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.
- Small's BogbuttonLachnocaulon minus
- American PillwortPilularia americana
- Fuirena longaFuirena longa
- Pinguicula planifoliaPinguicula planifolia
- Amazon SprangletopDinebra panicoides
- American Barnyard GrassEchinochloa muricata var. microstachya
- Annual Water Aster; Annual Yard AsterSymphyotrichum divaricatum
- Baby JumpupMecardonia procumbens
- Bearded SprangletopDiplachne fascicularis
- Brittle WaternymphNajas minor
- Chicken-spikeSphenoclea zeylanica
- Common Water-primroseLudwigia hexapetala
- Curly PondweedPotamogeton crispus
- Dotted DuckmeatLandoltia punctata
- Florida bellflowerRotanthella floridana
- Hygrophila polyspermaHygrophila polysperma
- Japanese MazusMazus pumilus
- Lawn Marsh-pennywortHydrocotyle sibthorpioides
- Ludwigia grandifloraLudwigia grandiflora
- Marsilea muticaMarsilea mutica
- Phalaris angustaPhalaris angusta
- Pin OakQuercus palustris
- Pond Water StarwortCallitriche stagnalis
- Redroot AmaranthAmaranthus retroflexus
- Roundhead RushJuncus validus
- Sacred LotusNelumbo nucifera
- Slender centauryCentaurium tenuiflorum
- Thalia geniculataThalia geniculata
- Triangle Water FernCeratopteris richardii
- Vicia acutifoliaVicia acutifolia
- Weeping WillowSalix babylonica
- Yellow Floating-heartNymphoides peltata
- Yellow IrisIris pseudacorus
- Brazilian WaterweedEgeria densa
- Common Water-hyacinthOshuna crassipes
- Eurasian Water-milfoilMyriophyllum spicatum
- Oxycaryum cubenseCyperus blepharoleptos
- Alligator-weedAlternanthera philoxeroides
- Giant SalviniaSalvinia molesta
- Parrot-featherMyriophyllum aquaticum
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.