Habitat in Virginia
Moderately dry forests
Forests between dry and moist, often oak-hickory on slopes. Schafale
- Plants
- 23
- Birds
- 107
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Virginia. Not a planting list.
- Alternate-leaf DogwoodSwida alternifolia
- Smooth Heart Leaf AsterSymphyotrichum lowrieanum
- Woodland LettuceLactuca floridana
- Rusty BlackhawViburnum rufidulum
- Rough BonesetEupatorium pilosum
- Cornel-leaf AsterDoellingeria infirma
- Downy ArrowwoodViburnum rafinesqueanum
- Common GreenbrierSmilax rotundifolia
- Carolina SedgeCarex caroliniana
- Hay SedgeCarex argyrantha
- Inflated Narrow Leaf SedgeCarex grisea
- Rosy SedgeCarex rosea
- Summer SedgeCarex aestivalis
- Woodland BluegrassPoa sylvestris
- Yellow PimpernelTaenidia integerrima
- Mullein FoxgloveDasistoma macrophyllum
- SweetshrubCalycanthus floridus
- Canadian Black Snake RootSanicula canadensis var. canadensis
- Small's Black-snakerootSanicula smallii
- Small Whorled PogoniaIsotria medeoloides
- Bentley's CoralrootCorallorhiza bentleyi
- Broadleaf HelleborineEpipactis helleborine
- Sweet CherryPrunus avium
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 96
- Evening GrosbeakCoccothraustes vespertinus
- Fox SparrowPasserella iliaca
- Golden-crowned KingletRegulus satrapa
- Golden-winged WarblerVermivora chrysoptera
- Gray CatbirdDumetella carolinensis
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Hairy WoodpeckerPicoides villosus
- Hermit ThrushCatharus guttatus
- Hooded WarblerWilsonia citrina
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- Kentucky WarblerOporornis formosus
- Least FlycatcherEmpidonax minimus
- Long-eared OwlAsio otus
- Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
- Northern Saw-whet OwlAegolius acadicus
- Orange-crowned WarblerVermivora celata
- OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
- Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatus
- Pine SiskinCarduelis pinus
- Prairie WarblerDendroica discolor
- Purple FinchCarpodacus purpureus
- Red-bellied WoodpeckerMelanerpes carolinus
- Red-breasted NuthatchSitta canadensis
- Red-headed WoodpeckerMelanerpes erythrocephalus
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
- Rose-breasted GrosbeakPheucticus ludovicianus
- Ruby-crowned KingletRegulus calendula
- Ruby-throated HummingbirdArchilochus colubris
- Ruffed GrouseBonasa umbellus
- Scarlet TanagerPiranga olivacea
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- Summer TanagerPiranga rubra
- Tufted TitmouseBaeolophus bicolor
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- White-breasted NuthatchSitta carolinensis
- White-eyed VireoVireo griseus
- White-throated SparrowZonotrichia albicollis
- Wild TurkeyMeleagris gallopavo
- Wood ThrushHylocichla mustelina
- Worm-eating WarblerHelmitheros vermivorum
- Yellow-bellied SapsuckerSphyrapicus varius
- Yellow-breasted ChatIcteria virens
- Yellow-rumped WarblerDendroica coronata
Near water in this habitat 11
These use it only close to water, such as stream banks for nesting.
- Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterus
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
- Swainson's WarblerLimnothlypis swainsonii
- 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.