Habitat in Virginia
Coastal dunes and beaches
Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them. Schafale
- Plants
- 109
- Birds
- 147
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Virginia. Not a planting list.
- Puncture-vineTribulus terrestris
- Red SpiderlingBoerhavia coccinea
- SaltcedarTamarix ramosissima
- Sandhill AmaranthAmaranthus arenicola
- Seacoast AngelicaAngelica lucida
- Seashore False BindweedCalystegia soldanella
- Slender AmaranthAmaranthus viridis
- Southern BluetHoustonia micrantha
- St. Augustine GrassStenotaphrum secundatum
- Standing-cypressIpomopsis rubra
- Wild PoinsettiaEuphorbia cyathophora
- Japanese SedgeCarex kobomugi
- Beach VitexVitex rotundifolia
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 147
- Yellow-breasted ChatIcteria virens
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
- Yellow-rumped WarblerDendroica coronata
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)
- Core Banks dunes, June 2013, Jarek Tuszyński habitat picture
Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.