Habitat in Mississippi
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots. Schafale
- Plants
- 1094
- Birds
- 161
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Mississippi. Not a planting list.
- Annual FleabaneErigeron annuus
- Canada LettuceLactuca canadensis
- Coastal Plain Lettuce; Grassleaf LettuceLactuca graminifolia var. graminifolia
- Common Rough FleabaneErigeron strigosus var. strigosus
- Hairy Fleabane; Robins PlantainErigeron pulchellus var. pulchellus
- Nuttall's ThistleCirsium nuttallii
- Philadelphia FleabaneErigeron philadelphicus var. philadelphicus
- Southern HorseweedConyza canadensis var. pusilla
- Staghorn SumacRhus typhina
- Strawstem BeggarticksBidens tripartita
- Tall BeggarticksBidens vulgata
- Yellow Thistle; Bull Thistle; Horrid ThistleCirsium horridulum var. horridulum
- Gulf VervainVerbena xutha
- Late-flowering ThoroughwortEupatorium serotinum
- Silver MapleAcer saccharinum
- Blue MistflowerConoclinium coelestinum
- Tall ThoroughwortEupatorium altissimum
- Wild Potato-vineIpomoea pandurata
- ButterweedPackera glabella
- Eastern HawthornCrataegus macrosperma
- Hollow Joe-pye-weedEutrochium fistulosum
- One-flowered HawthornCrataegus uniflora
- Small's RagwortPackera anonyma
- Washington HawthornCrataegus phaenopyrum
- White SnakerootAgeratina altissima
- Biennial BeeblossomGaura biennis
- Common Evening-primroseOenothera biennis
- Cutleaf Evening-primroseOenothera laciniata
- Dog-fennelEupatorium capillifolium
- Fragrant Sumac; Squawbush; Squaw BushRhus aromatica var. aromatica
- Groundsel-treeBaccharis halimifolia
- Hyssopleaf ThoroughwortEupatorium hyssopifolium
- Large-flower Evening-primroseOenothera grandiflora
- Midwestern Evening-primroseOenothera pilosella
- Roundleaf ThoroughwortEupatorium rotundifolium
- Seabeach Evening-primroseOenothera humifusa
- Small SundropsOenothera perennis
- Southern BeeblossomGaura angustifolia
- Threadleaf SundropsOenothera linifolia
- YankeeweedEupatorium compositifolium
- Scarlet RosemallowHibiscus coccineus
- Blue VervainVerbena hastata
- Carolina Crane's-billGeranium carolinianum
- Pale SmartweedPersicaria lapathifolia
- Swamp SmartweedPersicaria hydropiperoides
- Blue Sandhill LupineLupinus diffusus
- Carolina VetchVicia caroliniana
- False GarlicNothoscordum bivalve
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Mississippi. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 123
- Glaucous GullLarus hyperboreus
- Golden-winged WarblerVermivora chrysoptera
- Grasshopper SparrowAmmodramus savannarum
- Gray KingbirdTyrannus dominicensis
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Great-tailed GrackleQuiscalus mexicanus
- Henslow's SparrowAmmodramus henslowii
- Horned LarkEremophila alpestris
- House FinchCarpodacus mexicanus
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- KilldeerCharadrius vociferus
- Lapland LongspurCalcarius lapponicus
- Lark SparrowChondestes grammacus
- Laughing GullLeucophaeus atricilla
- Le Conte's SparrowAmmodramus leconteii
- Least FlycatcherEmpidonax minimus
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolnii
- Loggerhead ShrikeLanius ludovicianus
- Long-eared OwlAsio otus
- MerlinFalco columbarius
- Mississippi KiteIctinia mississippiensis
- Monk ParakeetMyiopsitta monachus
- Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
- Northern BobwhiteColinus virginianus
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
- Orange-crowned WarblerVermivora celata
- Orchard OrioleIcterus spurius
- Painted BuntingPasserina ciris
- Palm WarblerDendroica palmarum
- Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
- Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatus
- Pine SiskinCarduelis pinus
- Prairie WarblerDendroica discolor
- Purple FinchCarpodacus purpureus
- Purple MartinProgne subis
- Red CrossbillLoxia curvirostra
- Red-bellied WoodpeckerMelanerpes carolinus
- Red-headed WoodpeckerMelanerpes erythrocephalus
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
- Rock PigeonColumba livia
- Ruby-crowned KingletRegulus calendula
- Ruby-throated HummingbirdArchilochus colubris
Near water in this habitat 38
These use it only close to water, such as stream banks for nesting.
- American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American WigeonAnas americana
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Black-bellied PloverPluvialis squatarola
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterus
- Cackling GooseBranta hutchinsii
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- DunlinCalidris alpina
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Interior Least TernSternula antillarum athalassos
- Least TernSternula antillarum
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Mottled DuckAnas fulvigula
- Northern ParulaParula americana
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- Piping PloverCharadrius melodus
- Red-shouldered HawkButeo lineatus
- Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
- Rusty BlackbirdEuphagus carolinus
- Sandhill CraneGrus canadensis
- Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatus
- SoraPorzana carolina
- Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
- Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopus
- Swallow-tailed KiteElanoides forficatus
- White-faced IbisPlegadis chihi
- Wilson's SnipeGallinago delicata
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
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.