Habitat in Arkansas
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots. Schafale
- Plants
- 888
- Birds
- 151
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Arkansas. Not a planting list.
- Tall ThoroughwortEupatorium altissimum
- ButterweedPackera glabella
- Eastern HawthornCrataegus macrosperma
- One-flowered HawthornCrataegus uniflora
- Schuette's HawthornCrataegus schuettei
- Washington HawthornCrataegus phaenopyrum
- Common Evening-primroseOenothera biennis
- Wild Potato-vineIpomoea pandurata
- Cutleaf Evening-primroseOenothera laciniata
- Dog-fennelEupatorium capillifolium
- Hollow Joe-pye-weedEutrochium fistulosum
- Hyssopleaf ThoroughwortEupatorium hyssopifolium
- Pink Evening-primroseOenothera speciosa
- Roundleaf ThoroughwortEupatorium rotundifolium
- Showy Evening-primroseOenothera grandis
- Threadleaf SundropsOenothera linifolia
- White SnakerootAgeratina altissima
- YankeeweedEupatorium compositifolium
- Wild StrawberryFragaria virginiana
- Blue VervainVerbena hastata
- Carolina Crane's-billGeranium carolinianum
- False GarlicNothoscordum bivalve
- Pale SmartweedPersicaria lapathifolia
- Swamp SmartweedPersicaria hydropiperoides
- Bushy KnotweedPolygonum ramosissimum subsp. prolificum
- Carolina VetchVicia caroliniana
- False Indigo-bushAmorpha fruticosa
- Gattingers HawthornCrataegus gattingeri
- Groundsel-treeBaccharis halimifolia
- Striped Cream VioletViola striata
- WingstemVerbesina alternifolia
- Bracted VervainVerbena bracteata
- Hoary VervainVerbena stricta
- Narrowleaf VervainVerbena simplex
- Rose VervainGlandularia canadensis
- Texas VervainVerbena halei
- Winged ElmUlmus alata
- American PersimmonDiospyros virginiana
- Blackeyed SusanRudbeckia hirta var. pulcherrima
- Climbing RoseRosa setigera
- Common ElderberrySambucus nigra subsp. canadensis
- Erect KnotweedPolygonum erectum
- Eustis Lake BeardtonguePenstemon australis
- Foxglove BeardtonguePenstemon digitalis
- Giant IronweedVernonia gigantea
- Green AshFraxinus pennsylvanica
- Pale BeardtonguePenstemon pallidus
- Pennsylvania SmartweedPersicaria pensylvanica
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Arkansas. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 119
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Great-tailed GrackleQuiscalus mexicanus
- Greater RoadrunnerGeococcyx californianus
- Harris's SparrowZonotrichia querula
- Henslow's SparrowAmmodramus henslowii
- Horned LarkEremophila alpestris
- House FinchCarpodacus mexicanus
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- KilldeerCharadrius vociferus
- Lapland LongspurCalcarius lapponicus
- Lark SparrowChondestes grammacus
- Le Conte's SparrowAmmodramus leconteii
- Least FlycatcherEmpidonax minimus
- Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolnii
- Loggerhead ShrikeLanius ludovicianus
- Long-eared OwlAsio otus
- MerlinFalco columbarius
- Mississippi KiteIctinia mississippiensis
- Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
- Northern BobwhiteColinus virginianus
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
- Orange-crowned WarblerVermivora celata
- Orchard OrioleIcterus spurius
- Painted BuntingPasserina ciris
- Palm WarblerDendroica palmarum
- Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatus
- Pine SiskinCarduelis pinus
- Prairie WarblerDendroica discolor
- Purple FinchCarpodacus purpureus
- Purple MartinProgne subis
- Red CrossbillLoxia curvirostra
- Red-bellied WoodpeckerMelanerpes carolinus
- Red-headed WoodpeckerMelanerpes erythrocephalus
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
- Ring-necked PheasantPhasianus colchicus
- Rock PigeonColumba livia
- Rough-legged HawkButeo lagopus
- Ruby-crowned KingletRegulus calendula
- Ruby-throated HummingbirdArchilochus colubris
- Ruffed GrouseBonasa umbellus
- Savannah SparrowPasserculus sandwichensis
- Scissor-tailed FlycatcherTyrannus forficatus
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
Near water in this habitat 32
These use it only close to water, such as stream banks for nesting.
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American WigeonAnas americana
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterus
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- DunlinCalidris alpina
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Greater White-fronted GooseAnser albifrons
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Interior Least TernSternula antillarum athalassos
- Least TernSternula antillarum
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Northern ParulaParula americana
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- Red-shouldered HawkButeo lineatus
- Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
- Ross's GooseChen rossii
- Rusty BlackbirdEuphagus carolinus
- Sandhill CraneGrus canadensis
- Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatus
- SoraPorzana carolina
- Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
- Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopus
- White-faced IbisPlegadis chihi
- Wilson's SnipeGallinago delicata
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
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.