Habitat in Arkansas
Glades, barrens and outcrops on mafic or serpentine rock
Open, thin-soil openings, outcrops and cliffs on dark, magnesium- or iron-rich rock such as serpentine, diabase or gabbro. Schafale
- Plants
- 68
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Arkansas. Not a planting list.
Most characteristic plants of this habitat 68
Natives first, plants found in fewer other habitats first.
- White ColicrootAletris farinosa
- Narrowleaf VervainVerbena simplex
- Elliptical RushfoilCroton willdenowii
- Whorled MilkweedAsclepias verticillata
- Green MilkweedAsclepias viridiflora
- Maryland SennaSenna marilandica
- Prairie DockSilphium terebinthinaceum
- Rock ButtercupRanunculus micranthus
- Waxyleaf Meadow-rueThalictrum amphibolum
- Scarlet Indian-paintbrushCastilleja coccinea
- River OatsChasmanthium latifolium
- Lanceleaf BluetHoustonia purpurea var. calycosa
- Mexican MuhlyMuhlenbergia mexicana
- American BlueheartsBuchnera americana
- Dark Indigo BushAmorpha nitens
- Eastern Shooting-starPrimula meadia
- Porter's ReedgrassCalamagrostis porteri
- Rusty BlackhawViburnum rufidulum
- Pitchers StitchwortSabulina patula
- Canada RockcressBorodinia canadensis
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Arkansas. Shared habitat, not food.
No wildlife recorded in this habitat in Arkansas 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.