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
- Eastern Wood-peweeContopus virens
- Eurasian Collared-doveStreptopelia decaocto
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Evening GrosbeakCoccothraustes vespertinus
- Fox SparrowPasserella iliaca
- Golden-crowned KingletRegulus satrapa
- Golden-winged WarblerVermivora chrysoptera
- Gray CatbirdDumetella carolinensis
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Hairy WoodpeckerPicoides villosus
- Hermit ThrushCatharus guttatus
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- Hooded WarblerWilsonia citrina
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- Kentucky WarblerOporornis formosus
- KilldeerCharadrius vociferus
- Lark SparrowChondestes grammacus
- Least FlycatcherEmpidonax minimus
- Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
- Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolnii
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Long-eared OwlAsio otus
- Louisiana WaterthrushSeiurus motacilla
- Magnolia WarblerDendroica magnolia
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Marsh WrenCistothorus palustris
- Mississippi KiteIctinia mississippiensis
- Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
- Northern ParulaParula americana
- Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
- Northern Saw-whet OwlAegolius acadicus
- Orange-crowned WarblerVermivora celata
- Orchard OrioleIcterus spurius
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
- Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatus
- Pine SiskinCarduelis pinus
- Prothonotary WarblerProtonotaria citrea
- Purple FinchCarpodacus purpureus
- Red-bellied WoodpeckerMelanerpes carolinus
- Red-breasted NuthatchSitta canadensis
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.