Habitat in Alabama
Coastal dunes and beaches
Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them. Schafale
- Plants
- 134
- Birds
- 155
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Alabama. Not a planting list.
- Juniper-leafPolypremum procumbens
- Fimbristylis carolinianaFimbristylis caroliniana
- Fimbristylis castaneaFimbristylis castanea
- Sea OatsUniola paniculata
- Standing-cypressIpomopsis rubra
- Perennial SandgrassTriplasis americana
- Purple SandgrassTriplasis purpurea
- Carolina GrasswortLilaeopsis carolinensis
- Ware's HairsedgeBulbostylis warei
- White ScrewstemBartonia verna
- Yellow ScrewstemBartonia virginica
- Gratiola hispidaSophronanthe hispida
- Large Leaf JointweedPolygonella macrophylla
- American Barnyard GrassEchinochloa muricata var. microstachya
- American Rat's Tail GrassSporobolus jacquemontii
- AromaDichrostachys cinerea
- Beach Creeping OxeyePascalia glauca
- Blue PorterweedStachytarpheta jamaicensis
- Chinese ChivesAllium tuberosum
- Common FigFicus carica
- Creeping WoodsorrelOxalis corniculata
- Crowfoot GrassDactyloctenium aegyptium
- Dysphania anthelminticaDysphania anthelmintica
- Gray SheOakCasuarina glauca
- Kallstroemia maximaKallstroemia maxima
- Little-bellIpomoea triloba
- Mangrove FlatsedgeCyperus ligularis
- Marine-ivyCissus trifoliata
- Plantago hookerianaPlantago hookeriana
- Puncture-vineTribulus terrestris
- Red SpiderlingBoerhavia coccinea
- Rough American Barnyard GrassEchinochloa muricata var. muricata
- Slender AmaranthAmaranthus viridis
- St. Augustine GrassStenotaphrum secundatum
- Texas Prickly-pearOpuntia lindheimeri
- Trailing IndigoIndigofera spicata
- Water MedickMedicago littoralis
- Beach VitexVitex rotundifolia
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 155
- Eurasian WigeonAnas penelope
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Field SparrowSpizella pusilla
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- Forster's TernSterna forsteri
- GadwallAnas strepera
- Glaucous GullLarus hyperboreus
- Gray KingbirdTyrannus dominicensis
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Gull-billed TernGelochelidon nilotica
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- Horned GrebePodiceps auritus
- Horned LarkEremophila alpestris
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- KilldeerCharadrius vociferus
- King RailRallus elegans
- Lapland LongspurCalcarius lapponicus
- Lark SparrowChondestes grammacus
- Laughing GullLeucophaeus atricilla
- Le Conte's SparrowAmmodramus leconteii
- Least BitternIxobrychus exilis
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Least TernSternula antillarum
- Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
- Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Little GullHydrocoloeus minutus
- Loggerhead ShrikeLanius ludovicianus
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Marbled GodwitLimosa fedoa
- Marsh WrenCistothorus palustris
- MerlinFalco columbarius
- Mottled DuckAnas fulvigula
- Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
- Nelson's Sharp-tailed SparrowAmmodramus nelsoni
- Northern BobwhiteColinus virginianus
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- Northern WaterthrushSeiurus noveboracensis
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)
Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.