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.
- Coastal Plain WillowSalix caroliniana
- CranberryVaccinium macrocarpon
- Solidago sempervirensSolidago sempervirens
- Solidago sempervirens var. mexicanaSolidago mexicana
- Maritime ThoroughwortEupatorium maritimum
- Early Whitetop FleabaneErigeron vernus
- Southern HorseweedErigeron pusillus
- Late-flowering ThoroughwortEupatorium serotinum
- Lanceleaf VioletViola lanceolata
- Seabeach Evening-primroseOenothera humifusa
- Seabeach KnotweedPolygonum glaucum
- CamphorweedHeterotheca subaxillaris
- Common WaxmyrtleMorella cerifera
- Cottony Golden-asterChrysopsis gossypina
- Dune Ground-cherryPhysalis walteri
- Northern BayberryMorella pensylvanica
- Northern St. John's-wortHypericum boreale
- Seabeach AmaranthAmaranthus pumilus
- Sea-beach SedgeCarex silicea
- Swamp CottonwoodPopulus heterophylla
- Larger Blue Flag, Northern Blue FlagIris versicolor
- Maritime PokeweedPhytolacca americana var. rigida
- KnotgrassPaspalum distichum
- Marsh Straw SedgeCarex hormathodes
- Northern Seaside SpurgeEuphorbia polygonifolia
- Southern Seaside SpurgeEuphorbia bombensis
- Trailing Fuzzy-beanStrophostyles helvola
- Hercules-clubZanthoxylum clava-herculis
- Aloe YuccaYucca aloifolia
- Mound-lily YuccaYucca gloriosa
- Winged PigweedDysphania atriplicifolia
- Globefruit SeedboxLudwigia sphaerocarpa
- Long Beach SeedboxLudwigia brevipes
- Panicum amarum var. amarulumPanicum amarulum
- Winged SeedboxLudwigia alata
- Coastal Virgin's-bowerClematis catesbyana
- Common YuccaYucca filamentosa
- Dune BluestemSchizachyrium littorale
- Maritime BluestemAnatherum tenuispatheum
- Panicum virgatum var. virgatumPanicum virgatum var. virgatum
- Bighead RushJuncus megacephalus
- Bog RushJuncus biflorus
- Brownfruit RushJuncus pelocarpus
- Shaggy CrabgrassDigitaria villosa
- Dune SandspurCenchrus tribuloides
- Lanceleaf FrogfruitPhyla lanceolata
- Largeleaf PennywortHydrocotyle bonariensis
- Giant BristlegrassSetaria magna
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 147
- GadwallAnas strepera
- Glaucous GullLarus hyperboreus
- Glossy IbisPlegadis falcinellus
- Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Gull-billed TernGelochelidon nilotica
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- Horned GrebePodiceps auritus
- Horned LarkEremophila alpestris
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- KilldeerCharadrius vociferus
- King RailRallus elegans
- Lapland LongspurCalcarius lapponicus
- Laughing GullLeucophaeus atricilla
- Least BitternIxobrychus exilis
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Least TernSternula antillarum
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
- Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Little GullHydrocoloeus minutus
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Marbled GodwitLimosa fedoa
- Marsh WrenCistothorus palustris
- MerlinFalco columbarius
- Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
- Nelson's Sharp-tailed SparrowAmmodramus nelsoni
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- Northern WaterthrushSeiurus noveboracensis
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Palm WarblerDendroica palmarum
- Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
- Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podiceps
- Pine SiskinCarduelis pinus
- Piping PloverCharadrius melodus
- Prairie WarblerDendroica discolor
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.