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
- 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.