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.
- Florida bellflowerRotanthella floridana
- Giant ArrowheadSagittaria montevidensis
- Ludwigia peruvianaLudwigia peruviana
- Marsh ParsleyCyclospermum leptophyllum
- Mourning Love GrassEragrostis lugens
- Phalaris angustaPhalaris angusta
- Ricefield FlatsedgeCyperus iria
- Rocky Mountain SageSalvia reflexa
- Salzmann's Mille GrainesOldenlandia salzmannii
- Strawstem BeggarticksBidens comosa
- Swamp FernTelmatoblechnum serrulatum
- Thalia geniculataThalia geniculata
- Water SpeedwellVeronica anagallis-aquatica
- Yellow IrisIris pseudacorus
- Pampas GrassCortaderia selloana
- Scarlet Wisteria-treeSesbania punicea
- Chinese Tallow-treeTriadica sebifera
- Oxycaryum cubenseCyperus blepharoleptos
- Purple LoosestrifeLythrum salicaria
- Marsh DewflowerMurdannia keisak
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.