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-not
Myosotis verna
Wildflower or fern. Native
Starry Campion
Silene stellata
Wildflower or fern. Native
Tall Bellflower
Campanulastrum americanum
Wildflower or fern. Native
Allegheny Mountain Golden-banner
Thermopsis mollis
Wildflower or fern. Native
Beaked Hawkweed
Hieracium gronovii
Wildflower or fern. Native
Heller's Rabbit-tobacco
Pseudognaphalium helleri
Wildflower or fern. Native
Lanceleaf Bluet
Houstonia lanceolata
Wildflower or fern. Native
Maryland Hawkweed
Hieracium marianum
Wildflower or fern. Native
Narrowleaf Bluet
Houstonia tenuifolia
Wildflower or fern. Native
Rattlesnake Hawkweed
Hieracium venosum
Wildflower or fern. Native
Summer Bluet
Houstonia purpurea
Wildflower or fern. Native
Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
Grass or sedge. Native
Purple Lovegrass
Eragrostis spectabilis
Grass or sedge. Native
Silky Oatgrass
Danthonia sericea
Grass or sedge. Native
Forked Bluecurls
Trichostema dichotomum
Wildflower or fern. Native
Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
Wildflower or fern. Native
Sidebeak Pencil-flower
Stylosanthes biflora
Wildflower or fern. Native
Eastern Bracken
Pteridium latiusculum
Wildflower or fern. Native
Yaupon Black-senna
Seymeria cassioides
Wildflower or fern. Native
Hairy Angelica
Angelica venenosa
Wildflower or fern. Native
Mullein Foxglove
Dasistoma macrophyllum
Wildflower or fern. Native
Plantain-leaf Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
Wildflower or fern. Native
Whorled Horsebalm
Collinsonia verticillata
Wildflower or fern. Native
Hair-awn Muhly
Muhlenbergia capillaris
Grass or sedge. Native
Nimblewill
Muhlenbergia schreberi
Grass or sedge. Native
Chapmans Meadow Parsnip
Thaspium chapmanii
Wildflower or fern. Native
Appalachian Bunchflower
Melanthium parviflorum
Wildflower or fern. Native
False Boneset
Brickellia eupatorioides
Shrub. Native
Perfoliate Bellwort
Uvularia perfoliata
Wildflower or fern. Native
Slender Bunchflower
Melanthium hybridum
Wildflower or fern. Native
Southern Dawnflower
Stylisma humistrata
Vine. Native
Yellow Pimpernel
Taenidia integerrima
Wildflower or fern. Native
Clasping Venus's-looking-glass
Triodanis perfoliata
Wildflower or fern. Native
Oblong-fruit Pinweed
Lechea racemulosa
Wildflower or fern. Native
Thyme-leaf Pinweed
Lechea minor
Wildflower or fern. Native
Downy Agrimony
Agrimonia pubescens
Wildflower or fern. Native
Smallfruit Agrimony
Agrimonia microcarpa
Wildflower or fern. Native
Spanish-moss
Tillandsia usneoides
Vine. Native
Indian-pipe
Monotropa uniflora
Wildflower or fern. Native
Queen's-delight
Stillingia sylvatica
Wildflower or fern. Native
Supplejack
Berchemia scandens
Vine. Native
Virginia Snakeroot
Endodeca serpentaria
Wildflower or fern. Native
Yellow Star-grass
Hypoxis hirsuta
Wildflower or fern. Native
American Ipecac
Gillenia stipulata
Shrub. Native
Galax
Galax urceolata
Shrub. Native
Little Brown Jug
Hexastylis arifolia
Wildflower or fern. Native
Green-violet
Cubelium concolor
Wildflower or fern. Native
Shortleaf Skeleton-grass
Gymnopogon brevifolius
Grass or sedge. Native

Wildlife

Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.

Birds 107

White-crowned Sparrow
Zonotrichia leucophrys
Winter
White-eyed Vireo
Vireo griseus
Year-round
White-throated Sparrow
Zonotrichia albicollis
Winter
White-winged Dove
Zenaida asiatica
Winter
Wild Turkey
Meleagris gallopavo
Year-round
Wood Thrush
Hylocichla mustelina
Summer
Worm-eating Warbler
Helmitheros vermivorum
Summer
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Sphyrapicus varius
Year-round
Yellow-breasted Chat
Icteria virens
Summer
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Dendroica coronata
Winter
Yellow-throated Warbler
Dendroica dominica
Winter

Near water in this habitat 13

These use it only close to water, such as stream banks for nesting.

Acadian Flycatcher
Empidonax virescens
Summer, only within 500 m of water
Belted Kingfisher
Megaceryle alcyon
Year-round, only within 60 m of water, for banks and other nest sites
Broad-winged Hawk
Buteo platypterus
Year-round, only within 250 m of water
Cliff Swallow
Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
Summer, only within 2,000 m of water
Double-crested Cormorant
Phalacrocorax auritus
Year-round, only within 250 m of water
Hooded Merganser
Lophodytes cucullatus
Summer, only within 60 m of water
Osprey
Pandion haliaetus
Year-round, only within 1,000 m of water, for banks and other nest sites
Prothonotary Warbler
Protonotaria citrea
Summer, only within 120 m of water, for banks and other nest sites
Spotted Sandpiper
Actitis macularius
Summer, only within 250 m of water
Swainson's Warbler
Limnothlypis swainsonii
Summer, only within 250 m of water
Tree Swallow
Tachycineta bicolor
Summer, only within 250 m of water
Veery
Catharus fuscescens
Summer, only within 250 m of water
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Coccyzus americanus
Summer, only within 120 m of water

Sources

Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.