Habitat in Alabama
Pine savannas
Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil. Schafale
- Plants
- 346
- Birds
- 88
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Alabama. Not a planting list.
- Wright's BeaksedgeRhynchospora wrightiana
- Eastern Sampson's-snakerootOrbexilum pedunculatum var. psoralioides
- Eleocharis bicolorEleocharis bicolor
- Roundleaf BluetHoustonia procumbens
- Britton's SpikerushEleocharis brittonii
- Cone-cup SpikerushEleocharis tuberculosa
- Three-angle SpikerushEleocharis tricostata
- Twisted SpikerushEleocharis tortilis
- Wolf's SpikerushEleocharis wolfii
- Coastal LovegrassEragrostis refracta
- Elliott's LovegrassEragrostis elliottii
- Longspike FluffgrassTridens strictus
- Pine Barren FluffgrassTridens ambiguus
- Quillwort Yellow Eyed GrassXyris isoetifolia
- Sidebeak Pencil-flowerStylosanthes biflora
- Wireleaf DropseedSporobolus teretifolius
- Xyris louisianicaXyris louisianica
- Elliott's GentianGentiana catesbyi
- Hooker's MilkwortPolygala hookeri
- Litteleaf MilkwortPolygala brevifolia
- Low Pinebarren MilkwortPolygala ramosa
- Maryland MilkwortPolygala mariana
- Nuttall's MilkwortPolygala nuttallii
- Orange MilkwortPolygala lutea
- Pink MilkwortPolygala incarnata
- Polygala chapmaniiPolygala chapmanii
- Polygala crenataPolygala crenata
- Acid-swamp Yellow-eyed-grassXyris serotina
- Baldwin's Yellow-eyed-grassXyris baldwiniana
- Bog Yellow-eyed-grassXyris difformis
- Carolina Yellow-eyed-grassXyris caroliniana
- Coastal-plain Yellow-eyed-grassXyris ambigua
- Curtiss's Yellow-eyed-grassXyris curtissii
- Florida Yellow-eyed-grassXyris floridana
- Harper's Yellow-eyed-grassXyris scabrifolia
- Pineland Yellow-eyed-grassXyris stricta
- Tall Yellow-eyed-grassXyris platylepis
- Xyris elliottiiXyris elliottii
- Yaupon Black-sennaSeymeria cassioides
- Crested Fringed OrchidPlatanthera cristata
- Snowy OrchidPlatanthera nivea
- Yellow Fringeless OrchidPlatanthera integra
- Yellow-fringed OrchidPlatanthera ciliaris
- Slenderleaf False-DragonheadPhysostegia leptophylla
- Virginia BunchflowerMelanthium virginicum
- Cut-over MuhlyMuhlenbergia expansa
- Hair-awn MuhlyMuhlenbergia capillaris
- Tropical PuffNeptunia pubescens
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 88
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanus
- Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
- Blue-winged TealAnas discors
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Carolina ChickadeePoecile carolinensis
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
- DunlinCalidris alpina
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
- Eurasian Collared-doveStreptopelia decaocto
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Field SparrowSpizella pusilla
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- Gray KingbirdTyrannus dominicensis
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Hairy WoodpeckerPicoides villosus
- Henslow's SparrowAmmodramus henslowii
- King RailRallus elegans
- Lapland LongspurCalcarius lapponicus
- Lark SparrowChondestes grammacus
- Le Conte's SparrowAmmodramus leconteii
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
- Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolnii
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Little GullHydrocoloeus minutus
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Marsh WrenCistothorus palustris
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.