Habitat in Alabama
Dry forests and woodlands
Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine. Schafale
- Plants
- 224
- Birds
- 120
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Alabama. Not a planting list.
- Cat GreenbrierSmilax glauca
- Coral HoneysuckleLonicera sempervirens
- Devil's-walkingstickAralia spinosa
- Fraser MagnoliaMagnolia fraseri
- Tall LespedezaLespedeza stuevei
- Cream Tick-trefoilDesmodium ochroleucum
- Green AntelopehornAsclepias viridis
- Naked Tick-trefoilHylodesmum nudiflorum
- Pine-barren Tick-trefoilDesmodium strictum
- Prostrate Tick-trefoilDesmodium rotundifolium
- Sand Tick-trefoilDesmodium lineatum
- Sessileleaf Tick-trefoilDesmodium sessilifolium
- Stiff Tick-trefoilDesmodium obtusum
- American Basswood; American LindenTilia americana var. heterophylla
- Biltmore's Carrion-flowerSmilax biltmoreana
- Drummond's St. John's-wortHypericum drummondii
- Lloyd's St. John's-wortHypericum lloydii
- CoralberrySymphoricarpos orbiculatus
- Mobile OnionAllium mobilense
- Clasping MilkweedAsclepias amplexicaulis
- Mercury SpurgeEuphorbia mercurialina
- Southeastern Flowering SpurgeEuphorbia pubentissima
- American Hop-hornbeamOstrya virginiana
- Littleleaf Sensitive-briarMimosa microphylla
- Painted SedgeCarex picta
- Timid SedgeCarex timida
- Maryland SennaSenna marilandica
- Shaggy Blazing Star; Shaggy BlazingstarLiatris elegantula
- Ernests SpiderwortTradescantia ernestiana
- Longstalk SedgeCarex pedunculata
- Violet WoodsorrelOxalis violacea
- Appalachian SedgeCarex appalachica
- Black-edge SedgeCarex nigromarginata
- Chattahoochee False FoxgloveAgalinis plukenetii
- Fibrous-root SedgeCarex communis
- Fuzzy Wuzzy SedgeCarex hirsutella
- Hitchcock's SedgeCarex hitchcockiana
- Leavenworth's SedgeCarex leavenworthii
- Midland SedgeCarex mesochorea
- Oval-leaf SedgeCarex cephalophora
- Reflexed SedgeCarex retroflexa
- Rezniceks SedgeCarex reznicekii
- Shortbeak SedgeCarex brevior
- Slender Woodland SedgeCarex digitalis var. digitalis
- Slender Woodland SedgeCarex digitalis var. macropoda
- Southern Whitetinge SedgeCarex albicans var. australis
- Whitetinge SedgeCarex albicans var. albicans
- Lyreleaf SageSalvia lyrata
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 107
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- American Tree SparrowSpizella arborea
- American WoodcockScolopax minor
- Bachman's SparrowAimophila aestivalis
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
- Barred OwlStrix varia
- Black VultureCoragyps atratus
- Black-and-White WarblerMniotilta varia
- Black-billed CuckooCoccyzus erythropthalmus
- Black-throated Blue WarblerDendroica caerulescens
- Black-throated Green WarblerDendroica virens
- Blackburnian WarblerDendroica fusca
- Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
- Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Blue-headed VireoVireo solitarius
- Blue-winged WarblerVermivora pinus
- Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
- Brown CreeperCerthia americana
- Brown ThrasherToxostoma rufum
- Brown-headed CowbirdMolothrus ater
- Brown-headed NuthatchSitta pusilla
- Carolina ChickadeePoecile carolinensis
- Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Cerulean WarblerDendroica cerulea
- Chestnut-sided WarblerDendroica pensylvanica
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Chuck-will's-widowCaprimulgus carolinensis
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common Ground-doveColumbina passerina
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
- Downy WoodpeckerPicoides pubescens
- Eastern BluebirdSialia sialis
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- Eastern Wood-peweeContopus virens
Near water in this habitat 13
These use it only close to water, such as stream banks for nesting.
- Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterus
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Prothonotary WarblerProtonotaria citrea
- Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
- Swainson's WarblerLimnothlypis swainsonii
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- VeeryCatharus fuscescens
- 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)
Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.