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
- 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.