Habitat in Virginia
Sandhills
Dry, deep-sand ridges with longleaf pine and turkey oak, kept open by fire. Schafale
- Plants
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Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Virginia. Not a planting list.
- Fernald's Tick-trefoilDesmodium fernaldii
- Pine-barren Tick-trefoilDesmodium strictum
- Sand Tick-trefoilDesmodium lineatum
- Stiff Tick-trefoilDesmodium obtusum
- Clasping MilkweedAsclepias amplexicaulis
- Maritime PokeweedPhytolacca americana var. rigida
- Red MilkweedAsclepias rubra
- Florida PaspalumPaspalum floridanum
- Pitchfork CrowngrassPaspalum bifidum
- SourwoodOxydendrum arboreum
- American IpecacEuphorbia ipecacuanhae
- Coastal Sand SpurgeEuphorbia exserta
- Southeastern Flowering SpurgeEuphorbia pubentissima
- Trailing Fuzzy-beanStrophostyles helvola
- Iris verna var. vernaIris verna var. verna
- Kidney Leaf RosinweedSilphium compositum var. compositum
- Littleleaf Sensitive-briarMimosa microphylla
- Upland Dwarf IrisIris verna var. smalliana
- Tufted Yellow WoodsorrelOxalis colorea
- Appalachian Blazing-starLiatris squarrulosa
- Grass Leaf GayfeatherLiatris pilosa
- Big BluestemAndropogon gerardii
- Tenlobe False FoxgloveAgalinis decemloba
- Threadleaf False FoxgloveAgalinis setacea
- Panicum amarum var. amarulumPanicum amarulum
- White Leaf Leather FlowerClematis glaucophylla
- Grassleaf RoselingCuthbertia graminea
- Stiff AsterIonactis linariifolia
- Common YuccaYucca filamentosa
- Heller's WitchgrassDichanthelium oligosanthes
- Shaggy CrabgrassDigitaria villosa
- Dune SandspurCenchrus tribuloides
- Goat's-rueTephrosia virginiana
- Narrowleaf Whitetop AsterSericocarpus linifolius
- Spiked Hoary-peaTephrosia spicata
- Toothed Whitetop AsterSericocarpus asteroides
- Sweet-fernComptonia peregrina
- Common SweetleafSymplocos tinctoria
- Sandhills LilyLilium pyrophilum
- Slender Scratch-daisyCroptilon divaricatum
- Coastal Plain PuccoonLithospermum caroliniense
- Virginia False GromwellLithospermum virginianum
- Sandywoods ChaffheadCarphephorus bellidifolius
- Woolly ChaffheadCarphephorus tomentosus
- Feather-bristle BeaksedgeRhynchospora oligantha
- Fewflower BeaksedgeRhynchospora rariflora
- Gray's BeaksedgeRhynchospora grayi
- Harvey's BeaksedgeRhynchospora harveyi
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.