Habitat in Alabama
Rich cove forests
Sheltered, moist mountain hollows and lower slopes with deep, fertile soil. Schafale
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Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Alabama. Not a planting list.
- Black MapleAcer nigrum
- White SnakerootAgeratina altissima
- Wild GeraniumGeranium maculatum
- Canada VioletViola canadensis
- Halberd-leaf Yellow VioletViola hastata
- Long-spurred VioletViola rostrata
- Slippery ElmUlmus rubra
- White AshFraxinus americana
- Yellow BuckeyeAesculus flava
- Eastern HemlockTsuga canadensis
- American Basswood; American LindenTilia americana var. heterophylla
- Red RampsAllium tricoccum
- Pale JewelweedImpatiens pallida
- Star ChickweedStellaria puber
- Spotted JewelweedImpatiens capensis
- Plantainleaf SedgeCarex plantaginea
- Tennessee StarwortStellaria corei
- Eastern Woodland SedgeCarex blanda
- Mountain SilverbellHalesia tetraptera
- Purple SedgeCarex purpurifera
- Tarheel SedgeCarex austrocaroliniana
- White Bear SedgeCarex albursina
- Fringed LoosestrifeSteironema ciliatum
- Woodland StonecropSedum ternatum
- Fernleaf PhaceliaPhacelia bipinnatifida
- Great Indian-plantainArnoglossum reniforme
- Turk's-cap LilyLilium superbum
- Canada LilyLilium canadense
- Carolina Spring-beautyClaytonia caroliniana
- Pink TurtleheadChelone lyonii
- Canada HorsebalmCollinsonia canadensis
- Appalachian Black CohoshActaea rubifolia
- Black CohoshActaea racemosa
- Canada Wood-nettleLaportea canadensis
- Large-flowered TrilliumTrillium grandiflorum
- White BaneberryActaea pachypoda
- American ColumboFrasera caroliniensis
- Barksdale TrilliumTrillium sulcatum
- Bluntleaf WaterleafHydrophyllum canadense
- Drooping TrilliumTrillium flexipes
- Hairy Sweet-cicelyOsmorhiza claytonii
- Largeleaf WaterleafHydrophyllum macrophyllum
- Little Sweet TrilliumTrillium cuneatum
- Vasey's TrilliumTrillium vaseyi
- Yellow TrilliumTrillium luteum
- Catesby's TrilliumTrillium catesbyi
- Large-flowered BellwortUvularia grandiflora
- PipevineIsotrema macrophyllum
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
No wildlife recorded in this habitat in Alabama yet.
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)
- Cove hardwood forest, Hynes, Robert 'Bob' habitat picture
Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.