Plants and Animals

• 1,016 species of plants and 112 species of lichens formally documented
• 25 populations of 17 state-rare plant species documented historically
• Some of the plants disjunct from the higher mountains to the west:
  

  Black ash (Fraxinus nigra)
  Goldie's wood fern (Dryoteris goldiana)
  Slender mannagrass (Glyceria melicaria)
  Staghorn clubmoss (Lycopodium clavatum)
  Round-leaf orchid (Platanthera orbiculata)
  Great rhododendron (Rhododendron maxima)
  Northern starflower (Trientalis borealis)
  American false hellebore (Veratrum viride)

• American chestnut (Castanea dentata) regenerated from old rootstocks
• A globally rare tiger beetle (Cicindela patruela)
• Seven watch-listed species of damselflies and dragonflies
• Two state watch-listed groundwater amphipods
• Disjunct populations of timber rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus) and common ravens (Corvus corax)