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.
- Shortbeak BeaksedgeRhynchospora nitens
- White BeaksedgeRhynchospora alba
- Cutleaf Water-milfoilMyriophyllum pinnatum
- Lake CressRorippa aquatica
- Loose Water-milfoilMyriophyllum laxum
- Roundleaf Water-hyssopBacopa rotundifolia
- Southern Marsh YellowcressRorippa teres
- Variable-leaf Water-milfoilMyriophyllum heterophyllum
- Creeping Love GrassEragrostis reptans
- Eleocharis minimaEleocharis minima
- Eleocharis montanaEleocharis montana
- Knotted SpikerushEleocharis interstincta
- Water-shieldBrasenia schreberi
- Websteria confervoidesEleocharis confervoides
- Bald SpikerushEleocharis erythropoda
- Blackfruit SpikerushEleocharis melanocarpa
- Dwarf SpikerushEleocharis parvula
- Gulf Coast SpikerushEleocharis cellulosa
- Horsetail SpikerushEleocharis equisetoides
- Needle SpikerushEleocharis acicularis
- Purple SpikerushEleocharis atropurpurea
- Robbins's SpikerushEleocharis robbinsii
- Sand SpikerushEleocharis montevidensis
- Slim SpikerushEleocharis elongata
- Viviparous SpikerushEleocharis vivipara
- White SpikerushEleocharis albida
- American Water-plantainAlisma subcordatum
- Golden-clubOrontium aquaticum
- Teal LovegrassEragrostis hypnoides
- Catchfly CutgrassLeersia lenticularis
- Southern CutgrassLeersia hexandra
- Lesser DuckweedLemna aequinoctialis
- Little DuckweedLemna obscura
- Valdivia DuckweedLemna valdiviana
- Bog Yellow-eyed-grassXyris difformis
- Chapman's Yellow-eyed-grassXyris chapmanii
- Fringed Yellow-eyed-grassXyris fimbriata
- Irisleaf Yellow-eyed-grassXyris iridifolia
- Small's Yellow-eyed-grassXyris smalliana
- Twig-rushCladium mariscoides
- Creeping Manna GrassGlyceria acutiflora
- Floating MannagrassGlyceria septentrionalis
- Crassula aquaticaCrassula aquatica
- American EelgrassVallisneria americana
- Lizard's-tailSaururus cernuus
- Narrowleaf BugleweedLycopus angustifolius
- Ovate Leaf False FiddleleafHydrolea ovata
- Sabatia dodecandra var. foliosaSabatia foliosa
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.