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.
- Five-stamen ChickweedCerastium semidecandrum
- Flaveria trinerviaFlaveria trinervia
- Florida Hedge-nettleStachys floridana
- Flower-of-an-hourHibiscus trionum
- Fountain Miner's-lettuceMontia fontana
- Foxtail MilletSetaria italica
- Foxtail Prairie CloverDalea leporina
- Fragrant False GarlicNothoscordum gracile
- French RoseRosa gallica
- Fringed QuickweedGalinsoga quadriradiata
- Garden AsparagusAsparagus officinalis
- Garden ChervilAnthriscus cerefolium
- Garden CosmosCosmos bipinnatus
- Garden CressLepidium sativum
- Garden OrpineHylotelephium erythrostictum
- Gaura parvifloraOenothera curtiflora
- Gerards Hares EarBupleurum virgatum
- German IrisIris germanica
- Giant KnotweedReynoutria sachalinensis
- Giant ReedArundo donax
- Glaucous HawkweedPilosella floribunda
- Glossy BuckthornFrangula alnus
- Glossy PrivetLigustrum lucidum
- Goat WillowSalix caprea
- Golden Hop CloverTrifolium aureum
- Golden Rain-treeKoelreuteria paniculata
- Golden St. John's-wortHypericum frondosum
- Goldmoss StonecropSedum acre
- Gomphrena serrataGomphrena serrata
- Gray ChickweedCerastium brachypetalum
- Gray Field-speedwellVeronica polita
- Greater CelandineChelidonium majus
- Green CarpetweedMollugo verticillata
- Green Field-speedwellVeronica agrestis
- Green FlatsedgeCyperus virens
- Green FoxtailSetaria viridis var. viridis
- Greenstem ForsythiaForsythia viridissima
- Hair FescueFestuca filiformis
- Hairy BeggarticksBidens pilosa
- Hairy BittercressCardamine hirsuta
- Hairy ButtercupRanunculus sardous
- Hairy Cat's-earHypochaeris radicata
- Hairy Cluster-vineJacquemontia tamnifolia
- Hairy CrabgrassDigitaria sanguinalis
- Hairy NightshadeSolanum sarrachoides
- Hairypod CowpeaVigna luteola
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.