Habitat in Alabama
Glades, barrens and outcrops on mafic or serpentine rock
Open, thin-soil openings, outcrops and cliffs on dark, magnesium- or iron-rich rock such as serpentine, diabase or gabbro. Schafale
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Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Alabama. Not a planting list.
- Hairy Wild-petuniaRuellia humilis
- River OatsChasmanthium latifolium
- Stone Mountain-mintPycnanthemum curvipes
- Waxyleaf Meadow-rueThalictrum amphibolum
- Cymose BeaksedgeRhynchospora recognita
- Lanceleaf ScurfpeaOrbexilum onobrychis
- Small-leaved Meadow-rueThalictrum macrostylum
- Hairy Mock-orangePhiladelphus hirsutus
- Lanceleaf BluetHoustonia lanceolata
- Composite DropseedSporobolus compositus var. compositus
- Ozark DropseedSporobolus vaginiflorus var. ozarkanus
- Pineywoods DropseedSporobolus junceus
- Curtiss's MilkwortPolygala curtissii
- Eastern Shooting-starPrimula meadia
- Smooth RockcressBorodinia laevigata
- Canada RockcressBorodinia canadensis
- Hairy AlumrootHeuchera villosa
- Great Plains Ladies TressesSpiranthes magnicamporum
- Yellow FumewortCorydalis flavula
- American BlueheartsBuchnera americana
- Maidenhair SpleenwortAsplenium trichomanes
- Mountain SpleenwortAsplenium montanum
- Northern Maidenhair FernAdiantum pedatum
- White ColicrootAletris farinosa
- Nettleleaf NoseburnTragia urticifolia
- Purple-stem CliffbrakePellaea atropurpurea
- Three-flower MelicgrassMelica nitens
- Virginia NailwortParonychia virginica
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
No wildlife recorded in this habitat in Alabama yet.
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.