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
- Eurasian Collared-doveStreptopelia decaocto
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Evening GrosbeakCoccothraustes vespertinus
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- Fox SparrowPasserella iliaca
- Golden-crowned KingletRegulus satrapa
- Golden-winged WarblerVermivora chrysoptera
- Gray CatbirdDumetella carolinensis
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Hairy WoodpeckerPicoides villosus
- Hermit ThrushCatharus guttatus
- Hooded WarblerWilsonia citrina
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- Least FlycatcherEmpidonax minimus
- Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolnii
- Long-eared OwlAsio otus
- Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
- Northern BobwhiteColinus virginianus
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
- Northern Saw-whet OwlAegolius acadicus
- Orange-crowned WarblerVermivora celata
- Orchard OrioleIcterus spurius
- OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
- Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatus
- Pine SiskinCarduelis pinus
- Pine WarblerDendroica pinus
- Prairie WarblerDendroica discolor
- Purple FinchCarpodacus purpureus
- Red CrossbillLoxia curvirostra
- Red-bellied WoodpeckerMelanerpes carolinus
- Red-breasted NuthatchSitta canadensis
- Red-cockaded WoodpeckerPicoides borealis
- Red-headed WoodpeckerMelanerpes erythrocephalus
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
- Rose-breasted GrosbeakPheucticus ludovicianus
- Ruby-crowned KingletRegulus calendula
- Ruby-throated HummingbirdArchilochus colubris
- Ruffed GrouseBonasa umbellus
- Scarlet TanagerPiranga olivacea
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- Summer TanagerPiranga rubra
- Tufted TitmouseBaeolophus bicolor
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- White-breasted NuthatchSitta carolinensis
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.