Plants > Fagaceae & Fagales
The White Oak (Quercus alba), revered as the undisputed patriarch of North America’s eastern deciduous hardwood forest and the state tree of three US states, is a monumental, long-lived broadleaf tree belonging to the beech and oak family Fagaceae within the...
Amphibians > Salamanders & Newts
The Eastern Newt (Notophthalmus viridescens), famously represented in its juvenile land-dwelling phase as the vivid ‘red eft’, is a widespread, ecologically fascinating salamander belonging to the family Salamandridae, native to the temperate forests and...
