Habitat in Virginia
Hardwood and oak flatwoods
Flat, poorly drained uplands and terraces with oaks, sweetgum and sometimes loblolly pine, wet in winter and dry in summer, but neither a floodplain nor a swamp. NatureServe
- Plants
- 9
- Birds
- 99
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Virginia. Not a planting list.
- Pin OakQuercus palustris
- Cat GreenbrierSmilax glauca
- Longs SedgeCarex longii
- Rafinesque's SeedboxLudwigia hirtella
- Wolf's SpikerushEleocharis wolfii
- Bushs MuhlyMuhlenbergia bushii
- Inland MuhlyMuhlenbergia glabrifloris
- Arkansas sedgeCarex arkansana
- PecanCarya illinoinensis
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 99
- Yellow-breasted ChatIcteria virens
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
- Yellow-rumped WarblerDendroica coronata
Sources
- NatureServe, ecological systems of the United States 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.