Habitat in Alabama
Ponds, lakes and their shores
Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs. Schafale
- Plants
- 232
- Birds
- 87
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Alabama. Not a planting list.
- Gaping GrassSteinchisma hians
- Lanceleaf FrogfruitPhyla lanceolata
- Savanna PanicgrassPhanopyrum gymnocarpon
- Small Fruit WitchgrassDichanthelium microcarpon
- White Water CrowfootRanunculus longirostris
- Yellow Water-buttercupRanunculus flabellaris
- Glade LobeliaLobelia glandulosa
- American Halfchaff SedgeCyperus neotropicalis
- Canby's BulrushSchoenoplectus etuberculatus
- Cyperus drummondiiCyperus drummondii
- Low SpikesedgeCyperus hortensis
- Rhexia parvifloraRhexia parviflora
- Smallflower Halfchaff SedgeCyperus subsquarrosus
- Swaying BulrushSchoenoplectus subterminalis
- TitiCyrilla racemiflora
- Umbrella Flat SedgeCyperus diandrus
- Woolgrass BulrushScirpus cyperinus
- Brownfruit RushJuncus pelocarpus
- Canadian RushJuncus canadensis
- Creeping RushJuncus repens
- Diffuse RushJuncus diffusissimus
- Elliott's RushJuncus elliottii
- Leathery RushJuncus coriaceus
- Manyhead RushJuncus polycephalos
- Weak RushJuncus debilis
- Whiteroot RushJuncus brachycarpus
- West Indian Meadow-beautyRhexia cubensis
- Clasping-leaf PondweedPotamogeton perfoliatus
- Fragrant SpikesedgeCyperus sesquiflorus
- Illinois PondweedPotamogeton illinoensis
- Largeleaf PondweedPotamogeton amplifolius
- Le Conte's FlatsedgeCyperus lecontei
- Longleaf PondweedPotamogeton nodosus
- Ribbonleaf PondweedPotamogeton epihydrus
- Sago PondweedStuckenia pectinata
- Sheathed FlatsedgeCyperus haspan
- Small PondweedPotamogeton pusillus
- Smallhead Marsh-elderIva microcephala
- Spotted PondweedPotamogeton pulcher
- Tropical FlatsedgeCyperus surinamensis
- Waterthread PondweedPotamogeton diversifolius
- Sugarcane PlumegrassErianthus giganteus
- West Indian BeakrushRhynchospora brachychaeta
- American Bur-reedSparganium americanum
- American LotusNelumbo lutea
- Anglestem BeaksedgeRhynchospora caduca
- Chapman's BeaksedgeRhynchospora chapmanii
- Longbeak BeaksedgeRhynchospora scirpoides
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 87
- American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- American White PelicanPelecanus erythrorhynchos
- American WigeonAnas americana
- AnhingaAnhinga anhinga
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black SkimmerRynchops niger
- Black TernChlidonias niger
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanus
- Blue-winged TealAnas discors
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphia
- BuffleheadBucephala albeola
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Common GoldeneyeBucephala clangula
- Common Ground-doveColumbina passerina
- Common LoonGavia immer
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eurasian WigeonAnas penelope
- Forster's TernSterna forsteri
- GadwallAnas strepera
- Glaucous GullLarus hyperboreus
- Gray KingbirdTyrannus dominicensis
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Greater ScaupAythya marila
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- Horned GrebePodiceps auritus
- Least BitternIxobrychus exilis
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Least TernSternula antillarum
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.