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.
- Bosc's WitchgrassDichanthelium boscii
- Gaping GrassSteinchisma hians
- Savanna PanicgrassPhanopyrum gymnocarpon
- Small Fruit WitchgrassDichanthelium microcarpon
- Spermacoce assurgensSpermacoce remota
- Spotted-sheath WitchgrassDichanthelium yadkinense
- Swamp LeatherflowerClematis crispa
- Appalachian Small Flower PhaceliaPhacelia dubia var. dubia
- Arnoglossum sulcatumArnoglossum sulcatum
- Bristly ButtercupRanunculus hispidus
- Compact DodderCuscuta compacta
- Red MulberryMorus rubra
- Rock ButtercupRanunculus micranthus
- Smooth False-buttonweedSpermacoce glabra
- Smooth PhloxPhlox glaberrima
- Spotted PhaceliaPhacelia maculata
- Yellow Water-buttercupRanunculus flabellaris
- Great Blue LobeliaLobelia siphilitica
- Heartleaf NettleUrtica chamaedryoides
- Georgia LobeliaLobelia georgiana
- Great Indian-plantainArnoglossum reniforme
- Southern LobeliaLobelia amoena
- Trumpet-creeperCampsis radicans
- Common Golden-AlexandersZizia aurea
- Common SweetleafSymplocos tinctoria
- Hairy Woodland BromeBromus pubescens
- Hyssop SkullcapScutellaria integrifolia
- Leafy BulrushScirpus polyphyllus
- Mad-dog SkullcapScutellaria lateriflora
- Nottoway Valley BromeBromus nottowayanus
- Softstem BulrushSchoenoplectus tabernaemontani
- Southern SkullcapScutellaria australis
- Spreading Yellow False FoxgloveAureolaria patula
- Veined SkullcapScutellaria nervosa
- Giant CaneArundinaria gigantea
- Annual Marsh-elderIva annua
- False NettleBoehmeria cylindrica
- HoneyvineCynanchum laeve
- River OatsChasmanthium latifolium
- Sharpwing Monkey-flowerMimulus alatus
- American GroundnutApios americana
- Big CarpetgrassAxonopus furcatus
- Canada GermanderTeucrium canadense var. canadense
- Carolina Canary-grassPhalaris caroliniana
- Clustered FescueFestuca paradoxa
- CrossvineBignonia capreolata
- Deam's Three-seeded MercuryAcalypha deamii
- Largeseed Forget-me-notMyosotis macrosperma
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 146
- Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
- Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- American Tree SparrowSpizella arborea
- American WoodcockScolopax minor
- AnhingaAnhinga anhinga
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Barred OwlStrix varia
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black VultureCoragyps atratus
- Black-and-White WarblerMniotilta varia
- Black-billed CuckooCoccyzus erythropthalmus
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Black-throated Blue WarblerDendroica caerulescens
- Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
- Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Blue-winged TealAnas discors
- Blue-winged WarblerVermivora pinus
- Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
- Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterus
- Brown CreeperCerthia americana
- Brown ThrasherToxostoma rufum
- Brown-headed CowbirdMolothrus ater
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Carolina ChickadeePoecile carolinensis
- Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Cerulean WarblerDendroica cerulea
- Chestnut-sided WarblerDendroica pensylvanica
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
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.