Habitat in Louisiana
Glades, barrens and outcrops on mafic or serpentine rock
Open, thin-soil openings, outcrops and cliffs on dark, magnesium- or iron-rich rock such as serpentine, diabase or gabbro. Schafale
- Plants
- 52
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Louisiana. Not a planting list.
- Purple-stem CliffbrakePellaea atropurpurea
- Big BluestemAndropogon gerardi
- Curtiss's MilkwortSenega curtissii
- Pitchers StitchwortSabulina patula
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.