Habitat in Alabama
Sandhills
Dry, deep-sand ridges with longleaf pine and turkey oak, kept open by fire. Schafale
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Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Alabama. Not a planting list.
- Beaked HawkweedHieracium gronovii
- Eastern Sampson's-snakerootOrbexilum pedunculatum var. psoralioides
- Heller's Rabbit-tobaccoPseudognaphalium helleri
- Lupine ScurfpeaOrbexilum lupinellus
- Snowy Black AnthersMelanthera nivea
- Coastal Sand FrostweedCrocanthemum arenicola
- Plains LovegrassEragrostis intermedia
- Purple LovegrassEragrostis spectabilis
- Carolina FrostweedCrocanthemum carolinianum
- Forked BluecurlsTrichostema dichotomum
- Hairy Four-o'clockMirabilis albida
- Rosemary FrostweedCrocanthemum rosmarinifolium
- Carolina FluffgrassTridens carolinianus
- Chapman's RedtopTridens chapmanii
- Longspike FluffgrassTridens strictus
- Pineywoods DropseedSporobolus junceus
- Sidebeak Pencil-flowerStylosanthes biflora
- Southern BrackenPteridium pseudocaudatum
- Polygala leptostachysPolygala leptostachys
- Racemed MilkwortPolygala polygama
- Showy MilkwortAsemeia grandiflora
- Carolina Yellow-eyed-grassXyris caroliniana
- Chapman's Yellow-eyed-grassXyris chapmanii
- Fringed Yellow-eyed-grassXyris fimbriata
- Harper's Yellow-eyed-grassXyris scabrifolia
- Striped GentianGentiana villosa
- Twig-rushCladium mariscoides
- Yaupon Black-sennaSeymeria cassioides
- Hairy AngelicaAngelica venenosa
- BuckrootPediomelum canescens
- Ceratiola ericoidesCeratiola ericoides
- Hair-awn MuhlyMuhlenbergia capillaris
- Pitted StripeseedPiriqueta caroliniana
- Smoky BalmDicerandra fumella
- Tropical PuffNeptunia pubescens
- Dense-spike BlackrootPterocaulon pycnostachyum
- SweetshrubCalycanthus floridus
- Eustachys floridanaEustachys floridana
- False BonesetBrickellia eupatorioides
- Four-angle Rose-gentianSabatia quadrangula
- Little Floating-heartNymphoides cordata
- Narrowleaf Rose-pinkSabatia brachiata
- Southern DawnflowerStylisma humistrata
- Coastal Plain DawnflowerStylisma patens
- Eaton's Ladies'-tressesSpiranthes eatonii
- Hairy PinweedLechea mucronata
- Little Ladies'-tressesSpiranthes tuberosa
- Pineland PinweedLechea sessiliflora
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.