| Taxa: |
| Order: |
| Family: |
| Reptilia |
| Squamata |
| Colubridae |
| NatureServe Global Rank: |
| NatureServe State (NC) Rank: |
| G4 |
| S3 |
| Federal Status: |
| NC State Status: |
| FSC |
| SR |
| 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 |
| 243.63 |
| 2,789.19 |
| 54,559.62 |
| 777.06 |
| 1,338.84 |
| 405.45 |
| 19,015.20 |
| 2,996.46 |
| 136.35 |
| 467.37 |
| 893.16 |
| 51.30 |
| 348,949.71 |
| 4,311.63 |
| 82,889.64 |
| 432,623.34 |
| Acres |
| 602.02 |
| 6,892.24 |
| 134,819.73 |
| 1,920.16 |
| 3,308.35 |
| 1,001.89 |
| 46,987.57 |
| 7,404.41 |
| 336.93 |
| 1,154.90 |
| 2,207.05 |
| 126.77 |
| 862,273.34 |
| 10,654.27 |
| 204,824.72 |
| 1,069,035.35 |
| % of Dist. on |
| Prot. Lands |
| 0.3 % |
| 3.4 % |
| 65.8 % |
| 0.9 % |
| 1.6 % |
| 0.5 % |
| 22.3 % |
| 3.6 % |
| 0.2 % |
| 1.1 % |
| 1.1 % |
| < 0.1 % |
| 0.0 % |
| 5.2 % |
| ----- |
| ----- |
| % of Dist. on |
| All Lands |
| < 0.1 % |
| 0.6 % |
| 12.6 % |
| 0.2 % |
| 0.3 % |
| < 0.1 % |
| 4.4 % |
| 0.7 % |
| < 0.1 % |
| 0.1 % |
| 0.2 % |
| < 0.1 % |
| 80.7 % |
| 1.0 % |
| ----- |
| ----- |
|
NATURE SERVE GLOBAL HABITAT COMMENTS: Open dry sandy areas: fields, river floodplains, open woodland (pine, oak-pine). Burrows into soil when inactive. |
| Code | Name | Description | NC Natural Heritage Program Equivalent |
| 124 | Maritime Scrubs and Tidal Shrublands | Coastal shrubs including wax-myrtle, swamp rose, alder, yaupon, and greenbriar. | Maritime Shrubs, Salt Shrub |
| 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 |
| 214 | Barren; bare rock and sand | Areas of bare rock, sand or clay. | No equivalent |
| 60 | Sand | Exposed sand, predominantly in the sandhills region where disturbance or the extreme site conditions prevent natural regeneration. | No equivalent |
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For more information please contact them at:
NC-GAP Analysis Project
Dept. of Zoology, NCSU
Campus Box 7617
Raleigh, NC 27695-7617
(919) 513-2853
www.basic.ncsu.edu/ncgap