Habitat in Florida
Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone
Open, thin-soil openings and rock on limestone, dolomite or other lime-rich rock, including cedar glades. Schafale
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Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Florida. Not a planting list.
- American BlueheartsBuchnera americana
- Nettleleaf NoseburnTragia urticifolia
- Shortleaf Skeleton-grassGymnopogon brevifolius
- Pineland SquareheadTetragonotheca helianthoides
- White Blue-eyed-grassSisyrinchium albidum
- Blackstem SpleenwortAsplenium resiliens
- Ebony SpleenwortAsplenium platyneuron
- Fimbristylis puberulaFimbristylis puberula
- Maidenhair SpleenwortAsplenium trichomanes
- Single-sorus SpleenwortAsplenium monanthes
- Standing-cypressIpomopsis rubra
- Asplenium heterochroumAsplenium heterochroum
- Brittle MaidenhairAdiantum tenerum
- Marl SpleenwortAsplenium × heteroresiliens
- Modest SpleenwortAsplenium verecundum
- Ten-petal AnemoneAnemone berlandieri
- Lax HornpodMitreola petiolata
- Tennessee LeafcupPolymnia laevigata
- Limestone Adders TongueOphioglossum engelmannii
- Purple-stem CliffbrakePellaea atropurpurea
- White-nymphTrepocarpus aethusae
- Yellow SunnybellSchoenolirion croceum
- Alabama LipfernMyriopteris alabamensis
- Black BogrushSchoenus nigricans
- Maidenhair Pineland FernAnemia adiantifolia
- Southern Lip FernMyriopteris microphylla
- Wedgelet FernSphenomeris clavata
- Widespread PolypodyPecluma dispersa
- Blackberry-lilyIris domestica
- Button MedickMedicago orbicularis
- Japanese Holly-fernCyrtomium falcatum
- Salvia farinaceaSalvia farinacea
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Florida. Shared habitat, not food.
No wildlife recorded in this habitat in Florida 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)
- Cedar Glade Number 5, Chickamauga and Chattanooga NMP, Catoosa County, Alan M. Cressler / U.S. Geological Survey habitat picture
Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.