Habitat in Louisiana
Sandhills
Dry, deep-sand ridges with longleaf pine and turkey oak, kept open by fire. Schafale
- Plants
- 165
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Louisiana. Not a planting list.
Most characteristic plants of this habitat 165
Natives first, plants found in fewer other habitats first.
- Thread Stalk BeeblossomGaura filipes
- Common YuccaYucca filamentosa
- Chapman's RedtopTridens flavus var. chapmanii
- Hairy AngelicaAngelica venenosa
- Hair-awn MuhlyMuhlenbergia capillaris
- Roughfruit ScaleseedSpermolepis divaricata
- Dark Indigo BushAmorpha nitens
- American PersimmonDiospyros virginiana
- Whorled MilkweedAsclepias verticillata
- Longspike FluffgrassTridens strictus
- Sidebeak Pencil-flowerStylosanthes biflora
- White ColicrootAletris farinosa
- Carolina VervainStylodon carneus
- Sand Post OakQuercus margarettiae
- Wand MulleinVerbascum virgatum
- Purple SilkyscaleAnthaenantia rufa
- Racemed MilkwortSenega polygama
- Southern BrackenPteridium aquilinum var. pseudocaudatum
- Big BluestemAndropogon gerardi
- Woolly RagwortPackera tomentosa
- Stiff AsterIonactis linariifolia
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.