Habitat in Alabama
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots. Schafale
- Plants
- 1485
- Birds
- 152
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Alabama. Not a planting list.
- Whitestar Morning-gloryIpomoea leucantha
- Woolly RagwortPackera tomentosa
- Wrinkle Leaf Goldenrod; Rough Leaf GoldenrodSolidago rugosa var. rugosa
- Common HorseweedErigeron canadensis
- Devil's BeggarticksBidens frondosa
- Long Flower BeeblossomOenothera filiformis
- Oenothera curtissiiOenothera curtissii
- Stemless Evening PrimroseOenothera triloba
- Spanish-needlesBidens bipinnata
- Tall ThistleCirsium altissimum
- Annual FleabaneErigeron annuus
- Awnless BeggarticksBidens polylepis
- Canada LettuceLactuca canadensis
- Nodding BeggarticksBidens cernua
- Nuttall's ThistleCirsium nuttallii
- Southern HorseweedErigeron pusillus
- Staghorn SumacRhus typhina
- Tall BeggarticksBidens vulgata
- Yellow Thistle; Bull Thistle; Horrid ThistleCirsium horridulum var. horridulum
- Glade VioletViola egglestonii
- Gulf VervainVerbena xutha
- Late-flowering ThoroughwortEupatorium serotinum
- Silver MapleAcer saccharinum
- Blue MistflowerConoclinium coelestinum
- Tall ThoroughwortEupatorium altissimum
- Wild Potato-vineIpomoea pandurata
- Albany HawthornCrataegus furtiva
- ButterweedPackera glabella
- Eastern HawthornCrataegus macrosperma
- One-flowered HawthornCrataegus uniflora
- Rough HawthornCrataegus senta
- Small's RagwortPackera anonyma
- Sunny HawthornCrataegus aprica
- Washington HawthornCrataegus phaenopyrum
- White Morning-gloryIpomoea lacunosa
- Biennial BeeblossomOenothera gaura
- Common Evening-primroseOenothera biennis
- Cutleaf Evening-primroseOenothera laciniata
- Dog-fennelEupatorium capillifolium
- Groundsel-treeBaccharis halimifolia
- Hollow Joe-pye-weedEutrochium fistulosum
- Hyssopleaf ThoroughwortEupatorium hyssopifolium
- Large-flower Evening-primroseOenothera grandiflora
- Midwestern Evening-primroseOenothera pilosella
- Nodding Evening PrimroseOenothera nutans
- Roundleaf ThoroughwortEupatorium rotundifolium
- Seabeach Evening-primroseOenothera humifusa
- Southern BeeblossomOenothera simulans
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 117
- Song SparrowMelospiza melodia
- Summer TanagerPiranga rubra
- Thayer's GullLarus thayeri
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- Tufted TitmouseBaeolophus bicolor
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- Upland SandpiperBartramia longicauda
- Vesper SparrowPooecetes gramineus
- Western MeadowlarkSturnella neglecta
- White-crowned SparrowZonotrichia leucophrys
- White-eyed VireoVireo griseus
- White-throated SparrowZonotrichia albicollis
- White-winged DoveZenaida asiatica
- Wild TurkeyMeleagris gallopavo
- Wilson's WarblerWilsonia pusilla
- Yellow RailCoturnicops noveboracensis
- Yellow-bellied SapsuckerSphyrapicus varius
- Yellow-breasted ChatIcteria virens
- Yellow-rumped WarblerDendroica coronata
- Yellow-throated VireoVireo flavifrons
- Yellow-throated WarblerDendroica dominica
Near water in this habitat 35
These use it only close to water, such as stream banks for nesting.
- American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American WigeonAnas americana
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Black-bellied PloverPluvialis squatarola
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterus
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- DunlinCalidris alpina
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Least TernSternula antillarum
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Mottled DuckAnas fulvigula
- Northern ParulaParula americana
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- Piping PloverCharadrius melodus
- Red-shouldered HawkButeo lineatus
- Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
- Rusty BlackbirdEuphagus carolinus
- Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatus
- SoraPorzana carolina
- Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
- Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopus
- Swallow-tailed KiteElanoides forficatus
- White-faced IbisPlegadis chihi
- Wilson's SnipeGallinago delicata
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
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.