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
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Painted BuntingPasserina ciris
- Palm WarblerDendroica palmarum
- Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
- Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podiceps
- Pine SiskinCarduelis pinus
- Piping PloverCharadrius melodus
- Prairie WarblerDendroica discolor
- Purple GallinulePorphyrio martinica
- Purple MartinProgne subis
- Red KnotCalidris canutus
- Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
- Red-shouldered HawkButeo lineatus
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
- Reddish EgretEgretta rufescens
- RedheadAythya americana
- Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
- Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
- Rock PigeonColumba livia
- Royal TernThalasseus maximus
- Ruddy DuckOxyura jamaicensis
- Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpres
- Rusty BlackbirdEuphagus carolinus
- SanderlingCalidris alba
- Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensis
- Savannah SparrowPasserculus sandwichensis
- Seaside SparrowAmmodramus maritimus
- Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatus
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- Short-billed DowitcherLimnodromus griseus
- Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus
- Snow GooseChen caerulescens
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
- Snowy PloverCharadrius nivosus
- Song SparrowMelospiza melodia
- SoraPorzana carolina
- Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
- Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopus
- Surf ScoterMelanitta perspicillata
- Swallow-tailed KiteElanoides forficatus
- Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- Tricolored HeronEgretta tricolor
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- Virginia RailRallus limicola
- Western SandpiperCalidris mauri
- Western Snowy PloverCharadrius nivosus nivosus
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.