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
- 188
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.
- Common GreenbrierSmilax rotundifolia
- American SnoutbeanRhynchosia americana
- ChristmasberryCrossopetalum ilicifolium
- Annual Blue-eyed-grassSisyrinchium micranthum
- Bicknell's SedgeCarex opaca
- Bristly ScaleseedSpermolepis echinata
- Common PepperweedLepidium densiflorum
- Heavy SedgeCarex gravida
- Hoary VervainVerbena stricta
- Lindheimer's BeeblossomOenothera lindheimeri
- Pink Evening-primroseOenothera speciosa
- Showy Evening-primroseOenothera grandis
- Slender VervainVerbena rigida
- Slickseed Fuzzy-beanStrophostyles leiosperma
- Slim-bristle SandspurCenchrus brownii
- Smut-grassSporobolus indicus
- Upright Prairie ConeflowerRatibida columnifera
- White SagebrushArtemisia ludoviciana
- Woolly PlantainPlantago patagonica
- Ashy SunflowerHelianthus mollis
- Long-stem Adder's-tongueOphioglossum petiolatum
- Pale Purple ConeflowerEchinacea pallida
- Plains LovegrassEragrostis intermedia
- Prairie Rose-gentianSabatia campestris
- Rough False PennyroyalHedeoma hispida
- Sawtooth SunflowerHelianthus grosseserratus
- Silverleaf NightshadeSolanum elaeagnifolium
- Soft Golden-asterBradburia pilosa
- Texas BluegrassPoa arachnifera
- Texas VervainVerbena halei
- Wavyleaf Purple ConeflowerEchinacea simulata
- Wedgeleaf DrabaTomostima cuneifolia
- Wild Four-o'clockMirabilis nyctaginea
- Woolly CrotonCroton capitatus
- Wright's PlantainPlantago wrightiana
- Butler's Sand-parsleyAmmoselinum butleri
- David's SpurgeEuphorbia davidii
- Hairy Four-o'clockMirabilis albida
- Illinois BundleflowerDesmanthus illinoensis
- Red River ScaleseedSpermolepis inermis
- Southern SedgeCarex austrina
- Sweet ConeflowerRudbeckia subtomentosa
- Climbing RoseRosa setigera
- Osage-orangeMaclura pomifera
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.