Habitat in Alabama
Swamps
Forested wetlands with standing water much of the year, such as cypress and gum swamps. Schafale
- Plants
- 327
- Birds
- 142
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Alabama. Not a planting list.
- Nodding Ladies'-tressesSpiranthes cernua
- Oval Ladies TressesSpiranthes ovalis var. erostellata
- Canadian ClearweedPilea pumila
- Lesser ClearweedPilea fontana
- Seaside BrookweedSamolus parviflorus
- Shade MudflowerMicranthemum umbrosum
- Spanish-mossTillandsia usneoides
- White AvensGeum canadense
- Southern Blue MonkshoodAconitum uncinatum
- Spring AvensGeum vernum
- SupplejackBerchemia scandens
- American CupscaleSacciolepis striata
- Cream AvensGeum virginianum
- Hemlock Water-parsnipSium suave
- Log FernDryopteris celsa
- Southern Wood-fernDryopteris ludoviciana
- Stiff CowbaneOxypolis rigidior
- Carolina JessamineGelsemium sempervirens
- Curtiss's Star-grassHypoxis curtissii
- Dixie Wood-fernDryopteris × australis
- Selaginella ludovicianaSelaginella ludoviciana
- Creeping BurheadEchinodorus cordifolius
- Roughfruit ScaleseedSpermolepis divaricata
- Water-spider OrchidHabenaria repens
- Cliftonia monophyllaCliftonia monophylla
- Creeping SpotflowerAcmella repens
- Flattened PipewortEriocaulon compressum
- Hygrophila lacustrisHygrophila costata
- Spring Spider LilyHymenocallis liriosme
- Swamp JessamineGelsemium rankinii
- Ten Angled Pipewort; Hat Pin; Bog ButtonEriocaulon decangulare var. decangulare
- Buckwheat VineBrunnichia ovata
- Lax HornpodMitreola petiolata
- Flaccid Nut RushScleria flaccida
- Littlehead NutrushScleria oligantha
- Brazilian WatermealWolffia brasiliensis
- Colombian WatermealWolffia columbiana
- Jack In The PulpitArisaema pusillum
- Twoleaf MiterwortMitella diphylla
- Louisiana QuillwortIsoetes louisianensis
- Southern QuillwortIsoetes flaccida
- American FeatherfoilHottonia inflata
- American Golden-saxifrageChrysosplenium americanum
- Fen OrchidLiparis loeselii
- Fivelobe CucumberCayaponia quinqueloba
- Green-fly OrchidEpidendrum conopseum
- Marsh Mermaid-weedProserpinaca palustris
- Mayaca fluviatilisMayaca fluviatilis
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 142
- 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
- AnhingaAnhinga anhinga
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Barred OwlStrix varia
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black VultureCoragyps atratus
- Black-and-White WarblerMniotilta varia
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
- Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Blue-headed VireoVireo solitarius
- Blue-winged WarblerVermivora pinus
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
- Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterus
- Brown CreeperCerthia americana
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Carolina ChickadeePoecile carolinensis
- Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Cerulean WarblerDendroica cerulea
- Chestnut-sided WarblerDendroica pensylvanica
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- 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 Screech-owlMegascops asio
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- Eastern Wood-peweeContopus virens
- Eurasian Collared-doveStreptopelia decaocto
- Eurasian WigeonAnas penelope
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
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)
- Loblolly bay in a coastal swamp, Marian Ellis Rowan habitat picture
Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.