| Taxa: |
| Order: |
| Family: |
| Reptilia |
| Squamata |
| Colubridae |
| NatureServe Global Rank: |
| NatureServe State (NC) Rank: |
| G5 |
| S4 |
| Federal Status: |
| NC State Status: |
| --- |
| --- |
| Land Unit |
| US Fish & Wildlife Service |
| US Forest Service |
| US National Park Service |
| US Department of Defense |
| NC State Parks |
| NC University System |
| NC Wildlife Res. Com. |
| NC Forest Service |
| NC Div. of Coastal Mgmt. |
| Local Governments |
| Non-Governmental Org. |
| Other Public Lands |
| Private Lands |
| GAP Status 1-2 |
| All Protected Lands |
| Statewide |
| Hectares |
| 1,505.70 |
| 201,047.13 |
| 55,309.77 |
| 72,551.07 |
| 8,226.99 |
| 771.21 |
| 28,917.45 |
| 4,253.73 |
| 9.81 |
| 5,383.80 |
| 6,488.10 |
| 636.21 |
| 2,155,406.76 |
| 118,931.19 |
| 383,800.38 |
| 2,540,507.73 |
| Acres |
| 3,720.67 |
| 496,798.18 |
| 136,673.39 |
| 179,277.56 |
| 20,329.33 |
| 1,905.70 |
| 71,456.56 |
| 11,651.93 |
| 24.24 |
| 13,303.66 |
| 16,032.44 |
| 1,572.11 |
| 5,326,125.06 |
| 295,026.05 |
| 949,531.95 |
| 6,278,870.83 |
| % of Dist. on |
| Prot. Lands |
| 0.4 % |
| 52.4 % |
| 14.4 % |
| 18.9 % |
| 2.1 % |
| 0.2 % |
| 7.4 % |
| 1.1 % |
| < 0.1 % |
| 1.6 % |
| 1.6 % |
| < 0.1 % |
| < 0.1 % |
| 31.0 % |
| ----- |
| ----- |
| % of Dist. on |
| All Lands |
| < 0.1 % |
| 7.9 % |
| 2.2 % |
| 2.9 % |
| 0.3 % |
| < 0.1 % |
| 1.1 % |
| 0.2 % |
| < 0.1 % |
| 0.2 % |
| 0.3 % |
| < 0.1 % |
| 84.8 % |
| 4.7 % |
| ----- |
| ----- |
|
Coastal plain habitat includes Coastal Plain flatwoods dominated by loblolly or longleaf pines and wiregrass (Palmer and Braswell, 1995). NATURE SERVE GLOBAL HABITAT COMMENTS: Habitats diverse; semiarid to damp, lowlands to mountains, grasslands to open forests and forest edges, wilderness to suburban. Secretive; hides in logs and stumps and under surface cover. Sometimes found in the open. Hibernates underground or in rock crevice. Eggs are laid in soil, sawdust piles, under surface cover. |
| Code | Name | Description | NC Natural Heritage Program Equivalent |
| 97 | Mesic Longleaf Pine | Longleaf pine woodlands without a major scrub oak component. Slash or loblolly pines may be present as well. | Mesic Pine Flatwoods |
| 42 | Xeric Longleaf Pine | Sandhills including a range of longleaf pine density from predominantly wiregrass, scrub oak dominated to true longleaf pine woodland. This does not include mesic or saturated flatwood types. | Xeric Sandhill Scrub, Pine/Scrub Oak Sandhill, Coastal Fringe Sandhill |
| 46 | Xeric Oak - Pine Forests | Mixed forest dominated by yellow pines with white or northern red oaks co-dominating. | Pine Oak Heath |
| 232 | Xeric Pine-Hardwood Woodlands and Forests | Mixed forest dominated by yellow pines with drier oaks including southern red, post, and chestnut oaks. | Dry Oak Hickory Forest |
| 220 | Piedmont Xeric Pine Forests | Dry to xeric pine forests dominated by Virginia pine, shortleaf pine or Eastern Red Cedar. | Pine Oak Heath |
| 226 | Piedmont Xeric Woodlands | Generally post and blackjack oak dominated woodlands. White ash and pignut hickory can be found in combination with Eastern red cedar on glades. | Xeric Hardpan Forest |
| 205 | Agricultural Pasture/Hay and Natural Herbaceous | Farm fields used for pasture grass or hay production, as well as old fields dominated by native and exotic grasses. | No equivalent |
| 517 | Hemlock Floodplain Forest | Alluvial forest with hemlock and/or white pine in mountains and western piedmont. Hydrology is generally temporarily to seasonally flooded. | Canada Hemlock Forest |
| 522 | Northern Hardwoods | High Elevation forests including yellow birch, American beech, and yellow buckeye. Includes forests with Hemlock and Yellow Birch. | Northern Hardwoods Forest, Boulderfield Forest |
| 523 | Grassy Bald | High Elevation grassy balds including Pennsylvania sedge, mountain oatgrass, as well as shrubby areas dominated by Alleghany and smooth blackberry. | Grassy Bald |
| 524 | Shrub Bald | Variable phenologies, predominantly evergreen balds with rhododendon and Mountain laurels. Deciduous shrubs including green alder and Alleghany and smooth blackberry are included as well. Red Oak - Chestnut Oak Woodlands may be included in cases where the density of the woodland species is low and the shrub component is dense. | Heath Bald |
| 525 | Appalachian Oak Forest | A variety of oak forest types including Black, White, Scarlet Oaks in dry to mesic situations. Includes forests historically co-dominated by American Chestnut. | High Elevation Red Oak Forest, Montane White Oak Forest |
| 526 | Appalachian Cove Forest | Mixed Mesophytic forests of the mountains. Includes tuliptree, basswood, yellow buckeye and surgar maple. This class is mapped to include cove forests dominated or co-dominated by hemlock. | Rich Cove Forest, Acidic Cove Forest |
| 527 | Appalachian Hemlock | Upland hemlock forests of the moutains region. Vary from side slopes to steep slope positions. | Canada Hemlock Forest |
| 528 | Appalachian Xeric Pine Forest | Pine forests and woodlands on xeric sites. A variety of pines, including Virginia, Shortleaf, Eastern White Pine, Table Mountain and Pitch pine. Often small areas of dense pine within a matrix of Xeric Oak-Pine Forests. | Pine Oak Heath |
| 529 | Appalachian Xeric Mixed Forest | Mixed forests with Virginia, Shortleaf, Eastern White Pine, Table Mountain and Pitch pines in combination with xeric oak species. Oaks include, white, Southern Red, black, and rock chestnut. | Pine Oak Heath |
| 533 | Appalachian Swamp Forest | Evergreen and deciduous forests with saturated hydrologies. This class may contain a variety of trees species, including hemlock - red maple, pitch pine, and white pine forests. | Swamp Forest-Bog Complex, Southern Appalachian Bog, Southern Appalachian Fen |
| 535 | Talus/Outcrops/Cliffs | Includes seep talus slopes with sparce vegetation, as well as outcrops including, granitic outcrops. Some outcrops will have been mapped as barren rock. | No equivalent |
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