Habitat in North Carolina
Meadows
Open, grassy or flowery ground that is not wet, such as mountain meadows; wet meadows are separate. 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 57
Natives first, plants found in fewer other habitats first.
- Elegant WitchgrassDichanthelium mundum
- Eaton's WitchgrassDichanthelium spretum
- Blackfruit SpikerushEleocharis melanocarpa
- Yellow AvensGeum aleppicum
- Yellow Ladies'-tressesSpiranthes ochroleuca
- Appalachian Rose-gentianSabatia capitata
- Slender WedgescaleSphenopholis intermedia
- Appalachian Small Spreading PogoniaCleistesiopsis bifaria
- Early GoldenrodSolidago juncea
- Eastern Smooth BeardtonguePenstemon laevigatus
- Eastern YarrowAchillea gracilis
- Fowl BluegrassPoa palustris
- Bush's SedgeCarex bushii
- Roanoke WitchgrassDichanthelium roanokense
- Shortleaf WitchgrassDichanthelium curtifolium
- White-edge WitchgrassDichanthelium tenue
- Palespike LobeliaLobelia spicata
- Indian-tobaccoLobelia inflata
- Roundseed WitchgrassDichanthelium sphaerocarpon
- Wright's WitchgrassDichanthelium wrightianum
- Carolina False-dandelionPyrrhopappus carolinianus
- Winter BentgrassAgrostis hyemalis
- Bog WillowherbEpilobium leptophyllum
- Narrow-panicle RushJuncus tweedyi
- Plain GentianGentiana flavida
- Purple Fringeless OrchidPlatanthera peramoena
- Downy WoodmintBlephilia ciliata
- Narrowleaf Blue-eyed-grassSisyrinchium angustifolium
- Eastern Blue-eyed-grassSisyrinchium atlanticum
- Leathery GrapefernSceptridium multifidum
- Northern SweetgrassHierochloe hirta
- Mid-Atlantic Flat-top GoldenrodEuthamia floribunda
- CleaversGalium aparine
- Wiry PanicgrassPanicum flexile
- Yellow-fringed OrchidPlatanthera ciliaris
- Potato Dwarf-dandelionKrigia dandelion
- Blue VervainVerbena hastata
- Purple MilkweedAsclepias purpurascens
- Openfield SedgeCarex conoidea
- Tussock SedgeCarex stricta
- Stalked PanicgrassColeataenia pulchra
- Pale Indian-plantainArnoglossum atriplicifolium
- Fly-poisonAmianthium muscitoxicum
- Swamp ThistleCirsium muticum
- Northern Coastal VioletViola brittoniana
- Cow-parsnipHeracleum maximum
- Scarlet Indian-paintbrushCastilleja coccinea
- Hay SedgeCarex argyrantha
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)
- Big Meadows in Fall (21402052923), Katy Cain / Shenandoah National Park (NPS) habitat picture
Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.
























