Habitat in Louisiana
Sandhills
Dry, deep-sand ridges with longleaf pine and turkey oak, kept open by fire. Schafale
- Plants
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Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Louisiana. Not a planting list.
- Sand Tick-trefoilDesmodium lineatum
- Stiff Tick-trefoilDesmodium obtusum
- Clasping MilkweedAsclepias amplexicaulis
- Red MilkweedAsclepias rubra
- Florida PaspalumPaspalum floridanum
- Heartleaf SandmatEuphorbia cordifolia
- Maritime PokeweedPhytolacca americana var. rigida
- Pitchfork CrowngrassPaspalum bifidum
- Southeastern Flowering SpurgeEuphorbia pubentissima
- Bog SpicebushLindera subcoriacea
- Southern Flat-top AsterDoellingeria sericocarpoides
- Chattahoochee False FoxgloveAgalinis plukenetii
- Pinebarren SedgeCarex turgescens
- SourwoodOxydendrum arboreum
- Wire SedgeCarex tenax
- Appalachian Blazing-starLiatris squarrulosa
- Lax Blazing-starLiatris secunda
- Tufted Yellow WoodsorrelOxalis colorea
- Threadleaf False FoxgloveAgalinis setacea
- Common YuccaYucca filamentosa
- Goat's-rueTephrosia virginiana
- Spiked Hoary-peaTephrosia spicata
- Trailing Fuzzy-beanStrophostyles helvola
- Net Leaf Leather FlowerClematis reticulata
- White Leaf Leather FlowerClematis glaucophylla
- Dune SandspurCenchrus tribuloides
- Heller's WitchgrassDichanthelium oligosanthes var. oligosanthes
- Shaggy CrabgrassDigitaria villosa
- Slender CrabgrassDigitaria filiformis
- Dixie Whitetop AsterSericocarpus tortifolius
- Narrowleaf Whitetop AsterSericocarpus linifolius
- Slender Scratch-daisyCroptilon divaricatum
- Common SweetleafSymplocos tinctoria
- Bristly FlatsedgeCyperus hystricinus
- Globe FlatsedgeCyperus echinatus
- Plukenet's FlatsedgeCyperus plukenetii
- Spreading SpiderlingBoerhavia diffusa
- Combleaf Yellow False FoxgloveAureolaria pectinata
- Feather-bristle BeaksedgeRhynchospora oligantha
- Fewflower BeaksedgeRhynchospora rariflora
- Gray's BeaksedgeRhynchospora grayi
- Harvey's BeaksedgeRhynchospora harveyi
- Large BeaksedgeRhynchospora macra
- Carolina Yellow-eyed-grassXyris caroliniana
- Chapman's Yellow-eyed-grassXyris chapmanii
- Coral-beanErythrina herbacea
- Dollarleaf SnoutbeanRhynchosia reniformis
- Doubleform SnoutbeanRhynchosia difformis
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.