Habitat in Mississippi
Sandhills
Dry, deep-sand ridges with longleaf pine and turkey oak, kept open by fire. Schafale
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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.
- Texas PipewortEriocaulon texense
- Pineland Scaly-pinkStipulicida setacea
- Yellow ButterwortPinguicula lutea
- Gratiola hispidaGratiola hispida
- Woolly RagwortPackera tomentosa
- Wild Potato-vineIpomoea pandurata
- Eustis Lake BeardtonguePenstemon australis
- Maryland Golden-asterChrysopsis mariana
- Stiff Tick-trefoilDesmodium obtusum
- Red MilkweedAsclepias rubra
- Big BluestemAndropogon gerardi
- Common SweetleafSymplocos tinctoria
- Globe FlatsedgeCyperus echinatus
- Fringed Yellow-eyed-grassXyris fimbriata
- Beaked HawkweedHieracium gronovii
- Forked BluecurlsTrichostema dichotomum
- SweetshrubCalycanthus floridus
- Little Ladies'-tressesSpiranthes tuberosa
- Thyme-leaf PinweedLechea minor
- Shortleaf Skeleton-grassGymnopogon brevifolius
- Pineland SquareheadTetragonotheca helianthoides
- Juniper-leafPolypremum procumbens
- Standing-cypressIpomopsis rubra
- Fly-poisonAmianthium muscitoxicum
- Thread Stalk BeeblossomGaura filipes
- Florida PaspalumPaspalum floridanum
- Common YuccaYucca filamentosa
- Shaggy CrabgrassDigitaria villosa
- Chapman's RedtopTridens flavus var. chapmanii
- Hair-awn MuhlyMuhlenbergia capillaris
- Roughfruit ScaleseedSpermolepis divaricata
- Dark Indigo BushAmorpha nitens
- American PersimmonDiospyros virginiana
- Whorled MilkweedAsclepias verticillata
- Stiff AsterIonactis linariifolia
- Longspike FluffgrassTridens strictus
- Sidebeak Pencil-flowerStylosanthes biflora
- Twig-rushCladium mariscoides
- Hairy AngelicaAngelica venenosa
- White ColicrootAletris farinosa
- Carolina VervainStylodon carneus
- Low St. John's-wortHypericum hypericoides subsp. multicaule
- Indigofera suffruticosaIndigofera suffruticosa
- Scarlet Sage; Blood SageSalvia coccinea
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.