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
- 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.