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.
- Threadleaf ArrowheadSagittaria filiformis
- Cypress-knee SedgeCarex decomposita
- Drooping SedgeCarex prasina
- Dwarf Crested IrisIris cristata
- False Hop SedgeCarex lupuliformis
- Fibrous-root SedgeCarex communis
- Graceful SedgeCarex gracillima
- Mountain Sweet-pepperbushClethra acuminata
- Prairie False FoxgloveAgalinis heterophylla
- Ravine SedgeCarex impressinervia
- Sea Lettuce PondlilyNuphar ulvacea
- Smooth HydrangeaHydrangea arborescens
- Twin-Flowered BindweedConvolvulus fraterniflorus
- Twisted SedgeCarex torta
- Southern CatalpaCatalpa bignonioides
- Virginia IrisIris virginica
- Climbing HempweedMikania scandens
- Broadleaf Pond-lilyNuphar advena
- Four Flower LoosestrifeSteironema quadriflorum
- Shortleaf WitchgrassDichanthelium curtifolium
- Bald CypressTaxodium distichum
- Clethra alnifolia var. tomentosaClethra tomentosa
- Pennsylvania BittercressCardamine pensylvanica
- Pond CypressTaxodium ascendens
- Lanceleaf FrogfruitPhyla lanceolata
- Savanna PanicgrassPhanopyrum gymnocarpon
- Small Fruit WitchgrassDichanthelium microcarpon
- Spermacoce tenuiorSpermacoce tenuior
- White Water CrowfootRanunculus longirostris
- Woolly WitchgrassDichanthelium scabriusculum
- Alabama PhloxPhlox pulchra
- Compact DodderCuscuta compacta
- Lobelia flaccidifoliaLobelia flaccidifolia
- American SpeedwellVeronica americana
- Great Blue LobeliaLobelia siphilitica
- Panhandle LilyLilium iridollae
- Fall PhloxPhlox paniculata
- Southern LobeliaLobelia amoena
- American Halfchaff SedgeCyperus neotropicalis
- Canby's BulrushSchoenoplectus etuberculatus
- Floating Marsh-pennywortHydrocotyle ranunculoides
- Low SpikesedgeCyperus hortensis
- Smallflower Halfchaff SedgeCyperus subsquarrosus
- Swaying BulrushSchoenoplectus subterminalis
- TitiCyrilla racemiflora
- Brownfruit RushJuncus pelocarpus
- Canadian RushJuncus canadensis
- Creeping RushJuncus repens
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.