Habitat in North Carolina
Oak savannas and openings
Open-grown oaks over grass and wildflowers, kept open by fire or thin soil; not the treeless prairies or the Coastal Plain's pine savannas. Weakley
- Plants
- 13
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in North Carolina. Not a planting list.
Most characteristic plants of this habitat 13
Natives first, plants found in fewer other habitats first.
- Thinleaf SunflowerHelianthus decapetalus
- Eastern Straw SedgeCarex straminea
- New Jersey MuhlyMuhlenbergia torreyana
- Littlehip HawthornCrataegus spathulata
- Eastern Prairie Blue Wild IndigoBaptisia aberrans
- Ozark CrownbeardVerbesina helianthoides
- Hyssopleaf ThoroughwortEupatorium hyssopifolium
- Schweinitz's SunflowerHelianthus schweinitzii
- Southern GoldenrodSolidago austrina
- Early ButtercupRanunculus fascicularis
- Wild HyacinthCamassia scilloides
- Hairy AngelicaAngelica venenosa
- Longspike FluffgrassTridens strictus
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in North Carolina. Shared habitat, not food.
No wildlife recorded in this habitat in North Carolina yet.
Sources
- Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition, habitat wording 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)
- Catoosa Savanna, 11 July 2012, Mason Brock (Masebrock) habitat picture
Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.