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.
- Scouring RushEquisetum praealtum
- Slender WaternymphNajas gracillima
- Spineless HornwortCeratophyllum echinatum
- Spoon Shape Barbaras ButtonsMarshallia obovata var. obovata
- Widgeon-grassRuppia maritima
- Water StargrassHeteranthera dubia
- Appalachian QuillwortIsoetes appalachiana
- Blue Mud PlantainHeteranthera limosa
- Sweet WoodreedCinna arundinacea
- Terrestrial Water-starwortCallitriche terrestris
- Winter QuillwortIsoetes hyemalis
- Boom's QuillwortIsoetes boomii
- Louisiana QuillwortIsoetes louisianensis
- Allegheny BrookfoamBoykinia aconitifolia
- American FeatherfoilHottonia inflata
- Carolina GrasswortLilaeopsis carolinensis
- Dwarf-burheadHelanthium tenellum
- Fivelobe CucumberCayaponia quinqueloba
- Golden Hedge-hyssopGratiola lutea
- Mayaca fluviatilisMayaca fluviatilis
- Narrowleaf PaleseedLeucospora multifida
- Roundfruit Hedge-hyssopGratiola virginiana
- Water PurslaneDidiplis diandra
- YellowrootXanthorhiza simplicissima
- Boykins Cluster PeaLackeya multiflora
- CupseedCalycocarpum lyonii
- Florida Hedge HyssopGratiola floridana
- Jamesianthus alabamensisJamesianthus alabamensis
- Missouri MaidenbushPhyllanthopsis phyllanthoides
- Ozark Tassel-rueTrautvetteria applanata
- Pinguicula primulifloraPinguicula primuliflora
- Autumn FernDryopteris erythrosora
- Baby JumpupMecardonia procumbens
- Begonia cucullataBegonia cucullata
- Common Water-primroseLudwigia hexapetala
- Curly PondweedPotamogeton crispus
- European Gray WillowSalix cinerea
- European VervainVerbena officinalis
- False Maiden-fernMacrothelypteris torresiana
- Fiddle Leaf TobaccoNicotiana repanda
- Fourspike HeliotropeEuploca procumbens
- Hygrophila polyspermaHygrophila polysperma
- Japanese MazusMazus pumilus
- Jerusalem ArtichokeHelianthus tuberosus
- Jerusalem CherrySolanum pseudocapsicum
- Lesser Balloon-vineCardiospermum halicacabum
- Ludwigia grandifloraLudwigia grandiflora
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.