Habitat in Florida
Coastal dunes and beaches
Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them. Schafale
- Plants
- 187
- Birds
- 183
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Florida. Not a planting list.
- RubbervineRhabdadenia biflora
- Hairy PinweedLechea mucronata
- Bindweed Dwarf Morning-gloryEvolvulus convolvuloides
- Perennial SandgrassTriplasis americana
- Purple SandgrassTriplasis purpurea
- Carolina GrasswortLilaeopsis carolinensis
- Ware's HairsedgeBulbostylis warei
- White ScrewstemBartonia verna
- Yellow ScrewstemBartonia virginica
- Beach CreeperErnodea littoralis
- Florida MaytenTricerma phyllanthoides
- Florida NailwortParonychia discoveryi
- Gratiola hispidaSophronanthe hispida
- Allamanda catharticaAllamanda cathartica
- Beach Creeping OxeyePascalia glauca
- Beach Evening-primroseOenothera drummondii
- Beach WormwoodArtemisia stelleriana
- Caribbean CowpeaSigmoidotropis antillana
- Century PlantAgave angustifolia
- Common FigFicus carica
- Indian MulberryMorinda citrifolia
- Largeleaf PennywortHydrocotyle bonariensis
- Lazy DaisyAphanostephus skirrhobasis var. thalassius
- Little-bellIpomoea triloba
- Mauritius HempFurcraea foetida
- Puncture-vineTribulus terrestris
- Red SpiderlingBoerhavia coccinea
- Sea FigCarpobrotus edulis
- Silverleaf SunflowerHelianthus argophyllus
- Slender AmaranthAmaranthus viridis
- Smooth JoyweedAlternanthera paronichyoides
- Solidago sempervirensSolidago sempervirens
- Trailing IndigoIndigofera spicata
- Water MedickMedicago littoralis
- Wild PeaLeptospron adenanthum
- Cocos nuciferaCocos nucifera
- Crowfoot GrassDactyloctenium aegyptium
- Sisal HempAgave sisalana
- West Indian AlmondTerminalia catappa
- American Rat's Tail GrassSporobolus jacquemontii
- Beach VitexVitex rotundifolia
- Gray SheOakCasuarina glauca
- LatherleafColubrina asiatica
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Florida. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 183
- American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American FlamingoPhoenicopterus ruber
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- American OystercatcherHaematopus palliatus
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- American White PelicanPelecanus erythrorhynchos
- American WigeonAnas americana
- American WoodcockScolopax minor
- Antillean NighthawkChordeiles gundlachii
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black RailLaterallus jamaicensis
- Black SkimmerRynchops niger
- Black VultureCoragyps atratus
- Black-bellied PloverPluvialis squatarola
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanus
- Black-throated Green WarblerDendroica virens
- Blue-winged TealAnas discors
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphia
- Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
- Bridled TernOnychoprion anaethetus
- Brown NoddyAnous stolidus
- Brown PelicanPelecanus occidentalis
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Cape May WarblerDendroica tigrina
- Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
- Cave SwallowPetrochelidon fulva
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Chuck-will's-widowCaprimulgus carolinensis
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common Ground-doveColumbina passerina
- Common LoonGavia immer
- Common MynaAcridotheres tristis
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
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.