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
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- DunlinCalidris alpina
- Eastern Brown PelicanPelecanus occidentalis carolinensis
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- Eurasian Collared-doveStreptopelia decaocto
- Eurasian WigeonAnas penelope
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Field SparrowSpizella pusilla
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- Florida Burrowing OwlAthene cunicularia floridana
- Forster's TernSterna forsteri
- Fulvous Whistling-duckDendrocygna bicolor
- GadwallAnas strepera
- Glaucous GullLarus hyperboreus
- Glossy IbisPlegadis falcinellus
- Grasshopper SparrowAmmodramus savannarum
- Gray KingbirdTyrannus dominicensis
- Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Gull-billed TernGelochelidon nilotica
- Henslow's SparrowAmmodramus henslowii
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- Horned GrebePodiceps auritus
- Horned LarkEremophila alpestris
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- KilldeerCharadrius vociferus
- King RailRallus elegans
- Lapland LongspurCalcarius lapponicus
- Laughing GullLeucophaeus atricilla
- Le Conte's SparrowAmmodramus leconteii
- Least BitternIxobrychus exilis
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Least TernSternula antillarum
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
- Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
- LimpkinAramus guarauna
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Little GullHydrocoloeus minutus
- Loggerhead ShrikeLanius ludovicianus
- Long-billed CurlewNumenius americanus
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.