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.
- Diffuse RushJuncus diffusissimus
- Giant CaneArundinaria gigantea
- Pennsylvania RushJuncus gymnocarpus
- Redpod RushJuncus trigonocarpus
- Big CordgrassSporobolus cynosuroides
- Fragrant FlatsedgeCyperus odoratus
- Fragrant SpikesedgeCyperus sesquiflorus
- Globe FlatsedgeCyperus echinatus
- Green PitcherplantSarracenia oreophila
- Illinois PondweedPotamogeton illinoensis
- Largeleaf PondweedPotamogeton amplifolius
- Longleaf PondweedPotamogeton nodosus
- Ribbonleaf PondweedPotamogeton epihydrus
- Slender FlatsedgeCyperus bipartitus
- Small PondweedPotamogeton pusillus
- Spotted PondweedPotamogeton pulcher
- Tallapoosa Cane, Alabama Cane, Brittle CaneArundinaria alabamensis
- Waterthread PondweedPotamogeton diversifolius
- Stiletto BeaksedgeRhynchospora stiletto
- American Bur-reedSparganium americanum
- River OatsChasmanthium latifolium
- American LotusNelumbo lutea
- Mosquito BeaksedgeRhynchospora crinipes
- Swamp-forest BeaksedgeRhynchospora decurrens
- American GroundnutApios americana
- Purpleleaf WillowherbEpilobium coloratum
- Coastal Water-hyssopBacopa monnieri
- Culver's-rootVeronicastrum virginicum
- Hairy Bush HoneysuckleDiervilla rivularis
- Roundleaf Water-hyssopBacopa rotundifolia
- Southern Bush-honeysuckleDiervilla sessilifolia
- Variable-leaf Water-milfoilMyriophyllum heterophyllum
- Creeping Love GrassEragrostis reptans
- Water-shieldBrasenia schreberi
- Bald SpikerushEleocharis erythropoda
- Needle SpikerushEleocharis acicularis
- Eubotrys racemosaEubotrys racemosa
- Golden-clubOrontium aquaticum
- Sandbar LovegrassEragrostis frankii
- Teal LovegrassEragrostis hypnoides
- Virginia SweetspireItea virginica
- Rice CutgrassLeersia oryzoides
- White CutgrassLeersia virginica
- Wild Four-o'clockMirabilis nyctaginea
- Fringed Yellow-eyed-grassXyris fimbriata
- Kentucky CoffeetreeGymnocladus dioicus
- Mountain CamelliaStewartia ovata
- Pink TurtleheadChelone lyonii
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.