West Indian Meadow-beauty

Shallow ponds in Coastal Plain depressions, such as limesinks and the ponds in some Carolina bays, that rise and fall with the seasons.

Open, wet, grassy or sedgy ground that is not a bog.

Forested wetlands with standing water much of the year, such as cypress and gum swamps.

Dense, evergreen groves of live oak, magnolia and other hardwoods in the southern Coastal Plain, from dry oak domes to wet hydric hammocks and south Florida's tropical hammocks; salt-shaped maritime hammocks are maritime forests.

Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.

Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.

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