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Observe plants and animals on the Appalachian Trail

 

  

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Plants and Animals

The A.T. Seasons program is focused on monitoring plants and animals that have large geographic ranges and are relatively common along the Trail. Our Primary species are those which we will compare trail-wide, while our Secondary species will only be used for local projects.  Click on the links below to learn more about each of these species in Nature's Notebook.

Primary Secondary
(for trail-wide comparisons) (for local comparisons)

 

Trees

Red Maple, Acer rubrum Pin Cherry, Prunus pensylvanica
Sugar Maple, Acer saccherum Flowering Dogwood, Cornus florida
White Oak, Quercus alba Yellow Birch, Betula alleghaniensis
Northern Red Oak, Quercus rubra American Beech, Fagus grandifolia

 

Shrubs and Herbs

Spring Beauty, Claytonia virginica  Trout Lily, Erythronium americanum
Canada Mayflower, Maianthemum canadense  Blue-bead Lily, Clintonia borealis
May-Apple, Podophyllum peltatusm  Bunchberry, Cornus canadensis
Erect Trillium, Trillium erectum  
Painted Trillium, Trillium undulatum  
Hobblebush, Viburnum alnifolium (lantanoides)  

 

 

 

 


 

Animals

Black-Throated Blue Warbler, Dendroica caerulescens
Listen here
Black-Throated Green Warbler, Dendroica virens Listen here
Winter Wren, Troglodytes hiemalis Listen here
Black-Capped Chickadee, Poecile atricapillua Listen here
Eastern Tent Caterpillar, Malacosoma americanum (tents)  
Spring Peeper, Pseudacris crucifer (chorus)
Listen here
Wood Frog, Rana sylvatica (chorus) Listen here

 
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