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.
- Coastal Plain Lettuce; Grassleaf LettuceLactuca graminifolia var. graminifolia
- Common HorseweedErigeron canadensis
- Nuttall's ThistleCirsium nuttallii
- Tall Blue LettuceLactuca biennis
- Yellow Thistle; Bull Thistle; Horrid ThistleCirsium horridulum var. horridulum
- Devil's BeggarticksBidens frondosa
- Scarlet HawthornCrataegus coccinea
- Annual FleabaneErigeron annuus
- Common Rough FleabaneErigeron strigosus var. strigosus
- Hairy FleabaneErigeron bonariensis
- Hairy Fleabane; Robins PlantainErigeron pulchellus var. pulchellus
- Philadelphia FleabaneErigeron philadelphicus var. philadelphicus
- Southern HorseweedErigeron pusillus
- Spanish-needlesBidens bipinnata
- Staghorn SumacRhus typhina
- Awnless BeggarticksBidens polylepis
- Nodding BeggarticksBidens cernua
- Purplestem BeggarticksBidens connata
- Silver MapleAcer saccharinum
- Strawstem BeggarticksBidens comosa
- Tall BeggarticksBidens vulgata
- Tall Flat Top AsterDoellingeria umbellata var. umbellata
- Hollow Joe-pye-weedEutrochium fistulosum
- Late-flowering ThoroughwortEupatorium serotinum
- Small's RagwortPackera anonyma
- White SnakerootAgeratina altissima
- Blue MistflowerConoclinium coelestinum
- Dodge's HawthornCrataegus dodgei
- Eastern HawthornCrataegus macrosperma
- Gattingers HawthornCrataegus pruinosa var. gattingeri
- One-flowered HawthornCrataegus uniflora
- Rochester HawthornCrataegus beata
- Schuette's HawthornCrataegus schuettei
- Sunny HawthornCrataegus aprica
- Tall ThoroughwortEupatorium altissimum
- Washington HawthornCrataegus phaenopyrum
- Wild Potato-vineIpomoea pandurata
- Dog-fennelEupatorium capillifolium
- Fragrant Sumac; Squawbush; Squaw BushRhus aromatica var. aromatica
- Hairy ThoroughwortEupatorium pubescens
- Hyssopleaf ThoroughwortEupatorium hyssopifolium
- Roundleaf ThoroughwortEupatorium rotundifolium
- Torreys ThoroughwortEupatorium torreyanum
- White Morning-gloryIpomoea lacunosa
- Wild StrawberryFragaria virginiana
- WingstemVerbesina alternifolia
- Yellow CrownbeardVerbesina occidentalis
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.