1922] Forest Types 1^^ 



PHYSIOGRAPHIC AREAS AND CHIEF ASSOCIATED FOREST TYPES 

 IN APPALACHIANS 



Canadian Life Zone 



Highest crests (over 6,000 feet, in North Carolina and Tennessee). 

 Eed spruce (subalpine). 

 Alnus viridis. 



Rhododendron catawbiense. 

 High crests and thin-soiled upper slopes (5,500 to 6,000 feet, in North 

 Carolina and Tennessee; over 3,500 feet in northern West Virginia. 

 Eed spruce, qualities 4 and 5. 

 Southern balsam, qualities 4 and 5. 

 Medium slopes. 



Eed spruce, qualities 3 and 4. 

 Lower slopes and valleys (within the Canadian zone) (4,000 to 5,500 feet, 

 in North Carolina and Tennessee; over 3,000 feet in northern West 

 Virginia). 

 Eed spruce, quality 2. 

 (Spruce and yellow birch, intergrading) . 

 (Spruce and hemlock, intergrading). 

 Swamps. 



Black spruce and southern balsam. 



Alleghanian Area of Transition Life Zone 



Very high crests (over 5,000 feet, in North Carolina and Tennessee; over 

 2,500 feet in northern West Virginia). 



Beech pure, quality 4. 



Eed oak pure, quality sub 5. 



Chestnut pure, quality 5. 

 High crests. 



Chestnut pure, quality 5. 



Chestnut oak pure, quality 5. 



Scrub oak, quality sub 5. 



Eed oak pure, qualities 4 and 5. 

 Lower crests. 



Spruce pine — chestnut oak, quality 4. 



Mountain pine— black oak, quality 4. 



Chestnut oak pure, qualities 4 and 5. 



Scrub oak, quality sub 5. 



Yellow poplar— black oak— white hickory, quality 4. 



High slopes, north and west aspects. 



Yellow buckeye— sugar maple— yellow birch, qualities 2 and 3. 

 Beech— yellow birch— sugar maple, quality 3. 

 Hemlock — 'birch, qualities 2 and 3. 



