Habitat in Alabama
Sandhills
Dry, deep-sand ridges with longleaf pine and turkey oak, kept open by fire. Schafale
- Plants
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Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Alabama. Not a planting list.
- Goat's-rueTephrosia virginiana
- Net Leaf Leather FlowerClematis reticulata
- Panicum amarum var. amarulumPanicum amarum var. amarulum
- Sorghastrum secundumSorghastrum secundum
- Spiked Hoary-peaTephrosia spicata
- Stiff AsterIonactis linariifolia
- White Leaf Leather FlowerClematis glaucophylla
- Kidney Leaf RosinweedSilphium compositum var. compositum
- Shaggy CrabgrassDigitaria villosa
- Slender CrabgrassDigitaria filiformis
- Dune SandspurCenchrus tribuloides
- Heller's WitchgrassDichanthelium oligosanthes var. oligosanthes
- Spindle-fruit WitchgrassDichanthelium fusiforme
- Dixie Whitetop AsterSericocarpus tortifolius
- Narrowleaf Whitetop AsterSericocarpus linifolius
- Phlox floridanaPhlox floridana
- Slender Scratch-daisyCroptilon divaricatum
- Hairy PhloxPhlox amoena
- Scutellaria glabriusculaScutellaria glabriuscula
- Southern Elephants Foot; Southern ElephantsfootElephantopus elatus
- Clustered Poppy-mallowCallirhoe triangulata
- Common SweetleafSymplocos tinctoria
- Georgia CalamintClinopodium georgianum
- Balduina angustifoliaBalduina angustifolia
- Combleaf Yellow False FoxgloveAureolaria pectinata
- Clinopodium coccineumClinopodium coccineum
- Coastal Plain PuccoonLithospermum caroliniense
- Virginia False GromwellLithospermum virginianum
- Bristly FlatsedgeCyperus hystricinus
- Carolina IndigoIndigofera caroliniana
- Globe FlatsedgeCyperus echinatus
- Gray's FlatsedgeCyperus grayi
- Plukenet's FlatsedgeCyperus plukenetii
- Sandhills Wild-petuniaRuellia ciliosa
- Southeastern FlatsedgeCyperus filiculmis
- Feather-bristle BeaksedgeRhynchospora oligantha
- Fewflower BeaksedgeRhynchospora rariflora
- Gray's BeaksedgeRhynchospora grayi
- Harvey's BeaksedgeRhynchospora harveyi
- Large BeaksedgeRhynchospora macra
- Sandy-field BeaksedgeRhynchospora megalocarpa
- Royal Snout BeanRhynchosia cytisoides
- Trailing ArbutusEpigaea repens
- Coral-beanErythrina herbacea
- Dollarleaf SnoutbeanRhynchosia reniformis
- Doubleform SnoutbeanRhynchosia difformis
- Erect SnoutbeanRhynchosia tomentosa
- Nuttallanthus floridanusLinaria floridana
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.