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.

Beaked Hawkweed
Hieracium gronovii
Wildflower or fern. Native
Bigleaf Snowbell
Styrax grandifolius
Tree. Native
Delicate Rabbit-tobacco
Pseudognaphalium micradenium
Wildflower or fern. Native
Doubleform Snoutbean
Rhynchosia difformis
Vine. Native
Erect Snoutbean
Rhynchosia tomentosa
Wildflower or fern. Native
Heller's Rabbit-tobacco
Pseudognaphalium helleri
Wildflower or fern. Native
Lanceleaf Figwort
Scrophularia lanceolata
Wildflower or fern. Native
Narrowleaf Bluet
Houstonia tenuifolia
Wildflower or fern. Native
Rattlesnake Hawkweed
Hieracium venosum
Wildflower or fern. Native
Rough Hawkweed
Hieracium scabrum
Wildflower or fern. Native
Summer Bluet
Houstonia purpurea
Wildflower or fern. Native
Downy Agrimony
Agrimonia pubescens
Wildflower or fern. Native
Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
Grass or sedge. Native
Silky Oatgrass
Danthonia sericea
Grass or sedge. Native
Smallfruit Agrimony
Agrimonia microcarpa
Wildflower or fern. Native
Appalachian Bunchflower
Melanthium parviflorum
Wildflower or fern. Native
Forked Bluecurls
Trichostema dichotomum
Wildflower or fern. Native
Hairy Angelica
Angelica venenosa
Wildflower or fern. Native
Purple Lovegrass
Eragrostis spectabilis
Grass or sedge. Native
Slender Bunchflower
Melanthium hybridum
Wildflower or fern. Native
Carolina Wild-petunia
Ruellia caroliniensis
Wildflower or fern. Native
Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
Wildflower or fern. Native
Hairy Wild-petunia
Ruellia humilis
Wildflower or fern. Native
Pursh's Wild-petunia
Ruellia purshiana
Wildflower or fern. Native
Plantain-leaf Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
Wildflower or fern. Native
Yaupon Black-senna
Seymeria cassioides
Wildflower or fern. Native
Sidebeak Pencil-flower
Stylosanthes biflora
Wildflower or fern. Native
False Boneset
Brickellia eupatorioides
Shrub. Native
Hair-awn Muhly
Muhlenbergia capillaris
Grass or sedge. Native
Nimblewill
Muhlenbergia schreberi
Grass or sedge. Native
Yellow Pimpernel
Taenidia integerrima
Wildflower or fern. Native
Field Pussytoes
Antennaria neglecta
Wildflower or fern. Native
Howells Pussytoes
Antennaria howellii subsp. neodioica
Wildflower or fern. Native
Mullein Foxglove
Dasistoma macrophyllum
Wildflower or fern. Native
Perfoliate Bellwort
Uvularia perfoliata
Wildflower or fern. Native
Southern Dawnflower
Stylisma humistrata
Vine. Native
American Wintergreen
Pyrola americana
Shrub. Native
Clasping Venus's-looking-glass
Triodanis perfoliata
Wildflower or fern. Native
Leggetts Pinweed; Southern Hairy Pinweed
Lechea pulchella var. pulchella
Wildflower or fern. Native
Oblong-fruit Pinweed
Lechea racemulosa
Wildflower or fern. Native
Thyme-leaf Pinweed
Lechea minor
Wildflower or fern. Native
Waxflower Shinleaf
Pyrola elliptica
Shrub. Native
Woodland Ladies'-tresses
Spiranthes sylvatica
Native
Eastern Hay-scented Fern
Sitobolium punctilobulum
Wildflower or fern. Native
Green Pyrola, Green-flowered Wintergreen
Pyrola chlorantha
Native
Indian-pipe
Monotropa uniflora
Wildflower or fern. Native
Little Brown Jug
Hexastylis arifolia
Wildflower or fern. Native
Littlehead Nutrush
Scleria oligantha
Grass or sedge. Native

Wildlife

Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.

Birds 112

Song Sparrow
Melospiza melodia
Winter
Summer Tanager
Piranga rubra
Summer
Tufted Titmouse
Baeolophus bicolor
Year-round
Turkey Vulture
Cathartes aura
Year-round
White-breasted Nuthatch
Sitta carolinensis
Year-round
White-crowned Sparrow
Zonotrichia leucophrys
Winter
White-eyed Vireo
Vireo griseus
Year-round
White-throated Sparrow
Zonotrichia albicollis
Winter
White-winged Crossbill
Loxia leucoptera
Winter
Wild Turkey
Meleagris gallopavo
Year-round
Wood Thrush
Hylocichla mustelina
Summer
Worm-eating Warbler
Helmitheros vermivorum
Summer
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Sphyrapicus varius
Year-round
Yellow-breasted Chat
Icteria virens
Summer
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Dendroica coronata
Winter
Yellow-throated Warbler
Dendroica dominica
Year-round

Near water in this habitat 17

These use it only close to water, such as stream banks for nesting.

Acadian Flycatcher
Empidonax virescens
Summer, only within 500 m of water
Bank Swallow
Riparia riparia
Summer, only within 250 m of water
Belted Kingfisher
Megaceryle alcyon
Year-round, only within 60 m of water, for banks and other nest sites
Broad-winged Hawk
Buteo platypterus
Year-round, only within 250 m of water
Double-crested Cormorant
Phalacrocorax auritus
Year-round, only within 250 m of water
Hooded Merganser
Lophodytes cucullatus
Summer, only within 60 m of water
Louisiana Waterthrush
Seiurus motacilla
Summer, only within 60 m of water
Northern Parula
Parula americana
Summer, only within 120 m of water
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Stelgidopteryx serripennis
Year-round, only within 500 m of water
Osprey
Pandion haliaetus
Year-round, only within 1,000 m of water, for banks and other nest sites
Prothonotary Warbler
Protonotaria citrea
Summer, only within 120 m of water, for banks and other nest sites
Red-shouldered Hawk
Buteo lineatus
Year-round, only within 1,000 m of water
Spotted Sandpiper
Actitis macularius
Summer, only within 250 m of water
Swainson's Warbler
Limnothlypis swainsonii
Summer, only within 250 m of water
Tree Swallow
Tachycineta bicolor
Summer, only within 250 m of water
Veery
Catharus fuscescens
Summer, only within 250 m of water
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Coccyzus americanus
Summer, only within 120 m of water

Sources

Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.