Habitat in Alabama
Oak savannas and openings
Open-grown oaks over grass and wildflowers, kept open by fire or thin soil; not the treeless prairies or the Coastal Plain's pine savannas. Weakley
- Plants
- 15
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Alabama. Not a planting list.
- Thinleaf SunflowerHelianthus decapetalus
- Porters GoldenrodSolidago porteri
- Scabrous Roundleaf ThoroughwortEupatorium rotundifolium var. scabridum
- Southern GoldenrodSolidago austrina
- Eastern Prairie Blue Wild IndigoBaptisia aberrans
- Littlehip HawthornCrataegus spathulata
- Hyssopleaf ThoroughwortEupatorium hyssopifolium
- Ozark CrownbeardVerbesina helianthoides
- Globular Prairie Cone FlowerRatibida pinnata
- Early ButtercupRanunculus fascicularis
- Longspike FluffgrassTridens strictus
- Hairy AngelicaAngelica venenosa
- Wild HyacinthCamassia scilloides
- Lesser Blue-eyed GrassSisyrinchium minus
- Eastern YampahPerideridia americana
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
No wildlife recorded in this habitat in Alabama yet.
Sources
- Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition, habitat wording 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)
- Catoosa Savanna, 11 July 2012, Mason Brock (Masebrock) habitat picture
Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.