Habitat in North Carolina
Prairies and grasslands
Open, grass-dominated places kept open by fire, grazing or thin soil, from tallgrass prairie to Piedmont prairies. Schafale
- Plants
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Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in North Carolina. Not a planting list.
Most characteristic plants of this habitat 188
Natives first, plants found in fewer other habitats first.
- White Blue-eyed-grassSisyrinchium albidum
- Featherstem ClubmossLycopodiella prostrata
- Southern Bog ClubmossLycopodiella appressa
- Woolly RagwortPackera dubia
- Pin OakQuercus palustris
- Wild Potato-vineIpomoea pandurata
- Narrowleaf VervainVerbena simplex
- Purple MilkweedAsclepias purpurascens
- Roundhead LespedezaLespedeza capitata
- Florida PaspalumPaspalum floridanum
- Openfield SedgeCarex conoidea
- Smallfruit SeedboxLudwigia microcarpa
- Big BluestemAndropogon gerardi
- Prairie DockSilphium terebinthinaceum
- Waxyleaf Meadow-rueThalictrum amphibolum
- Shaggy CrabgrassDigitaria villosa
- Blue WitchgrassDichanthelium caerulescens
- Pale Indian-plantainArnoglossum atriplicifolium
- Canadian LousewortPedicularis canadensis
- Thorne's BeaksedgeRhynchospora thornei
- Lanceleaf BluetHoustonia lanceolata
- Gulf Coast SpikerushEleocharis cellulosa
- Coastal LovegrassEragrostis refracta
- Field MilkwortSenega sanguinea
- Wild HyacinthCamassia scilloides
- American BlueheartsBuchnera americana
- Florida BlueheartsBuchnera floridana
- Shortleaf Skeleton-grassGymnopogon brevifolius
- Foxtail ClubmossLycopodiella alopecuroides
- Dwarf Upland WillowSalix occidentalis
- Swamp ThistleCirsium muticum
- Southern Winged LoosestrifeLythrum lanceolatum
- Common YuccaYucca filamentosa
- Scarlet Indian-paintbrushCastilleja coccinea
- Eastern Shooting-starPrimula meadia
- Chapman's RedtopTridens chapmanii
- Hairy Wild-petuniaRuellia humilis
- Hairy AngelicaAngelica venenosa
- Hair-awn MuhlyMuhlenbergia capillaris
- Low NutrushScleria verticillata
- Roughfruit ScaleseedSpermolepis divaricata
- Wrinkled JointgrassMnesithea rugosa
- American PersimmonDiospyros virginiana
- Whorled MilkweedAsclepias verticillata
- Climbing DogbaneThyrsanthella difformis
- SupplejackBerchemia scandens
- Carolina Tassel-rueTrautvetteria caroliniensis
- Cat GreenbrierSmilax glauca
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
- 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)
- Grand Prairie, Coosa Valley Prairies, Floyd County, Alan M. Cressler / U.S. Geological Survey habitat picture
Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.