Habitat in Florida
Pine savannas
Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil. Schafale
- Plants
- 339
- Birds
- 131
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Florida. Not a planting list.
- Baldwins Flat SedgeCyperus croceus
- Chapman's BeaksedgeRhynchospora chapmanii
- Clustered BeaksedgeRhynchospora glomerata
- Elliott's BeaksedgeRhynchospora elliottii
- Fairy BeaksedgeRhynchospora pusilla
- Fascicled BeaksedgeRhynchospora fascicularis
- Feather-bristle BeaksedgeRhynchospora oligantha
- Fewflower BeaksedgeRhynchospora rariflora
- Fringed BeaksedgeRhynchospora ciliaris
- Giant Whitetop SedgeRhynchospora latifolia
- Globe BeaksedgeRhynchospora globularis
- Harvey's BeaksedgeRhynchospora harveyi
- Longbeak BeaksedgeRhynchospora scirpoides
- Loosehead BeaksedgeRhynchospora chalarocephala
- Nodding BeaksedgeRhynchospora inexpansa
- Pagoda BeaksedgeRhynchospora compressa
- Plumed BeaksedgeRhynchospora plumosa
- Savanna BeaksedgeRhynchospora debilis
- Savanna Mountain-mintPycnanthemum flexuosum
- Short-bristle BeaksedgeRhynchospora galeana
- Shortbeak BeaksedgeRhynchospora nitens
- Slender BeaksedgeRhynchospora gracilenta
- Southern BeaksedgeRhynchospora microcarpa
- Spreading BeaksedgeRhynchospora divergens
- Starrush Whitetop SedgeRhynchospora colorata
- Thorne's BeaksedgeRhynchospora thornei
- Threadleaf BeaksedgeRhynchospora filifolia
- Wright's BeaksedgeRhynchospora wrightiana
- Compact DodderCuscuta compacta
- Fringed Meadow-beautyRhexia petiolata
- Nash's Meadow-beautyRhexia nashii
- Savanna Meadow-beautyRhexia alifanus
- Virginia Meadow-beautyRhexia virginica
- West Indian Meadow-beautyRhexia cubensis
- White Indian PlantainArnoglossum album
- Yellow Meadow-beautyRhexia lutea
- Rose Pitcherplant; Rose Pitcher PlantSarracenia rosea
- Sarracenia psittacinaSarracenia psittacina
- Awned Mountain-mintPycnanthemum setosum
- Sporobolus floridanusSporobolus floridanus
- Whitetop PitcherplantSarracenia leucophylla
- Yellow PitcherplantSarracenia flava
- Cone-cup SpikerushEleocharis tuberculosa
- Cooley's Meadow-rueThalictrum cooleyi
- Limestone Yelloweyed GrassXyris calcicola
- Quillwort Yellow Eyed GrassXyris isoetifolia
- Three-angle SpikerushEleocharis tricostata
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Florida. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 131
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Field SparrowSpizella pusilla
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- Golden-crowned KingletRegulus satrapa
- Gray KingbirdTyrannus dominicensis
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Hairy WoodpeckerPicoides villosus
- Henslow's SparrowAmmodramus henslowii
- Hermit ThrushCatharus guttatus
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- King RailRallus elegans
- Lapland LongspurCalcarius lapponicus
- Le Conte's SparrowAmmodramus leconteii
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
- LimpkinAramus guarauna
- Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolnii
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Little GullHydrocoloeus minutus
- Loggerhead ShrikeLanius ludovicianus
- Long-billed CurlewNumenius americanus
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- Magnificent FrigatebirdFregata magnificens
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Marsh WrenCistothorus palustris
- MerlinFalco columbarius
- Mississippi KiteIctinia mississippiensis
- Mottled DuckAnas fulvigula
- Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
- Northern BobwhiteColinus virginianus
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- Northern WaterthrushSeiurus noveboracensis
- Orchard OrioleIcterus spurius
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Painted BuntingPasserina ciris
- Palm WarblerDendroica palmarum
- Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
- Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatus
- Purple FinchCarpodacus purpureus
- Purple GallinulePorphyrio martinica
- Red-bellied WoodpeckerMelanerpes carolinus
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.