Habitat in Louisiana
Sandhills
Dry, deep-sand ridges with longleaf pine and turkey oak, kept open by fire. Schafale
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Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Louisiana. Not a planting list.
- SparkleberryVaccinium arboreum
- Smallflower BlueberryVaccinium virgatum
- Carolina HollyIlex ambigua
- InkberryIlex glabra
- Common Clasping AsterSymphyotrichum patens var. patens
- Southern Roughleaf GoldenrodSolidago patula var. strictula
- Sweet GoldenrodSolidago odora
- Twistleaf GoldenrodSolidago tortifolia
- Bluejack OakQuercus incana
- Darlington OakQuercus hemisphaerica
- Turkey OakQuercus laevis
- Poison SumacToxicodendron vernix
- Dwarf Live OakQuercus minima
- Wild Potato-vineIpomoea pandurata
- Atlantic Poison-oakToxicodendron pubescens
- Lesser SnakerootAgeratina aromatica
- Rough HawthornCrataegus senta
- Wedgeleaf ThoroughwortEupatorium glaucescens
- YankeeweedEupatorium compositifolium
- Dwarf HuckleberryGaylussacia dumosa
- Confederate HuckleberryGaylussacia nana
- Dark Indigo BushAmorpha nitens
- Lady LupineLupinus villosus
- Mountain LaurelKalmia latifolia
- Primrose-leaf VioletViola primulifolia
- Southern Coastal VioletViola septemloba
- Cream Wild IndigoBaptisia bracteata
- Rose VervainGlandularia canadensis
- American PersimmonDiospyros virginiana
- Granite GooseberryRibes curvatum
- Narrowleaf RushfoilCroton michauxii
- Longleaf PinePinus palustris
- McCree's MilkpeaGalactia volubilis
- Cottony Golden-asterChrysopsis gossypina
- Cutleaf Ground-cherryPhysalis angulata
- Erect MilkpeaGalactia erecta
- Eustis Lake BeardtonguePenstemon australis
- Maryland Golden-asterChrysopsis mariana
- Narrowleaf SilkgrassPityopsis graminifolia
- Shortleaf PinePinus echinata
- Small-headed SilkgrassPityopsis graminifolia var. tenuifolia
- Whorled MilkweedAsclepias verticillata
- Slender LespedezaLespedeza virginica
- Southern BayberryMorella caroliniensis
- Low St. John's-wortHypericum hypericoides subsp. multicaule
- Tall LespedezaLespedeza stuevei
- Fernald's Tick-trefoilDesmodium fernaldii
- Pine-barren Tick-trefoilDesmodium strictum
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.