Habitat in Alabama
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time. Schafale
- Plants
- 418
- Birds
- 146
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Alabama. Not a planting list.
- Wild GeraniumGeranium maculatum
- Pale SmartweedPersicaria lapathifolia
- Appalachian Orange ConeflowerRudbeckia umbrosa
- Canada VioletViola canadensis
- Carolina CrownbeardVerbesina walteri
- Dark Indigo BushAmorpha nitens
- Green HawthornCrataegus viridis var. viridis
- Hooded Blue VioletViola sororia
- LeConte's VioletViola affinis
- Lowland Beard TonguePenstemon alluviorum
- Red GrapeVitis palmata
- Riverflat HawthornCrataegus opaca
- Rudbeckia fulgida var. spathulataRudbeckia spathulata
- Southern Woodland VioletViola hirsutula
- Threepart VioletViola tripartita
- WingstemVerbesina alternifolia
- September ElmUlmus serotina
- Slippery ElmUlmus rubra
- White VervainVerbena urticifolia
- Winged ElmUlmus alata
- American PersimmonDiospyros virginiana
- BlackgumNyssa sylvatica
- Bog SmartweedPersicaria setacea
- Broadleaf IronweedVernonia glauca
- Climbing RoseRosa setigera
- Common ElderberrySambucus canadensis
- Dotted SmartweedPersicaria punctata
- Eastern Smooth BeardtonguePenstemon laevigatus
- Erect KnotweedPolygonum erectum
- Giant IronweedVernonia gigantea
- Green AshFraxinus pennsylvanica
- JumpseedPersicaria virginiana
- Loblolly PinePinus taeda
- New York IronweedVernonia noveboracensis
- Pennsylvania SmartweedPersicaria pensylvanica
- Pumpkin AshFraxinus profunda
- Common Cut Leaf Coneflower; Green Head ConeflowerRudbeckia laciniata var. laciniata
- Nutmeg HickoryCarya myristiciformis
- PecanCarya illinoinensis
- River BirchBetula nigra
- Shagbark HickoryCarya ovata
- Shellbark HickoryCarya laciniosa
- Southern Shagbark HickoryCarya carolinae-septentrionalis
- Florida GrapeVitis simpsonii
- Foxglove BeardtonguePenstemon digitalis
- Frost GrapeVitis vulpina
- Possum GrapeVitis baileyana
- Virginia CreeperParthenocissus quinquefolia
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 146
- Downy WoodpeckerPicoides pubescens
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- Eastern Wood-peweeContopus virens
- Eurasian Collared-doveStreptopelia decaocto
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Evening GrosbeakCoccothraustes vespertinus
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- Forster's TernSterna forsteri
- Fox SparrowPasserella iliaca
- GadwallAnas strepera
- Golden-crowned KingletRegulus satrapa
- Golden-winged WarblerVermivora chrysoptera
- Gray CatbirdDumetella carolinensis
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Hairy WoodpeckerPicoides villosus
- Hermit ThrushCatharus guttatus
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- Hooded WarblerWilsonia citrina
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- Kentucky WarblerOporornis formosus
- Least BitternIxobrychus exilis
- Least FlycatcherEmpidonax minimus
- Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolnii
- Long-eared OwlAsio otus
- Louisiana WaterthrushSeiurus motacilla
- Magnolia WarblerDendroica magnolia
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Marsh WrenCistothorus palustris
- Mississippi KiteIctinia mississippiensis
- Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
- Northern ParulaParula americana
- Northern Saw-whet OwlAegolius acadicus
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- Northern WaterthrushSeiurus noveboracensis
- Orange-crowned WarblerVermivora celata
- Orchard OrioleIcterus spurius
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
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.