Habitat in Virginia
Prairies and grasslands
Open, grass-dominated places kept open by fire, grazing or thin soil, from tallgrass prairie to Piedmont prairies. Schafale
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Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Virginia. Not a planting list.
- Carolina Prairie-trefoilAcmispon helleri
- Clasping MilkweedAsclepias amplexicaulis
- Blue SedgeCarex glaucodea
- Bush's SedgeCarex bushii
- Common NinebarkPhysocarpus opulifolius var. opulifolius
- Curtis's CrowngrassPaspalum praecox var. curtisianum
- Florida PaspalumPaspalum floridanum
- Greater Straw SedgeCarex normalis
- Heavy SedgeCarex gravida
- Mead's SedgeCarex meadii
- Openfield SedgeCarex conoidea
- Pale SedgeCarex pallescens
- Rigid SedgeCarex tetanica
- Shortbeak SedgeCarex brevior
- Southern Winged LoosestrifeLythrum lanceolatum
- Woodland BluegrassPoa sylvestris
- Early ButtercupRanunculus fascicularis
- Prairie DockSilphium terebinthinaceum
- Spreading DogbaneApocynum androsaemifolium
- Warty SpurgeEuphorbia spathulata
- Earleaf False FoxgloveAgalinis auriculata
- Appalachian Blazing-starLiatris squarrulosa
- Colicroot; Loosescale Gayfeather; Scaly Blazing Star; Colic Root; Loosescale Gay Feather; Scaly BlazingstarLiatris squarrosa var. squarrosa
- Dense Blazing-starLiatris spicata
- Dwarf LarkspurDelphinium tricorne
- Rough Blazing-starLiatris aspera
- Big BluestemAndropogon gerardii
- Four Flower LoosestrifeSteironema quadriflorum
- Waxyleaf Meadow-rueThalictrum amphibolum
- Bluntleaf False FoxgloveAgalinis obtusifolia
- Scribner's WitchgrassDichanthelium scribnerianum
- Common Golden-AlexandersZizia aurea
- Common YuccaYucca filamentosa
- Dune BluestemSchizachyrium littorale
- Maritime BluestemAnatherum tenuispatheum
- Blue WitchgrassDichanthelium caerulescens
- Panicum virgatum var. virgatumPanicum virgatum var. virgatum
- Ringed WitchgrassDichanthelium annulum
- Starved WitchgrassDichanthelium depauperatum
- White Hair WitchgrassDichanthelium villosissimum var. villosissimum
- Bighead RushJuncus megacephalus
- Pale Indian-plantainArnoglossum atriplicifolium
- Shaggy CrabgrassDigitaria villosa
- Rattlesnake Master; Button EryngoEryngium yuccifolium var. yuccifolium
- Virginia Mountain-mintPycnanthemum virginianum
- Yellow IndiangrassSorghastrum nutans
- Nodding Rattlesnake-rootNabalus crepidineus
- Manyflower Marsh-pennywortHydrocotyle umbellata
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)
- Barrens native plants returning after prescribed fire, September 2020, NPS Photo / Rick Olson habitat picture
Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.