Habitat in Virginia
Dry forests and woodlands
Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine. Schafale
- Plants
- 230
- Birds
- 129
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Virginia. Not a planting list.
- Devil's-walkingstickAralia spinosa
- Cat GreenbrierSmilax glauca
- Fraser MagnoliaMagnolia fraseri
- Shinyleaf MeadowsweetSpiraea corymbosa
- White Wood-asterEurybia divaricata
- Cercis canadensis var. canadensisCercis canadensis var. canadensis
- CoralberrySymphoricarpos orbiculatus
- Drummond's St. John's-wortHypericum drummondii
- Lloyd's St. John's-wortHypericum lloydii
- Tall LespedezaLespedeza stuevei
- American Basswood; American LindenTilia americana var. heterophylla
- Cream Tick-trefoilDesmodium ochroleucum
- Naked Tick-trefoilHylodesmum nudiflorum
- Pine-barren Tick-trefoilDesmodium strictum
- Prostrate Tick-trefoilDesmodium rotundifolium
- Sand Tick-trefoilDesmodium lineatum
- Sessileleaf Tick-trefoilDesmodium sessilifolium
- Stiff Tick-trefoilDesmodium obtusum
- Carolina Prairie-trefoilAcmispon helleri
- Clasping MilkweedAsclepias amplexicaulis
- Red SprucePicea rubens
- American Hop-hornbeamOstrya virginiana
- Appalachian SedgeCarex appalachica
- Black-edge SedgeCarex nigromarginata
- Fibrous-root SedgeCarex communis
- Fuzzy Wuzzy SedgeCarex hirsutella
- Hay SedgeCarex argyrantha
- Hitchcock's SedgeCarex hitchcockiana
- Leavenworth's SedgeCarex leavenworthii
- Manhart's SedgeCarex manhartii
- Midland SedgeCarex mesochorea
- Oval-leaf SedgeCarex cephalophora
- Pennsylvania SedgeCarex pensylvanica
- Reflexed SedgeCarex retroflexa
- Rezniceks SedgeCarex reznicekii
- Shortbeak SedgeCarex brevior
- Slender Woodland SedgeCarex digitalis var. digitalis
- Slender Woodland SedgeCarex digitalis var. macropoda
- Southern Whitetinge SedgeCarex albicans var. australis
- Whitetinge SedgeCarex albicans var. albicans
- Violet WoodsorrelOxalis violacea
- Bristly ButtercupRanunculus hispidus
- Maryland SennaSenna marilandica
- Rock ButtercupRanunculus micranthus
- Southeastern Flowering SpurgeEuphorbia pubentissima
- Kidney Leaf RosinweedSilphium compositum var. compositum
- Kidneyleaf RosinweedSilphium compositum var. reniforme
- Littleleaf Sensitive-briarMimosa microphylla
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 112
- Song SparrowMelospiza melodia
- Summer TanagerPiranga rubra
- Tufted TitmouseBaeolophus bicolor
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- White-breasted NuthatchSitta carolinensis
- White-crowned SparrowZonotrichia leucophrys
- White-eyed VireoVireo griseus
- White-throated SparrowZonotrichia albicollis
- White-winged CrossbillLoxia leucoptera
- Wild TurkeyMeleagris gallopavo
- Wood ThrushHylocichla mustelina
- Worm-eating WarblerHelmitheros vermivorum
- Yellow-bellied SapsuckerSphyrapicus varius
- Yellow-breasted ChatIcteria virens
- Yellow-rumped WarblerDendroica coronata
- Yellow-throated WarblerDendroica dominica
Near water in this habitat 17
These use it only close to water, such as stream banks for nesting.
- Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterus
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- Louisiana WaterthrushSeiurus motacilla
- Northern ParulaParula americana
- Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Prothonotary WarblerProtonotaria citrea
- Red-shouldered HawkButeo lineatus
- Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
- Swainson's WarblerLimnothlypis swainsonii
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- VeeryCatharus fuscescens
- Yellow-billed CuckooCoccyzus americanus
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.