Habitat in Arkansas
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time. Schafale
- Plants
- 313
- Birds
- 161
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Arkansas. Not a planting list.
Most characteristic plants of this habitat 313
Natives first, plants found in fewer other habitats first.
- Rough-fruit AmaranthAmaranthus tuberculatus
- Spreading SandmatEuphorbia humistrata
- Aquatic MilkweedAsclepias perennis
- Spotted JewelweedImpatiens capensis
- Common HackberryCeltis occidentalis
- Northern SpicebushLindera benzoin
- Toothed SpurgeEuphorbia dentata
- James's SedgeCarex jamesii
- Broadwing SedgeCarex alata
- False Hop SedgeCarex lupuliformis
- Fescue SedgeCarex festucacea
- Frank's SedgeCarex frankii
- Graceful SedgeCarex gracillima
- Kidney-shape SedgeCarex reniformis
- Longs SedgeCarex longii
- Low Woodland SedgeCarex socialis
- Smooth-sheath SedgeCarex laevivaginata
- Yellowfruit SedgeCarex annectens
- Heartleaf PeppervineAmpelopsis cordata
- Climbing HydrangeaDecumaria barbara
- Flowering Yellow WoodsorrelOxalis florida
- Kidneyleaf ButtercupRanunculus abortivus
- Creeping EryngoEryngium prostratum
- Yellow Water-buttercupRanunculus flabellaris
- Woodland StonecropSedum ternatum
- Starry Solomons PumeMaianthemum stellatum
- Swamp LeatherflowerClematis crispa
- Hairy Woodland BromeBromus pubescens
- Common SweetleafSymplocos tinctoria
- False NettleBoehmeria cylindrica
- Allegheny Monkey FlowerMimulus ringens var. ringens
- Leafy BulrushScirpus polyphyllus
- Limestone BittercressCardamine douglassii
- Marsh ParsleyCyclospermum leptophyllum
- Sharpwing Monkey-flowerMimulus alatus
- Softstem BulrushSchoenoplectus tabernaemontani
- Swamp AgrimonyAgrimonia parviflora
- Mad-dog SkullcapScutellaria lateriflora
- Southern SkullcapScutellaria parvula var. australis
- Veined SkullcapScutellaria nervosa
- False DaisyEclipta prostrata
- American BittersweetCelastrus scandens
- Catchfly CutgrassLeersia lenticularis
- Sandbar LovegrassEragrostis frankii
- Water-shieldBrasenia schreberi
- Virginia BluebellsMertensia virginica
- New York FernAmauropelta noveboracensis
- Bushs MuhlyMuhlenbergia bushii
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Arkansas. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 161
- Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
- Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- American Tree SparrowSpizella arborea
- American WoodcockScolopax minor
- AnhingaAnhinga anhinga
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Barred OwlStrix varia
- Bell's VireoVireo bellii
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Bewick's WrenThryomanes bewickii
- Black VultureCoragyps atratus
- Black-and-White WarblerMniotilta varia
- Black-bellied Whistling-DuckDendrocygna autumnalis
- Black-billed CuckooCoccyzus erythropthalmus
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
- Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Blue-headed VireoVireo solitarius
- Blue-winged TealAnas discors
- Blue-winged WarblerVermivora pinus
- Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphia
- Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
- Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterus
- Brown CreeperCerthia americana
- Brown ThrasherToxostoma rufum
- Brown-headed CowbirdMolothrus ater
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- 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
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.