Habitat in Alabama
Prairies and grasslands
Open, grass-dominated places kept open by fire, grazing or thin soil, from tallgrass prairie to Piedmont prairies. Schafale
- Plants
- 271
- Birds
- 78
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Alabama. Not a planting list.
- White Prairie CloverDalea candida
- Common Browneyed Susan; Common Three Lobed ConeflowerRudbeckia triloba var. triloba
- Eastern Prickly PearOpuntia cespitosa
- Gulf CrotonCroton punctatus
- Soft Golden-asterBradburia pilosa
- Woolly CrotonCroton capitatus
- Clammy Ground-cherryPhysalis heterophylla
- Barren St. JohnswortHypericum sphaerocarpum
- Cat GreenbrierSmilax glauca
- Common GreenbrierSmilax rotundifolia
- Early St. John's-wortHypericum nudiflorum
- Five Lobe St. JohnswortHypericum lobocarpum
- Shrubby St. John's-wortHypericum prolificum
- Whorled MilkweedAsclepias verticillata
- Blue CrowngrassPaspalum caespitosum
- Common MilkweedAsclepias syriaca
- Paspalum plicatulumPaspalum plicatulum
- Roundhead LespedezaLespedeza capitata
- Barrens MilkweedAsclepias hirtella
- Green AntelopehornAsclepias viridis
- Pale Wild Bergamot; Pale Wild Bee BalmMonarda fistulosa var. mollis
- Purple MilkweedAsclepias purpurascens
- Wright's PlantainPlantago wrightiana
- Lanceleaf RagweedAmbrosia bidentata
- Lanceleaf TickseedCoreopsis lanceolata
- Perennial RagweedAmbrosia psilostachya
- Mobile OnionAllium mobilense
- American Wild CarrotDaucus pusillus
- Clasping MilkweedAsclepias amplexicaulis
- Curtis's CrowngrassPaspalum praecox var. curtisianum
- Florida PaspalumPaspalum floridanum
- Warty SpurgeEuphorbia spathulata
- Crawes SedgeCarex crawei
- Little Tooth SedgeCarex microdonta
- Smallfruit SeedboxLudwigia microcarpa
- Barrelhead Blazing StarLiatris cylindracea
- Rydbergs Blazing StarLiatris hirsuta
- Southern Winged LoosestrifeLythrum lanceolatum
- Woodland BluegrassPoa sylvestris
- Agalinis filicaulisAgalinis filicaulis
- Blue SedgeCarex glaucodea
- Bush's SedgeCarex bushii
- Earleaf False FoxgloveAgalinis auriculata
- Greater Straw SedgeCarex normalis
- Green GerardiaAgalinis viridis
- Heavy SedgeCarex gravida
- Mead's SedgeCarex meadii
- Prairie False FoxgloveAgalinis heterophylla
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 66
- Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
- Prairie WarblerDendroica discolor
- Purple FinchCarpodacus purpureus
- Purple MartinProgne subis
- Red-headed WoodpeckerMelanerpes erythrocephalus
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
- Savannah SparrowPasserculus sandwichensis
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- Tufted TitmouseBaeolophus bicolor
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- Vesper SparrowPooecetes gramineus
- Western MeadowlarkSturnella neglecta
- White-crowned SparrowZonotrichia leucophrys
- Wild TurkeyMeleagris gallopavo
- Yellow-breasted ChatIcteria virens
Near water in this habitat 12
These use it only close to water, such as stream banks for nesting.
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
- Red-shouldered HawkButeo lineatus
- SoraPorzana carolina
- Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
- Swallow-tailed KiteElanoides forficatus
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)
- Grand Prairie, Coosa Valley Prairies, Floyd County, Alan M. Cressler / U.S. Geological Survey habitat picture
Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.