Habitat in Mississippi
Glades, barrens and outcrops on mafic or serpentine rock
Open, thin-soil openings, outcrops and cliffs on dark, magnesium- or iron-rich rock such as serpentine, diabase or gabbro. Schafale
- Plants
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Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Mississippi. Not a planting list.
- Side Oats Grama; Sideoats GramaBouteloua curtipendula var. curtipendula
- Composite DropseedSporobolus compositus var. compositus
- Ozark DropseedSporobolus vaginiflorus var. ozarkanus
- Pineywoods DropseedSporobolus junceus
- Curtiss's MilkwortSenega curtissii
- Eastern Shooting-starPrimula meadia
- Smooth RockcressBorodinia laevigata
- Canada RockcressBorodinia canadensis
- Great Plains Ladies TressesSpiranthes magnicamporum
- Yellow FumewortCorydalis flavula
- American BlueheartsBuchnera americana
- Maidenhair SpleenwortAsplenium trichomanes
- Northern Maidenhair FernAdiantum pedatum
- SpiderlilyHymenocallis occidentalis var. occidentalis
- White ColicrootAletris farinosa
- Eastern Feather BellsStenanthium gramineum var. gramineum
- Nettleleaf NoseburnTragia urticifolia
- Pitchers StitchwortSabulina patula
- Purple-stem CliffbrakePellaea atropurpurea
- Midwestern Stiff GoldenrodOligoneuron rigidum
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Mississippi. Shared habitat, not food.
No wildlife recorded in this habitat in Mississippi 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.