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.
- Shortleaf Skeleton-grassGymnopogon brevifolius
- Spurge-nettleCnidoscolus stimulosus
- Four-angle Rose-gentianSabatia quadrangula
- Narrowleaf Rose-pinkSabatia brachiata
- White ColicrootAletris farinosa
- Pineland Scaly-pinkStipulicida setacea
- Sandbog Death-camasZigadenus glaberrimus
- Tawny CottongrassEriophorum virginicum
- Wavyleaf NoseburnTragia urens
- Common LeopardbaneArnica acaulis
- NestroniaNestronia umbellula
- Pine-barren SandwortGeocarpon carolinianum
- Coastal JointweedPolygonella articulata
- Elliott's HairsedgeBulbostylis coarctata
- Fly-poisonAmianthium muscitoxicum
- Green Adder's-mouthMalaxis unifolia
- Longleaf WedgescaleSphenopholis filiformis
- Seaside Three-awnAristida tuberculosa
- Woollysheath Three-awnAristida lanosa
- Coastal Plain Small Spreading PogoniaCleistesiopsis oricamporum
- Betony Leaf NoseburnTragia betonicifolia
- Gomphrena serrataGomphrena serrata
- Large Flower Coreopsis; Large Flowered Coreopsis; Largeflower Coreopsis; Largeflowered Coreopsis; Large Flower Tick Seed; Large Flowered Tick Seed; Largeflower Tick Seed; Largeflowered Tick Seed; Large Flower Tickseed; Large Flowered Tickseed; Largeflower Tickseed; Largeflowered TickseedCoreopsis grandiflora var. harveyana
- Longspike FluffgrassTridens strictus
- Orange MulleinVerbascum phlomoides
- Piedmont RhododendronRhododendron minus
- Plains LovegrassEragrostis intermedia
- Sandhill AmaranthAmaranthus arenicola
- Shepherd's-cressTeesdalia nudicaulis
- Standing-cypressIpomopsis rubra
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.