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
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- Fox SparrowPasserella iliaca
- Golden-crowned KingletRegulus satrapa
- Gray CatbirdDumetella carolinensis
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Hairy WoodpeckerPicoides villosus
- Henslow's SparrowAmmodramus henslowii
- Hermit ThrushCatharus guttatus
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- Hooded WarblerWilsonia citrina
- Horned GrebePodiceps auritus
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- Kentucky WarblerOporornis formosus
- King RailRallus elegans
- Least FlycatcherEmpidonax minimus
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
- Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolnii
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- Louisiana WaterthrushSeiurus motacilla
- Magnolia WarblerDendroica magnolia
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Marsh WrenCistothorus palustris
- MerlinFalco columbarius
- Mississippi KiteIctinia mississippiensis
- Mottled DuckAnas fulvigula
- Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
- Northern ParulaParula americana
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Northern Saw-whet OwlAegolius acadicus
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- Northern WaterthrushSeiurus noveboracensis
- Orchard OrioleIcterus spurius
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
- Painted BuntingPasserina ciris
- Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
- Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatus
- Prothonotary WarblerProtonotaria citrea
- Purple FinchCarpodacus purpureus
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.