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.
- Greater DuckweedSpirodela polyrhiza
- Lacelip Ladies'-tressesSpiranthes laciniata
- Water DawnflowerStylisma aquatica
- Seaside BrookweedSamolus parviflorus
- Canadian WaterweedElodea canadensis
- Carolina Mosquito-fernAzolla caroliniana
- Common BladderwortUtricularia macrorhiza
- Dwarf BladderwortUtricularia olivacea
- Eastern Purple BladderwortUtricularia purpurea
- Floating BladderwortUtricularia radiata
- Humped BladderwortUtricularia gibba
- Lavender BladderwortUtricularia resupinata
- Leafy BladderwortUtricularia foliosa
- Striped BladderwortUtricularia striata
- Swollen BladderwortUtricularia inflata
- Two-flower BladderwortUtricularia biflora
- Stillingia aquaticaStillingia aquatica
- Yellow HatpinsSyngonanthus flavidulus
- Juniper-leafPolypremum procumbens
- Carolina FanwortCabomba caroliniana
- Vahl's FimbryFimbristylis vahlii
- Flattened PipewortEriocaulon compressum
- Mecardonia acuminata var. microphyllaMecardonia acuminata var. microphylla
- Seven-angle PipewortEriocaulon aquaticum
- Ten Angled Pipewort; Hat Pin; Bog ButtonEriocaulon decangulare var. decangulare
- Common HornwortCeratophyllum demersum
- Slender WaternymphNajas gracillima
- Spineless HornwortCeratophyllum echinatum
- Horned PondweedZannichellia palustris
- Najas filifoliaNajas filifolia
- Tansy DogshadeLimnosciadium pinnatum
- Water StargrassHeteranthera dubia
- Blue Mud PlantainHeteranthera limosa
- Brazilian WatermealWolffia brasiliensis
- ChaffweedCentunculus minimus
- Colombian WatermealWolffia columbiana
- Strong QuillwortIsoetes valida
- American FeatherfoilHottonia inflata
- American WaterwortElatine americana
- Branched Hedge-hyssopGratiola ramosa
- Carolina GrasswortLilaeopsis carolinensis
- Coastal False-asphodelTriantha racemosa
- Dwarf-burheadHelanthium tenellum
- Florida MudmidgetWolffiella gladiata
- Green Arrow-arumPeltandra virginica
- Narrowleaf PaleseedLeucospora multifida
- Pink BogbuttonSclerolepis uniflora
- Short's Hedge-hyssopGratiola viscidula
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.