Habitat in Alabama
Streams, rivers and their banks
Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals. Schafale
- Plants
- 322
- Birds
- 135
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Alabama. Not a planting list.
- Sweet White VioletViola blanda
- Bracted VervainVerbena bracteata
- Eastern Black NightshadeSolanum emulans
- September ElmUlmus serotina
- Broadleaf IronweedVernonia glauca
- Climbing RoseRosa setigera
- Common ElderberrySambucus canadensis
- Erect KnotweedPolygonum erectum
- Giant IronweedVernonia gigantea
- Green AshFraxinus pennsylvanica
- New York IronweedVernonia noveboracensis
- Swamp RoseRosa palustris
- Common Cut Leaf Coneflower; Green Head ConeflowerRudbeckia laciniata var. laciniata
- PecanCarya illinoinensis
- Pond PinePinus serotina
- River BirchBetula nigra
- Southeastern Cut Leaf Cone FlowerRudbeckia laciniata var. digitata
- Sun-facing ConeflowerRudbeckia heliopsidis
- Heartleaf Ground-cherryPhysalis cordata
- Red Seed PlantainPlantago rhodosperma
- Narrow Leaf Bushy St. JohnswortHypericum interior
- Sarsaparilla Vine; Dwarf SmilaxSmilax pumila
- Bushy St. John's-wortHypericum densiflorum
- Early St. John's-wortHypericum nudiflorum
- Five Lobe St. JohnswortHypericum lobocarpum
- Hypericum nitidumHypericum nitidum
- Lanceleaf GreenbrierSmilax smallii
- Painted BuckeyeAesculus sylvatica
- Eastern HemlockTsuga canadensis
- Marsh PeaLathyrus palustris
- Spreading SandmatEuphorbia humistrata
- Virginia SpiraeaSpiraea virginiana
- Mimosa strigillosaMimosa strigillosa
- Hazel AlderAlnus serrulata
- Horsetail CrowngrassPaspalum fluitans
- Pale JewelweedImpatiens pallida
- Purplehead SneezeweedHelenium flexuosum
- Southeastern Flowering SpurgeEuphorbia pubentissima
- Wild PoinsettiaEuphorbia cyathophora
- Anglestem Primrose-willowLudwigia leptocarpa
- Bog SpicebushLindera subcoriacea
- Creeping SeedboxLudwigia repens
- Dwarf HackberryCeltis tenuifolia
- Eastern WahooEuonymus atropurpureus
- Hairy SeedboxLudwigia pilosa
- Spotted JewelweedImpatiens capensis
- Climbing AsterAmpelaster carolinianus
- Engelmann's ArrowheadSagittaria engelmanniana
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 135
- Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
- Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- American Tree SparrowSpizella arborea
- American WoodcockScolopax minor
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Barred OwlStrix varia
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black VultureCoragyps atratus
- Black-and-White WarblerMniotilta varia
- Black-billed CuckooCoccyzus erythropthalmus
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
- Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Blue-winged WarblerVermivora pinus
- Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterus
- Brown CreeperCerthia americana
- Brown ThrasherToxostoma rufum
- Brown-headed CowbirdMolothrus ater
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Carolina ChickadeePoecile carolinensis
- Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Cerulean WarblerDendroica cerulea
- Chestnut-sided WarblerDendroica pensylvanica
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Downy WoodpeckerPicoides pubescens
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
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)
Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.