Department of Conservation and Recreation Department of Conservation and Recreation
Conserve. Protect. Enjoy.
DCR Logo
Mobile Menu
Search DCR Site
Facebook Twitter YouTube Instagram LinkedIn
About DCR
 
State Parks
 
Natural
Heritage
Soil and Water
Conservation
Recreation
Planning
Dam Safety and
Floodplains
Land
Conservation
  • Natural Heritage
  • About Natural Heritage
    • Overview, Mission
    • Natural Heritage Inventory
    • Community Ecology Program
    • Healthy Waters Program
    • Information Management
    • Environmental Review
    • Natural Area Protection
    • Stewardship
    • Staff
    • Internships
  • Natural Area Preserves
    • Public Access Guide (PDF)
    • Special Events and Hunting
    • Natural Area Research
  • Rare Species and Natural Communities
    • Rare Species and Natural Community Search
    • Rare Species and Natural Community Lists
    • Natural Communities of Virginia
    • Locality Summary Maps
    • Rare Butterfly and Dragonfly Atlas
  • Information Services
    • Info Services Order Form
    • Locality Assistance Program
    • NH Data Explorer
    • Species and Community Search
    • ConservationVision and Green Infrastructure
    • Telecommunication Towers (PDF)
    • Conservation Lands Database
    • Wetlands Catalog
    • Species Habitat Modeling
  • Pollinator Smart Solar Site Portal
    • Comprehensive Manual (PDF)
    • Scorecard Templates
    • Virginia Native Plant Finder
  • Native Plants
    • Benefits
    • Natives vs. Aliens
    • Buying and Growing
    • Virginia's Physiographic Provinces
    • Native Plant Finder
    • Flora of Virginia
    • Policy 151 - Plantings on Department Lands
  • Invasive Plants
    • Invasive Plant List
    • What You Can Do
    • Factsheets
    • Invasive Species Working Group
  • Invertebrates
    • Monarch butterflies
  • Caves/Karst
    • Cave Board
    • Cave and Karst Trail
  • Publications
    • Flora of Virginia
    • Peer Reviewed Papers
    • Enews
    • Brochures and Factsheets
    • NH Plan
Home » Natural Heritage » Factsheets, Brochures and Books

Factsheets and Brochures

Factsheets and brochures have been developed for many of the natural resources monitored by the Natural Heritage Program as well as conservation and management activities of the program. A majority of these factsheets are available on line. You can click on any of the hyperlinks below to view, save and/or print the factsheet; use the back button on your browser to return to the list. Factsheets and brochures can be printed directly from the webpage in any quantity.

Hardcopies of select factsheets are also available by request. Click on the order form to view available factsheets and brochures.

Factsheets and brochures are free for orders totaling 100 or less. For orders over 100, there is a charge of $20 for shipping and handling (schools and state agencies exempt).

Payment is accepted as check or money order to the Treasurer of Virginia with the Natural Area Preservation Fund included in the memo line. Note that there is a limit of 500 total factsheets and brochures per order. Please see order form for limits on the specific number of factsheets and brochures that can be requested.

Natural Area Protection and Stewardship

Webpages and PDFs describe various conservation, stewardship and protection tools employed by the Dept. of Conservation and Recreation's Natural Heritage Program.

Natural Area Protection

  • Natural Area Dedication
  • Natural Area Management Agreements
  • Natural Area Registry

Natural Area Stewardship

  • Ecological Management
  • Fire and Natural Areas
  • Virginia's Natural Area Preserve Public Access Guide

Natural Heritage Resources

Webpages and PDFs provide a closer look at some of the exemplary rare habitats in the Commonwealth, and life history, habitats, and conservation actions for rare plant and animal species and natural communities, and geologic features (including karst).
  • Natural Heritage Program Brochure
  • Conserving Virginia's Endangered Species - Why?

Plant Species

  • Carolina Hemlock
  • Peter's Mountain mallow
  • Sensitive Joint-vetch
  • Smooth Coneflower
  • Spreading Pogonia
  • Swamp Pink
  • Virginia Sneezeweed

Animal Species

  • Migratory Songbird Habitat
  • Northeastern Beach Tiger Beetle
  • Rare Beach Nesting Birds
  • Rare Marsh Nesting Birds
  • Rare Odonates

Natural Communities

  • Baldcypress - Water Tupelo Swamps
  • Barrier Beaches
  • Groundwater Seepage Wetlands
  • Pocosins
  • Sea-level Fens
  • Seasonal Ponds
  • Tidal Freshwater Marshes
  • Turkey Oak Sandhills

Karst Resources


Read more about the Virginia Natural Heritage Karst Program.
  • Lee County Cave Isopod
  • Madison Cave isopod
  • Rye Cove isopod

Native Plants for Conservation, Restoration and Landscaping Brochures

PDFs are available for specific geographic regions and select habitats of the Commonwealth:

  • Coastal Region
  • Mountain Region
  • Piedmont Region
  • Grasslands
  • Riparian Buffer Zones
  • Access these Native Plant Brochures via digital download by QR code. Point your device camera at the QR code and download immediately to your device.

Invasive Alien Plant Species Factsheets

PDFs focus on identification, threats and control of the most troublesome of VA's non-native invasive plant species.

General Information

  • Invasive Alien Plant List
  • Managing Invasive Plant Species in Natural Areas, parks, and Small Woodlands

Individual Species Information

  • Alligatorweed - Alternanthera philoxeroides
  • Aneilima - Murdannia keisak
  • Asiatic sand-sedge - Carex kobomugi
  • Autumn Olive & Russian Olive - Elaeagnus umbellata, E. angustifolia
  • Bush honeysuckles - Lonicera spp.
  • Canada-thistle - Cirsium arvense
  • Chinese lespedeza - Lespedeza cuneata
  • Chinese privet - Ligustrum sinense
  • Common reed - Phragmites australis
    • Marsh Invader! Phragmites australis control
  • Crown-vetch - Coronilla varia
  • Eurasian water-milfoil - Myriophyllum spicatum
  • Garlic mustard - Alliaria petiolata
  • Hydrilla - Hydrilla verticillata
  • Japanese honeysuckle - Lonicera japonica
  • Japanese knotweed - Polygonum cuspidatum
  • Japanese stiltgrass - Microstegium viminium
  • Johnson-grass - Sorghum halpense
  • Kudzu-vine - Pueraria lobata
  • Mile-a-minute - Polygonum perfoliatum
  • Multiflora rose - Rosa multiflora
  • Oriental bittersweet - Celastrus orbiculatus
  • Parrots feather - Myriophyllum aquaticum
  • Porcelain-berry - Ampelopsis brevipendunculata
  • Purple loosestrife - Lythrum salicaria
  • Spotted knapweed - Centaurea maculosa
  • Tree of heaven - Ailanthus altissima
  • Two-horned trapa - Trapa bispinsosa var. iinumai
  • Wavyleaf Grass - Oplismenus hirtellus ssp. undulatifolius
  • Winged burning bush - Euonymus alatus
Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation
Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation
600 East Main Street, 24th floor | Richmond, VA 23219-2094 | 804-786-6124
Please send website comments to web@dcr.virginia.gov
Address general inquiries to pcmo@dcr.virginia.gov
Copyright © 2025, All Rights Reserved
Last Modified: Wednesday, 28 May 2025, 02:39:20 PM
eVA Transparency Reports View the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation's expenditures.
Contact Us | Media Center | Privacy Policy | ADA Notice | FOIA | Jobs | Code of Ethics (PDF)
DCR Organizational Chart (PDF) | Strategic Plan (PDF) | Executive Progress Report (PDF) | Public Safety & Law Enforcement