Habitat in Virginia
Forests and woodlands
Forest or woodland where the source does not say how moist or dry. Schafale
- Plants
- 809
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Virginia. Not a planting list.
Most characteristic plants of this habitat 809
Natives first, plants found in fewer other habitats first.
- Carolina BuckthornFrangula caroliniana
- Coral HoneysuckleLonicera sempervirens
- Eastern Prickly PearOpuntia cespitosa
- Eastern Gray BeardtonguePenstemon canescens
- Shinyleaf MeadowsweetSpiraea corymbosa
- Common SneezeweedHelenium autumnale
- Slender AsterEurybia compacta
- Slender LespedezaLespedeza virginica
- Bristly SarsaparillaAralia hispida
- Cercis canadensis var. canadensisCercis canadensis var. canadensis
- Glade Wild QuinineParthenium auriculatum
- Largebract Tick-trefoilDesmodium cuspidatum
- Nodding OnionAllium cernuum
- Sand Tick-trefoilDesmodium lineatum
- Smooth Tick-trefoilDesmodium laevigatum
- Velvety Tick-trefoilDesmodium viridiflorum
- Common Sensitive PlantChamaecrista nictitans var. nictitans
- James's SedgeCarex jamesii
- Bristle-leaf SedgeCarex eburnea
- Catesby's BindweedCalystegia catesbeiana
- Common HackberryCeltis occidentalis
- Eastern Woodland SedgeCarex blanda
- Flexuous White-edge SedgeCarex flexuosa
- Fuzzy Wuzzy SedgeCarex hirsutella
- Graceful SedgeCarex gracillima
- Midland SedgeCarex mesochorea
- Rezniceks SedgeCarex reznicekii
- Roan Mountain SedgeCarex roanensis
- Whitetinge SedgeCarex albicans var. albicans
- Yellowfruit SedgeCarex annectens
- SourwoodOxydendrum arboreum
- Spreading DogbaneApocynum androsaemifolium
- Warty SpurgeEuphorbia spathulata
- Water-plantain SpearwortRanunculus ambigens
- Kidneyleaf RosinweedSilphium compositum var. reniforme
- Smooth HydrangeaHydrangea arborescens
- Yellow PassionflowerPassiflora lutea
- American HazelnutCorylus americana
- Nettleleaf SageSalvia urticifolia
- Sword-leaf PhloxPhlox buckleyi
- Purple False FoxgloveAgalinis purpurea
- Cylindric-fruit SeedboxLudwigia glandulosa
- Scribner's WitchgrassDichanthelium scribnerianum
- Virginia White-haired LeatherflowerClematis coactilis
- Mountain PhloxPhlox ovata
- Palespike LobeliaLobelia spicata
- Standleys GoosefootChenopodium standleyanum
- Indian-tobaccoLobelia inflata
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
No wildlife recorded in this habitat in Virginia yet.
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.


































