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.
- Bristly ButtercupRanunculus hispidus
- Creeping EryngoEryngium prostratum
- Rock ButtercupRanunculus micranthus
- Yellow Water-buttercupRanunculus flabellaris
- Bald CypressTaxodium distichum
- Bosc's WitchgrassDichanthelium boscii
- Gaping GrassSteinchisma hians
- Great Blue LobeliaLobelia siphilitica
- Savanna PanicgrassPhanopyrum gymnocarpon
- Woodland StonecropSedum ternatum
- Creeping DayflowerCommelina diffusa
- Heartleaf NettleUrtica chamaedryoides
- Starry Solomons PumeMaianthemum stellatum
- Swamp LeatherflowerClematis crispa
- Virginia DayflowerCommelina virginica
- Nodding Rattlesnake-rootPrenanthes crepidinea
- Red MulberryMorus rubra
- Hairy Woodland BromeBromus pubescens
- Nottoway Valley BromeBromus nottowayanus
- Smooth False-buttonweedSpermacoce glabra
- Trumpet-creeperCampsis radicans
- Common SweetleafSymplocos tinctoria
- Largeseed Forget-me-notMyosotis macrosperma
- Giant CaneArundinaria gigantea
- False NettleBoehmeria cylindrica
- Great Indian-plantainArnoglossum reniforme
- Allegheny Monkey FlowerMimulus ringens var. ringens
- American GroundnutApios americana
- Clustered FescueFestuca paradoxa
- Leafy BulrushScirpus polyphyllus
- Limestone BittercressCardamine douglassii
- Marsh ParsleyCyclospermum leptophyllum
- River OatsChasmanthium latifolium
- Sharpwing Monkey-flowerMimulus alatus
- Softstem BulrushSchoenoplectus tabernaemontani
- Swamp AgrimonyAgrimonia parviflora
- HoneyvineCynanchum laeve
- Hyssop SkullcapScutellaria integrifolia
- Mad-dog SkullcapScutellaria lateriflora
- Osage-orangeMaclura pomifera
- Southern SkullcapScutellaria parvula var. australis
- Veined SkullcapScutellaria nervosa
- Big CarpetgrassAxonopus furcatus
- Carolina Canary-grassPhalaris caroliniana
- Compact DodderCuscuta compacta
- CrossvineBignonia capreolata
- Cusp DodderCuscuta cuspidata
- False DaisyEclipta prostrata
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Arkansas. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 161
- Common Ground-doveColumbina passerina
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Downy WoodpeckerPicoides pubescens
- Eastern BluebirdSialia sialis
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- Eastern Wood-peweeContopus virens
- Eurasian Collared-doveStreptopelia decaocto
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Evening GrosbeakCoccothraustes vespertinus
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- Forster's TernSterna forsteri
- Fox SparrowPasserella iliaca
- GadwallAnas strepera
- 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
- Great-tailed GrackleQuiscalus mexicanus
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Hairy WoodpeckerPicoides villosus
- Harris's SparrowZonotrichia querula
- Hermit ThrushCatharus guttatus
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- Hooded WarblerWilsonia citrina
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- Kentucky WarblerOporornis formosus
- Least BitternIxobrychus exilis
- Least FlycatcherEmpidonax minimus
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
- Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
- Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolnii
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Long-eared OwlAsio otus
- Louisiana WaterthrushSeiurus motacilla
- Magnolia WarblerDendroica magnolia
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
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.