Habitat in Virginia
Sandhills
Dry, deep-sand ridges with longleaf pine and turkey oak, kept open by fire. Schafale
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Plants
Also found in this habitat in Virginia: plants whose sourced habitat text names it. Not a planting list.
- SparkleberryVaccinium arboreum
- Small Black BlueberryVaccinium tenellum
- Common Clasping AsterSymphyotrichum patens var. patens
- Elliott's GoldenrodSolidago latissimifolia
- InkberryIlex glabra
- Late GoldenrodSolidago tarda
- Southern Roughleaf GoldenrodSolidago salicina
- Sweet GoldenrodSolidago odora
- Twistleaf GoldenrodSolidago tortifolia
- Woolly RagwortPackera tomentosa
- Bluejack OakQuercus incana
- Coastal Plain Lettuce; Grassleaf LettuceLactuca graminifolia var. graminifolia
- Darlington OakQuercus hemisphaerica
- Sandhill ThistleCirsium repandum
- Turkey OakQuercus laevis
- Poison SumacToxicodendron vernix
- Sand Post OakQuercus margarettae
- Lesser SnakerootAgeratina aromatica
- Mountain LaurelKalmia latifolia
- Dwarf HuckleberryGaylussacia dumosa
- Wild Potato-vineIpomoea pandurata
- Atlantic Poison-oakToxicodendron pubescens
- Michaux's SumacRhus michauxii
- Wedgeleaf ThoroughwortEupatorium linearifolium
- Primrose-leaf VioletViola primulifolia
- Southern Coastal VioletViola septemloba
- Woolly Dwarf HawthornCrataegus pexa
- Gray-hairy Wild IndigoBaptisia cinerea
- Rose VervainGlandularia canadensis
- Yellow Wild IndigoBaptisia tinctoria
- American PersimmonDiospyros virginiana
- Longleaf PinePinus palustris
- Carolina SilkgrassPityopsis aspera var. adenolepis
- Shortleaf PinePinus echinata
- Cottony Golden-asterChrysopsis gossypina
- Cutleaf Ground-cherryPhysalis angulata
- Maryland Golden-asterChrysopsis mariana
- Southern BayberryMorella caroliniensis
- Galactia brachypodaGalactia brachypoda
- Low St. John's-wortHypericum stragulum
- Eustis Lake BeardtonguePenstemon australis
- Whorled MilkweedAsclepias verticillata
- Dwarf Bayberry, Dwarf Wax MyrtleMorella pusilla
- Slender LespedezaLespedeza virginica
- Lespedeza hirta var. curtissiiLespedeza hirta var. curtissii
- Lloyd's St. John's-wortHypericum lloydii
- Tall LespedezaLespedeza stuevei
Wildlife
Also found in this habitat: wildlife whose USGS habitat models (2001 land cover) include it, where its range includes Virginia. Not sighting records, and 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
- FloraQuest: Carolinas, Georgia (Southeastern Flora Team), 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.