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Abstract: This inventory of the natural areas, natural communities, and rare species of Robeson County was funded by the North Carolina Natural Heritage Trust Fund. This inventory identifies the most significant natural areas in the county, describes their features, and documents the natural communities and rare species of plants and animals associated with them. Habitat conditions, natural processes, and threats are also described. The inventory is intended to provide guidance for land use decisions by conservation and land management organizations, local governments, and interested citizens. Field work was carried out by Harry E. LeGrand, Jr., of the NorthCarolina Natural Heritage Program, during 2007 and 2008. The inventory identifies 48 areas (46 terrestrial and two aquatic) of significance at the national, state, regional, and county level, as determined by criteria established by the North CarolinaNatural Heritage Program. Six natural areas are of National significance. Four of these are clay-based Carolina bays, whereas the other two Nationally significant sites are fairly extensive pine flatwoods of the “Lumbee savanna” variant. A total of 14 additional sites are State significant, 18are Regionally significant, and 10 are significant at the county level.