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
- Red-headed WoodpeckerMelanerpes erythrocephalus
- Red-shouldered HawkButeo lineatus
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
- Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
- Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
- Rose-breasted GrosbeakPheucticus ludovicianus
- Ruby-crowned KingletRegulus calendula
- Ruby-throated HummingbirdArchilochus colubris
- Ruffed GrouseBonasa umbellus
- Rusty BlackbirdEuphagus carolinus
- Scarlet TanagerPiranga olivacea
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- Song SparrowMelospiza melodia
- SoraPorzana carolina
- Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
- Swainson's WarblerLimnothlypis swainsonii
- Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- Tufted TitmouseBaeolophus bicolor
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- VeeryCatharus fuscescens
- Virginia RailRallus limicola
- White-breasted NuthatchSitta carolinensis
- White-eyed VireoVireo griseus
- White-throated SparrowZonotrichia albicollis
- White-winged DoveZenaida asiatica
- Wild TurkeyMeleagris gallopavo
- Willow FlycatcherEmpidonax traillii
- Wilson's SnipeGallinago delicata
- Wood DuckAix sponsa
- Wood ThrushHylocichla mustelina
- Worm-eating WarblerHelmitheros vermivorum
- Yellow-bellied SapsuckerSphyrapicus varius
- Yellow-billed CuckooCoccyzus americanus
- Yellow-breasted ChatIcteria virens
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
- Yellow-rumped WarblerDendroica coronata
- Yellow-throated WarblerDendroica dominica
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.