Habitat in Alabama
Freshwater marshes
Open, herb-covered wetlands with fresh, non-tidal water. Schafale
- Plants
- 261
- Birds
- 59
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Alabama. Not a planting list.
- Sharpwing Monkey-flowerMimulus alatus
- Mingled BeakrushRhynchospora mixta
- Swamp-forest BeaksedgeRhynchospora decurrens
- Tall Horned BeaksedgeRhynchospora macrostachya
- American GroundnutApios americana
- Coast Cockspur-grassEchinochloa walteri
- Tall Meadow-rueThalictrum pubescens
- Blue Water-hyssopBacopa caroliniana
- Bog YellowcressRorippa palustris
- Canada GermanderTeucrium canadense var. canadense
- Southern Marsh YellowcressRorippa teres
- Stalkless YellowcressRorippa sessiliflora
- Teucrium canadense var. hypoleucumTeucrium canadense var. hypoleucum
- Tropical Water-hyssopBacopa innominata
- Capitate Spike Rush; Capitate SpikerushEleocharis geniculata
- Bald SpikerushEleocharis erythropoda
- Blunt Spike RushEleocharis obtusa
- Common SpikerushEleocharis palustris
- Dwarf SpikerushEleocharis parvula
- Englemann's SpikerushEleocharis engelmannii
- Needle SpikerushEleocharis acicularis
- Squarestem SpikerushEleocharis quadrangulata
- American Water-plantainAlisma subcordatum
- Coastal LovegrassEragrostis refracta
- Teal LovegrassEragrostis hypnoides
- Eastern Marsh FernThelypteris palustris var. pubescens
- Rice CutgrassLeersia oryzoides
- Southern CutgrassLeersia hexandra
- Longspike FluffgrassTridens strictus
- Pine Barren FluffgrassTridens ambiguus
- Seashore SaltgrassDistichlis spicata
- Irisleaf Yellow-eyed-grassXyris iridifolia
- SawgrassCladium jamaicense
- Slender Yellow-eyed-grassXyris torta
- Soapwort GentianGentiana saponaria
- American BugleweedLycopus americanus
- Royal FernOsmunda spectabilis
- Ragged Fringed OrchidPlatanthera lacera
- Yellow-fringed OrchidPlatanthera ciliaris
- Sensitive FernOnoclea sensibilis
- Slenderleaf False-DragonheadPhysostegia leptophylla
- Common ReedPhragmites australis
- Illinois BundleflowerDesmanthus illinoensis
- Indian JointvetchAeschynomene indica
- Narrowleaf BugleweedLycopus angustifolius
- Southern Wild-riceZizaniopsis miliacea
- Taperleaf BugleweedLycopus rubellus
- Creeping CucumberMelothria pendula
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 59
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- AnhingaAnhinga anhinga
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Henslow's SparrowAmmodramus henslowii
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- Horned GrebePodiceps auritus
- Least BitternIxobrychus exilis
- Least FlycatcherEmpidonax minimus
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Marsh WrenCistothorus palustris
- Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
- Northern ParulaParula americana
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- Northern WaterthrushSeiurus noveboracensis
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Painted BuntingPasserina ciris
- Purple FinchCarpodacus purpureus
- Purple GallinulePorphyrio martinica
- Red-headed WoodpeckerMelanerpes erythrocephalus
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
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)
- Georgia pond and emergent wetland, Robert 'Bob' Hynes habitat picture
Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.