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Habitat in Mississippi

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

Source 1

Plants
1095
Birds
161
Old-Salem-fields-tn1
Open farm fields near Old Salem, Tennessee, with grain bins and barns and the Cumberland Plateau edge on the horizon. Shown: Old Salem community, Franklin County, Tennessee, a neighboring state. Old-Salem-fields-tn1, Brian Stansberry, 2015-05-02. CC BY 3.0. Source.

Plants

Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Mississippi. Not a planting list.

Most characteristic plants of this habitat 1095

Natives first, plants found in fewer other habitats first.

Sources 2, 3, 4

Wildlife

Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Mississippi. Shared habitat, not food.

Most characteristic birds of this habitat 0

Near water in this habitat 34

These use it only close to water, such as stream banks for nesting.

Widespread birds also seen here (39)

Found in many habitats here, so not listed above.

Sources 5, 6, 7

Sources

  1. Schafale, Guide to the Natural Communities of North Carolina, Fourth Approximation (NC Natural Heritage Program, 2012) habitat description
  2. Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition, habitat text phone app
  3. NC Parks species accounts
  4. USDA Forest Service Fire Effects Information System (reviewed notes)
  5. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
  6. USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001)
  7. NatureServe Explorer ecological systems (CC BY 4.0)
  8. Old-Salem-fields-tn1, Brian Stansberry habitat picture

Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.