Habitat in Florida
Coastal Plain hammocks
Dense, evergreen groves of live oak, magnolia and other hardwoods in the southern Coastal Plain, from dry oak domes to wet hydric hammocks and south Florida's tropical hammocks; salt-shaped maritime hammocks are maritime forests. NatureServe
- Plants
- 554
- Birds
- 125
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Florida. Not a planting list.
- Slender Looseflower SedgeCarex gracilescens
- West Indian SatinwoodZanthoxylum flavum
- Wild LimeZanthoxylum fagara
- Acacia macracanthaVachellia macracantha
- CinnecordVachellia choriophylla
- Lyreleaf SageSalvia lyrata
- Wild Sweet BasilOcimum campechianum
- Cenchrus myosuroidesCenchrus myosuroides
- Digitaria serotinaDigitaria serotina
- Florida CrabgrassDigitaria floridana
- Pineland LobeliaLobelia homophylla
- Black WalnutJuglans nigra
- Net Leaf Leather FlowerClematis reticulata
- Oakleaf HydrangeaHydrangea quercifolia
- Pineland False ButtonweedSpermacoce tetraquetra
- White Leaf Leather FlowerClematis glaucophylla
- Zigzag SpiderwortTradescantia subaspera
- Bigflower PawpawAsimina obovata
- Catclaw BlackbeadPithecellobium unguis-cati
- Dominican SignalgrassUrochloa adspersa
- Florida Keys BlackbeadPithecellobium keyense
- Coastal Virgin's-bowerClematis catesbyana
- Bahama Wild CoffeePsychotria ligustrifolia
- Dichanthelium strigosum var. glabrescensDichanthelium strigosum var. glabrescens
- Gulf Coast Swallow-wortPattalias palustris
- Gumbo LimboBursera simaruba
- Heliopsis gracilisHeliopsis gracilis
- Shortleaf Wild CoffeePsychotria tenuifolia
- Wild CoffeePsychotria nervosa
- Callirhoe papaverCallirhoe papaver
- Cape Sable ThoroughwortChromolaena frustrata
- Coastal Indian MallowAbutilon permolle
- Cyperus distinctusCyperus distinctus
- Cyperus thyrsiflorusCyperus thyrsiflorus
- Jack-in-the-bushChromolaena odorata
- Phlox floridanaPhlox floridana
- West Indian Cock's CombCelosia nitida
- American DodderCuscuta americana
- Black IronwoodKrugiodendron ferreum
- Marine-ivyCissus trifoliata
- Setaria macrospermaSetaria macrosperma
- Tall DodderCuscuta exaltata
- Yellow JoyweedAlternanthera flavescens
- Devil's ClawsPisonia aculeata
- Rhynchosia minimaRhynchosia minima
- Small-leaf SnoutbeanRhynchosia parvifolia
- Swartz's SnoutbeanRhynchosia swartzii
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Florida. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 125
- Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
- Barred OwlStrix varia
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black VultureCoragyps atratus
- Black-and-White WarblerMniotilta varia
- Black-bellied Whistling-DuckDendrocygna autumnalis
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Black-whiskered VireoVireo altiloquus
- Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
- Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterus
- Brown CreeperCerthia americana
- Brown ThrasherToxostoma rufum
- Brown-headed CowbirdMolothrus ater
- Cape May WarblerDendroica tigrina
- Carolina ChickadeePoecile carolinensis
- Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Chuck-will's-widowCaprimulgus carolinensis
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common Ground-doveColumbina passerina
- Common MynaAcridotheres tristis
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Downy WoodpeckerPicoides pubescens
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- Eastern Wood-peweeContopus virens
- Eurasian Collared-doveStreptopelia decaocto
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- Florida Scrub-jayAphelocoma coerulescens
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.