Habitat in Arkansas
Hardwood and oak flatwoods
Flat, poorly drained uplands and terraces with oaks, sweetgum and sometimes loblolly pine, wet in winter and dry in summer, but neither a floodplain nor a swamp. NatureServe
- Plants
- 15
- Birds
- 106
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Arkansas. Not a planting list.
- Pin OakQuercus palustris
- Nutmeg HickoryCarya myristiciformis
- PecanCarya illinoinensis
- Shellbark HickoryCarya laciniosa
- Cat GreenbrierSmilax glauca
- Lanceleaf GreenbrierSmilax smallii
- Barrens MilkweedAsclepias hirtella
- Longs SedgeCarex longii
- Rafinesque's SeedboxLudwigia hirtella
- Dwarf PalmettoSabal minor
- Michigan LilyLilium michiganense
- Wolf's SpikerushEleocharis wolfii
- Bushs MuhlyMuhlenbergia bushii
- Inland MuhlyMuhlenbergia glabrifloris
- Barbed Rattlesnake RootPrenanthes barbata
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Arkansas. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 97
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- American WoodcockScolopax minor
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Barred OwlStrix varia
- Black-and-White WarblerMniotilta varia
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
- Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Blue-headed VireoVireo solitarius
- Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
- Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterus
- Brown CreeperCerthia americana
- Brown ThrasherToxostoma rufum
- Brown-headed NuthatchSitta pusilla
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Common Ground-doveColumbina passerina
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Downy WoodpeckerPicoides pubescens
- Eared GrebePodiceps nigricollis
- Eastern BluebirdSialia sialis
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
- Eastern Wood-peweeContopus virens
- Eurasian Collared-doveStreptopelia decaocto
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Golden-crowned KingletRegulus satrapa
- Gray CatbirdDumetella carolinensis
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Great-tailed GrackleQuiscalus mexicanus
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Hairy WoodpeckerPicoides villosus
- Hermit ThrushCatharus guttatus
- Hooded WarblerWilsonia citrina
- Kentucky WarblerOporornis formosus
- Lark SparrowChondestes grammacus
Near water in this habitat 9
These use it only close to water, such as stream banks for nesting.
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black-bellied Whistling-DuckDendrocygna autumnalis
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Louisiana WaterthrushSeiurus motacilla
- Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
Sources
- NatureServe, ecological systems of the United States 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.