Habitat in Virginia
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots. Schafale
- Plants
- 1283
- Birds
- 151
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Virginia. Not a planting list.
- HoneyvineCynanchum laeve
- Rattlesnake HawkweedHieracium venosum
- Rough HawkweedHieracium scabrum
- Summer BluetHoustonia purpurea
- Thymeleaf BluetHoustonia serpyllifolia
- Tiny BluetHoustonia pusilla
- Blunt Spike RushEleocharis obtusa
- Cone-cup SpikerushEleocharis tuberculosa
- Horsetail SpikerushEleocharis equisetoides
- Needle SpikerushEleocharis acicularis
- Common Threeseed MercuryAcalypha rhomboidea
- Silky OatgrassDanthonia sericea
- Slender Threeseed MercuryAcalypha gracilens
- Virginia Threeseed MercuryAcalypha virginica
- Wild BasilClinopodium vulgare
- Big CarpetgrassAxonopus furcatus
- Bigtop LovegrassEragrostis hirsuta
- Chapman's RedtopTridens chapmanii
- Common CarpetgrassAxonopus fissifolius
- Forked BluecurlsTrichostema dichotomum
- Lace LovegrassEragrostis capillaris
- Purple LovegrassEragrostis spectabilis
- Silvery CudweedGamochaeta argyrinea
- Spoonleaf Purple EverlastingGamochaeta purpurea
- Tall RedtopTridens flavus
- Virginia Springbeauty; Virginia Spring BeautyClaytonia virginica var. virginica
- Composite DropseedSporobolus compositus var. compositus
- Hairy Wild-petuniaRuellia humilis
- Poverty DropseedSporobolus vaginiflorus
- Smooth Wild-petuniaRuellia strepens
- Curtiss's MilkwortSenega curtissii
- Cutleaf Water-milfoilMyriophyllum pinnatum
- Loose MilkwortSenega ambigua
- Orange MilkwortSenega lutea
- Pink MilkwortSenega incarnata
- Royal FernOsmunda spectabilis
- Variable-leaf Water-milfoilMyriophyllum heterophyllum
- Bog Yellow-eyed-grassXyris difformis
- Plantain-leaf PussytoesAntennaria plantaginifolia
- PoorjoeHexasepalum teres
- Richard's Yellow-eyed-grassXyris jupicai
- Slender Yellow-eyed-grassXyris torta
- Tall Yellow-eyed-grassXyris platylepis
- Canada FrostweedCrocanthemum canadense
- Large Solomons Seal; King Solomons SealPolygonatum biflorum var. commutatum
- Low FrostweedCrocanthemum propinquum
- Ten-petal AnemoneAnemone berlandieri
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 116
- Snowy OwlBubo scandiacus
- Song SparrowMelospiza melodia
- Summer TanagerPiranga rubra
- Thayer's GullLarus thayeri
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- Tufted TitmouseBaeolophus bicolor
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- Upland SandpiperBartramia longicauda
- Vesper SparrowPooecetes gramineus
- White-crowned SparrowZonotrichia leucophrys
- White-eyed VireoVireo griseus
- White-throated SparrowZonotrichia albicollis
- Wild TurkeyMeleagris gallopavo
- Wilson's WarblerWilsonia pusilla
- Yellow RailCoturnicops noveboracensis
- Yellow-bellied SapsuckerSphyrapicus varius
- Yellow-breasted ChatIcteria virens
- Yellow-rumped WarblerDendroica coronata
- Yellow-throated VireoVireo flavifrons
- Yellow-throated WarblerDendroica dominica
Near water in this habitat 35
These use it only close to water, such as stream banks for nesting.
- American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American WigeonAnas americana
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Black-bellied PloverPluvialis squatarola
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- BrantBranta bernicla
- Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterus
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- DunlinCalidris alpina
- Glossy IbisPlegadis falcinellus
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Least TernSternula antillarum
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Northern ParulaParula americana
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- Piping PloverCharadrius melodus
- Red-shouldered HawkButeo lineatus
- Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
- Rusty BlackbirdEuphagus carolinus
- Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatus
- SoraPorzana carolina
- Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
- Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopus
- Tundra SwanCygnus columbianus
- Wilson's SnipeGallinago delicata
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
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)
Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.