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.
- Nicotiana glaucaNicotiana glauca
- Northern CatalpaCatalpa speciosa
- One-row YellowcressNasturtium microphyllum
- Orange Day-lilyHemerocallis fulva
- Orange-eye Butterfly-bushBuddleja davidii
- Osage-orangeMaclura pomifera
- Palmer's AmaranthAmaranthus palmeri
- Poison-hemlockConium maculatum
- Pond Love GrassEragrostis japonica
- Porcelain-berryAmpelopsis glandulosa
- Puncture-vineTribulus terrestris
- Red Morning-gloryIpomoea coccinea
- Redroot AmaranthAmaranthus retroflexus
- Ricefield FlatsedgeCyperus iria
- Rorippa indicaRorippa indica
- Roundleaf CancerwortKickxia spuria
- Sharpleaf CancerwortKickxia elatine
- Silvery CockscombCelosia argentea
- South American VervainVerbena bonariensis
- Tradescantia fluminensisTradescantia fluminensis
- True Forget-me-notMyosotis scorpioides
- Turk's-cap MallowMalvaviscus drummondii
- Water SpeedwellVeronica anagallis-aquatica
- WatercressNasturtium officinale
- Weeping WillowSalix babylonica
- Yellow IrisIris pseudacorus
- Water LettucePistia stratiotes
- Brazilian WaterweedEgeria densa
- Chinese Tallow-treeTriadica sebifera
- Golden BambooPhyllostachys aurea
- Trifoliate OrangeCitrus trifoliata
- Alligator-weedAlternanthera philoxeroides
- Marsh DewflowerMurdannia keisak
- Parrot-featherMyriophyllum aquaticum
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 135
- Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
- Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- American Tree SparrowSpizella arborea
- American WoodcockScolopax minor
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Barred OwlStrix varia
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black VultureCoragyps atratus
- Black-and-White WarblerMniotilta varia
- Black-billed CuckooCoccyzus erythropthalmus
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
- Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Blue-winged WarblerVermivora pinus
- Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterus
- Brown CreeperCerthia americana
- Brown ThrasherToxostoma rufum
- Brown-headed CowbirdMolothrus ater
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Carolina ChickadeePoecile carolinensis
- Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Cerulean WarblerDendroica cerulea
- Chestnut-sided WarblerDendroica pensylvanica
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Downy WoodpeckerPicoides pubescens
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
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.