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
- 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.