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
- Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
- Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Little GullHydrocoloeus minutus
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Mississippi KiteIctinia mississippiensis
- Mottled DuckAnas fulvigula
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podiceps
- Piping PloverCharadrius melodus
- Purple GallinulePorphyrio martinica
- Purple MartinProgne subis
- Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
- RedheadAythya americana
- Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
- Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
- Ruddy DuckOxyura jamaicensis
- SanderlingCalidris alba
- Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatus
- Snow GooseChen caerulescens
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
- Snowy PloverCharadrius nivosus
- Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopus
- Surf ScoterMelanitta perspicillata
- Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
- Thayer's GullLarus thayeri
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- Tricolored HeronEgretta tricolor
- Western SandpiperCalidris mauri
- Western Snowy PloverCharadrius nivosus nivosus
- White IbisEudocimus albus
- White-faced IbisPlegadis chihi
- Wood DuckAix sponsa
- Wood StorkMycteria americana
- 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.