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
- 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.