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
- 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.