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.
- Red TurtleheadChelone obliqua
- Slender Yellow-eyed-grassXyris torta
- White TurtleheadChelone glabra
- White Fringeless OrchidPlatanthera integrilabia
- American EelgrassVallisneria americana
- Mullein FoxgloveDasistoma macrophyllum
- Arabis georgianaArabis georgiana
- Highland DoghobbleLeucothoe fontanesiana
- Large Stem AlumrootHeuchera macrorhiza
- Wirestem MuhlyMuhlenbergia frondosa
- Woodland MuhlyMuhlenbergia sylvatica
- Bluntleaf WaterleafHydrophyllum canadense
- Early SaxifrageMicranthes virginiensis
- SweetshrubCalycanthus floridus
- Big Floating-heartNymphoides aquatica
- Coastal Rose-gentianSabatia calycina
- Kentucky Ladys SlipperCypripedium kentuckiense
- Little Floating-heartNymphoides cordata
- Sabatia dodecandra var. foliosaSabatia foliosa
- Large Witch-alderFothergilla major
- Brazilian WatergrassLuziola bahiensis
- Seaside BrookweedSamolus parviflorus
- Shade MudflowerMicranthemum umbrosum
- Canadian WaterweedElodea canadensis
- Lobed Barren-strawberryGeum lobatum
- Spoonleaf SundewDrosera intermedia
- SupplejackBerchemia scandens
- Woolly Dutchman's-pipeIsotrema tomentosum
- Eastern BloodleafIresine rhizomatosa
- Stiff CowbaneOxypolis rigidior
- Meadow SpikemossSelaginella apoda
- Eastern Blue-eyed-grassSisyrinchium atlanticum
- Carolina FanwortCabomba caroliniana
- Harper's FimbryFimbristylis perpusilla
- Large-flower HeartleafHexastylis shuttleworthii
- Southern Lady FernAthyrium asplenioides
- Vahl's FimbryFimbristylis vahlii
- Water-spider OrchidHabenaria repens
- Alabama HeartleafHexastylis speciosa
- Cliftonia monophyllaCliftonia monophylla
- Creeping SpotflowerAcmella repens
- False RosemaryConradina canescens
- Marl SpleenwortAsplenium heteroresiliens
- Scoparia dulcisScoparia dulcis
- Swamp JessamineGelsemium rankinii
- Broadleaf Barbara's-buttonsMarshallia trinervia
- Common HornwortCeratophyllum demersum
- Field HorsetailEquisetum arvense
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.