On 22 September 2011the West Virginia Native Society was treated to a tour of the Gaudineer Scenic Area Loop Trail lead by Elizabeth Byers as part of the annual meeting. Elizabeth generously provided the participants with a check list of the likely to be found on this trip.

The following is a list of those plants seen In the drizzle that day by the group. Herbs continued Trees and Shrubs Osmorhiza claytonia Hairy Sweet Cicely Acer pensylvanicum Striped Maple Montana White Wood Sorrel Red Maple Pilea pumila Clearweed Sugar Maple Prunella vulgaris Heal‐all Acer spicatum Mountain Maple Rumex crispus Dock Yellow Birch Saxifraga micrathidifolia Lettuce Saxifrage American Beech Solidago curtisii Curtis’ Goldenrod Magnolia acuminata Cucumber magnolia Symphyotrichum prenanthoides Crooked –stem Aster Magnolia fraseri Mountain magnolia Trillium undulatum Painted Trillium Prunus serotina Black Cherry Tussilago farfara Coltsfoot Virburnum lantanoides Hobblebush Viola Violet

Viola rotundifolia Round Leaf Violet Herbs Urtica dioica Wild nettle Actaea pachypoda Doll’s Eyes

Arctium minus Common Burdock Mosses and Liverworts campyloptera Mountain Wood Fern Bazzania trilobata Three‐toothed Bazzania

Dryopteris intermedia Intermediate Shield Fern Dicranum scoparium Windswept Moss

Epifagus virginiana Beechdrops Hylocomium splendens Splendid Stair‐step Moss

Eurybia divaricata White Wood Aster Spagnum spp. Peat Moss

Galium triflorium Sweet scented Bedstraw Thuidium delicatulum Delicate Fern Moss

Glyceria striata Fowl Mannagrass

Impatiens capensis Spotted Jewelweed

Impatiens pallid Pale Jewelweed

Laportea canadensis Wood Nettle

Leersia virginica White Grass

Maianthemum canadense Wild Lily‐of –the Valley

Medeola virginiana Indian Cucumber‐root

Mitchella repens Partridge Berry