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.
- Spring Forget-me-notMyosotis verna
- Starry CampionSilene stellata
- Tall BellflowerCampanulastrum americanum
- Allegheny Mountain Golden-bannerThermopsis mollis
- Beaked HawkweedHieracium gronovii
- Heller's Rabbit-tobaccoPseudognaphalium helleri
- Lanceleaf BluetHoustonia lanceolata
- Maryland HawkweedHieracium marianum
- Narrowleaf BluetHoustonia tenuifolia
- Rattlesnake HawkweedHieracium venosum
- Summer BluetHoustonia purpurea
- Poverty OatgrassDanthonia spicata
- Purple LovegrassEragrostis spectabilis
- Silky OatgrassDanthonia sericea
- Forked BluecurlsTrichostema dichotomum
- Christmas FernPolystichum acrostichoides
- Sidebeak Pencil-flowerStylosanthes biflora
- Eastern BrackenPteridium latiusculum
- Yaupon Black-sennaSeymeria cassioides
- Hairy AngelicaAngelica venenosa
- Mullein FoxgloveDasistoma macrophyllum
- Plantain-leaf PussytoesAntennaria plantaginifolia
- Whorled HorsebalmCollinsonia verticillata
- Hair-awn MuhlyMuhlenbergia capillaris
- NimblewillMuhlenbergia schreberi
- Chapmans Meadow ParsnipThaspium chapmanii
- Appalachian BunchflowerMelanthium parviflorum
- False BonesetBrickellia eupatorioides
- Perfoliate BellwortUvularia perfoliata
- Slender BunchflowerMelanthium hybridum
- Southern DawnflowerStylisma humistrata
- Yellow PimpernelTaenidia integerrima
- Clasping Venus's-looking-glassTriodanis perfoliata
- Oblong-fruit PinweedLechea racemulosa
- Thyme-leaf PinweedLechea minor
- Downy AgrimonyAgrimonia pubescens
- Smallfruit AgrimonyAgrimonia microcarpa
- Spanish-mossTillandsia usneoides
- Indian-pipeMonotropa uniflora
- Queen's-delightStillingia sylvatica
- SupplejackBerchemia scandens
- Virginia SnakerootEndodeca serpentaria
- Yellow Star-grassHypoxis hirsuta
- American IpecacGillenia stipulata
- GalaxGalax urceolata
- Little Brown JugHexastylis arifolia
- Green-violetCubelium concolor
- Shortleaf Skeleton-grassGymnopogon brevifolius
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.