Habitat in Mississippi
Sandhills
Dry, deep-sand ridges with longleaf pine and turkey oak, kept open by fire. Schafale
- Plants
- 236
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Mississippi. Not a planting list.
Most characteristic plants of this habitat 236
Natives first, plants found in fewer other habitats first.
- Paronychia patulaParonychia patula
- Spiked MedusaPteroglossaspis ecristata
- SparkleberryVaccinium arboreum
- Helianthus radulaHelianthus radula
- Southern Roughleaf GoldenrodSolidago patula var. strictula
- Sweet GoldenrodSolidago odora
- Darlington OakQuercus hemisphaerica
- Coastal Plain Lettuce; Grassleaf LettuceLactuca graminifolia var. graminifolia
- Poison SumacToxicodendron vernix
- Quercus myrtifoliaQuercus myrtifolia
- Lesser SnakerootAgeratina aromatica
- Dwarf HuckleberryGaylussacia dumosa
- Atlantic Poison-oakToxicodendron pubescens
- Confederate HuckleberryGaylussacia nana
- Southern BeeblossomGaura angustifolia
- YankeeweedEupatorium compositifolium
- Primrose-leaf VioletViola primulifolia
- Cream Wild IndigoBaptisia bracteata
- Cutleaf Ground-cherryPhysalis angulata
- Slender LespedezaLespedeza virginica
- Tall LespedezaLespedeza stuevei
- Asclepias obovataAsclepias obovata
- Sand Tick-trefoilDesmodium lineatum
- Pitchfork CrowngrassPaspalum bifidum
- Bog SpicebushLindera subcoriacea
- Southern Flat-top AsterDoellingeria sericocarpoides
- Trailing Fuzzy-beanStrophostyles helvola
- Schizachyrium tenerumSchizachyrium tenerum
- Spiked Hoary-peaTephrosia spicata
- Dune SandspurCenchrus tribuloides
- Heller's WitchgrassDichanthelium oligosanthes var. oligosanthes
- Slender CrabgrassDigitaria filiformis
- Dixie Whitetop AsterSericocarpus tortifolius
- Narrowleaf Whitetop AsterSericocarpus linifolius
- Slender Scratch-daisyCroptilon divaricatum
- Combleaf Yellow False FoxgloveAureolaria pectinata
- Bristly FlatsedgeCyperus hystricinus
- Plukenet's FlatsedgeCyperus plukenetii
- Feather-bristle BeaksedgeRhynchospora oligantha
- Fewflower BeaksedgeRhynchospora rariflora
- Harvey's BeaksedgeRhynchospora harveyi
- Carolina Yellow-eyed-grassXyris caroliniana
- Coral-beanErythrina herbacea
- Erect SnoutbeanRhynchosia tomentosa
- Harper's Yellow-eyed-grassXyris scabrifolia
- Plains LovegrassEragrostis intermedia
- Virginia False GromwellOnosmodium virginianum
- Racemed MilkwortSenega polygama
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.