Habitat in Louisiana
Glades, barrens and outcrops on limestone
Open, thin-soil openings and rock on limestone, dolomite or other lime-rich rock, including cedar glades. Schafale
- Plants
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Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Louisiana. Not a planting list.
Most characteristic plants of this habitat 86
Natives first, plants found in fewer other habitats first.
- Grooved Yellow FlaxLinum sulcatum
- Tapertip FlatsedgeCyperus acuminatus
- Starrush Whitetop SedgeRhynchospora colorata
- Pineywoods DropseedSporobolus junceus
- Hairy Four-o'clockMirabilis albida
- Ten-petal AnemoneAnemone berlandieri
- White Blue-eyed-grassSisyrinchium albidum
- Northern Maidenhair FernAdiantum pedatum
- Red River ScaleseedSpermolepis inermis
- White-nymphTrepocarpus aethusae
- Yellow SunnybellSchoenolirion croceum
- Elliptical RushfoilCroton willdenowii
- Green MilkweedAsclepias viridiflora
- Lyreleaf SageSalvia lyrata
- Lanceleaf BluetHoustonia purpurea var. calycosa
- River OatsChasmanthium latifolium
- Wild HyacinthCamassia scilloides
- American BlueheartsBuchnera americana
- Fimbristylis puberulaFimbristylis puberula
- Shortleaf Skeleton-grassGymnopogon brevifolius
- Standing-cypressIpomopsis rubra
- Lax HornpodMitreola petiolata
- Hairy Wild-petuniaRuellia humilis
- Eastern Shooting-starPrimula meadia
- Hair-awn MuhlyMuhlenbergia capillaris
- Rusty BlackhawViburnum rufidulum
- Dark Indigo BushAmorpha nitens
- Whorled MilkweedAsclepias verticillata
- SupplejackBerchemia scandens
- Button MedickMedicago orbicularis
- Pitchers StitchwortSabulina patula
- Prairie BroomweedAmphiachyris dracunculoides
- Ringseed RushJuncus filipendulus
- Kunth's Maiden-fernPelazoneuron kunthii
- Wedgeleaf DrabaDraba cuneifolia
- Blackberry-lilyBelamcanda chinensis
- Groovestem Indian PlantainArnoglossum plantagineum
- Japanese Holly-fernCyrtomium falcatum
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Louisiana. Shared habitat, not food.
No wildlife recorded in this habitat in Louisiana 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)
Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.