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
- Song SparrowMelospiza melodia
- Swallow-tailed KiteElanoides forficatus
- Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- White IbisEudocimus albus
- White-breasted NuthatchSitta carolinensis
- Wood DuckAix sponsa
- Wood StorkMycteria americana
- Yellow-billed CuckooCoccyzus americanus
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
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.