Habitat in Alabama
Granite and other acidic rock outcrops
Bare or thin-soil rock on granite, gneiss, sandstone, quartzite and similar acidic rock, including granite flatrocks and domes. Schafale
- Plants
- 71
- Birds
- 73
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Alabama. Not a planting list.
- Mountain SpleenwortAsplenium montanum
- Habenaria quinquesetaHabenaria quinqueseta
- Menges FameflowerPhemeranthus mengesii
- Texas PipewortEriocaulon texense
- Piedmont QuillwortIsoetes piedmontana
- Winter GrapefernSceptridium lunarioides
- Appalachian SandwortMononeuria glabra
- Granite Loving QuillwortIsoetes graniticola
- One-flower SandwortMononeuria uniflora
- Petite-plantLepuropetalon spathulatum
- Appalachian Shoestring FernVittaria appalachiana
- Dwarf Filmy-fernDidymoglossum petersii
- Green-fly OrchidEpidendrum conopseum
- Yellow SunnybellSchoenolirion croceum
- American PillwortPilularia americana
- Amphianthus pusillusGratiola amphiantha
- Hairy LipfernMyriopteris lanosa
- Blackberry-lilyIris domestica
- Diamond's StonecropSedum diffusum
- Hardy BegoniaBegonia grandis
- Rose-mossPortulaca grandiflora
- Spring DrabaDraba verna
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 64
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
- Rock PigeonColumba livia
- Ruby-crowned KingletRegulus calendula
- Ruby-throated HummingbirdArchilochus colubris
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus
- Summer TanagerPiranga rubra
- Tufted TitmouseBaeolophus bicolor
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- White-breasted NuthatchSitta carolinensis
- White-crowned SparrowZonotrichia leucophrys
- Wild TurkeyMeleagris gallopavo
- Yellow-bellied SapsuckerSphyrapicus varius
- Yellow-breasted ChatIcteria virens
- Yellow-rumped WarblerDendroica coronata
Near water in this habitat 9
These use it only close to water, such as stream banks for nesting.
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- Yellow-billed CuckooCoccyzus americanus
Sources
- Schafale, Guide to the Natural Communities of North Carolina, Fourth Approximation (NC Natural Heritage Program, 2012) habitat description
- Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition, habitat text phone app
- NC Parks species accounts
- USDA Forest Service Fire Effects Information System (reviewed notes)
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001)
- NatureServe Explorer ecological systems (CC BY 4.0)
- Solution pits, Davidson-Arabia Mountain Nature Preserve, DeKalb County, Alan M. Cressler / U.S. Geological Survey habitat picture
Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.