
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TN
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The High Mountains ecoregion includes several disjunct high-elevation areas generally above 4500 feet. The region has a more severe, boreal-like climate than surrounding regions, with wind and ice affecting vegetation, and it has frigid soils rather than mesic soils. Evergreen red spruce and Fraser fir forests are found at the higher elevations, and red oak forests and northern hardwood forests with beech, yellow birch, yellow buckeye, and sugar maple are common. The spruce-fir forests have been affected by the balsam wooly adelgid, a non-native insect that kills mature Fraser firs, and some forest growth declines are possibly linked to air pollutants. Heath balds dominated by evergreen rhododendron and mountain laurel, and grassy
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Plants
Cain’s Reedgrass
Calamagrostis cainii (species)
195
Observations
JAN - DEC
Scarlet Beebalm
Monarda didyma (species),
“Oswego Tea”
38
Observations
JAN - DEC
Fraser Fir
Abies fraseri (species),
“Fraser's Fir”, “She Balsam”
34
Observations
JAN - DEC
Hobblebush
Viburnum lantanoides (species)
33
Observations
JAN - DEC
Clintonia borealis
SPECIES ·
“Bluebead”
29
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Animals
American Red Squirrel
Tamiasciurus hudsonicus (species),
“Red Squirrel”, “Mountain Weasel”, “Mount Graham Red Squirrel”, “American Red Sqirrel”
11
Observations
JAN - DEC
Ring-Necked Snake
Diadophis punctatus (species),
“Ringneck Snake”
4
Observations
JAN - DEC
White-Tailed Deer
Odocoileus virginianus (species),
“Dama Virginiana”, “Odocoileus Spelaeus”, “Key Deer”, “Key Deer Toy Deer”
4
Observations
JAN - DEC
Seal Salamander
Desmognathus monticola (species)
3
Observations
JAN - DEC
Spring Salamander
Gyrinophilus porphyriticus (species)
2
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Birds
Dark-Eyed Junco
Junco hyemalis (species)
11,688
Observations
JAN - DEC
Eastern Towhee
Pipilo erythrophthalmus (species),
“Rufous-Sided Towhee”
7,881
Observations
JAN - DEC
Blue-Headed Vireo
Vireo solitarius (species),
“Solitary Vireo”
6,867
Observations
JAN - DEC
American Robin
Turdus migratorius (species)
6,279
Observations
JAN - DEC
Red-Breasted Nuthatch
Sitta canadensis (species)
6,220
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Insects
Parapsyche apicalis
SPECIES
20
Observations
JAN - DEC
Homochlodes disconventa
SPECIES
15
Observations
JAN - DEC
Agriphila ruricolellus
SPECIES ·
“Lesser Vagabond Sod Webworm”
15
Observations
JAN - DEC
Diarsia dislocata
SPECIES
14
Observations
JAN - DEC
Psilotreta frontalis
SPECIES
12
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Fungi
Umbilicaria mammulata
SPECIES ·
“Navel Lichen”
6
Observations
JAN - DEC
Lobaria pulmonaria
SPECIES ·
“Lungwort”, “Lung Lichen”
5
Observations
JAN - DEC
Ganoderma tsugae
SPECIES
2
Observations
JAN - DEC
Hoof Fungus
Fomes fomentarius (species),
“Tinder Fungus”
2
Observations
JAN - DEC
Scleroderma citrinum
SPECIES
2
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Taxonomy
Region
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Ecoregion
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Ecoregion
High Mountains
High Mountains
High Mountains
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