Habitat in Arkansas
Streams, rivers and their banks
Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals. Schafale
- Plants
- 199
- Birds
- 129
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Arkansas. Not a planting list.
- Black WillowSalix nigra
- Chickasaw PlumPrunus angustifolia
- Coastal Plain WillowSalix caroliniana
- Heart Leaf WillowSalix eriocephala
- Hortulan PlumPrunus hortulana
- Mexican PlumPrunus mexicana
- Silky WillowSalix sericea
- Jerusalem ArtichokeHelianthus tuberosus
- Grass-leaved Flat-top GoldenrodEuthamia graminifolia
- Smooth BeggarticksBidens laevis
- Bluff OakQuercus austrina
- Shingle OakQuercus imbricaria
- Smooth BlackhawViburnum prunifolium
- Black MapleAcer nigrum
- Golden RagwortPackera aurea
- Rusty BlackhawViburnum rufidulum
- Silver MapleAcer saccharinum
- Smooth Arrow WoodViburnum recognitum
- Southern ArrowwoodViburnum dentatum
- Blue MistflowerConoclinium coelestinum
- Pear HawthornCrataegus calpodendron
- Limerock Arrow WoodViburnum bracteatum
- YankeeweedEupatorium compositifolium
- Blue VervainVerbena hastata
- ButtonbushCephalanthus occidentalis
- Dark Indigo BushAmorpha nitens
- Swamp SmartweedPersicaria hydropiperoides
- Downy ArrowwoodViburnum rafinesquianum
- False Indigo-bushAmorpha fruticosa
- LeConte's VioletViola affinis
- Primrose-leaf VioletViola primulifolia
- Red GrapeVitis palmata
- Bracted VervainVerbena bracteata
- September ElmUlmus serotina
- Climbing RoseRosa setigera
- Common ElderberrySambucus nigra subsp. canadensis
- Erect KnotweedPolygonum erectum
- Giant IronweedVernonia gigantea
- Green AshFraxinus pennsylvanica
- Swamp RoseRosa palustris
- PecanCarya illinoinensis
- River BirchBetula nigra
- Canadian MilkvetchAstragalus canadensis var. canadensis
- Early St. John's-wortHypericum nudiflorum
- Lanceleaf GreenbrierSmilax smallii
- Redroot AmaranthAmaranthus retroflexus
- Spreading SandmatEuphorbia humistrata
- Pale JewelweedImpatiens pallida
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Arkansas. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 129
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- Eastern Wood-peweeContopus virens
- Eurasian Collared-doveStreptopelia decaocto
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Evening GrosbeakCoccothraustes vespertinus
- Fox SparrowPasserella iliaca
- 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
- 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 FlycatcherEmpidonax minimus
- Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolnii
- Long-eared OwlAsio otus
- Louisiana WaterthrushSeiurus motacilla
- Magnolia WarblerDendroica magnolia
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Marsh WrenCistothorus palustris
- Mississippi KiteIctinia mississippiensis
- Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
- Northern ParulaParula americana
- Northern Saw-whet OwlAegolius acadicus
- Orange-crowned WarblerVermivora celata
- Orchard OrioleIcterus spurius
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
- Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatus
- Pine SiskinCarduelis pinus
- Prothonotary WarblerProtonotaria citrea
- Purple FinchCarpodacus purpureus
- Red-bellied WoodpeckerMelanerpes carolinus
- Red-breasted NuthatchSitta canadensis
- Red-headed WoodpeckerMelanerpes erythrocephalus
- Red-shouldered HawkButeo lineatus
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
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.