Habitat in Arkansas
Swamps
Forested wetlands with standing water much of the year, such as cypress and gum swamps. Schafale
- Plants
- 223
- Birds
- 134
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Arkansas. Not a planting list.
- Purple MilkweedAsclepias purpurascens
- Rough-fruit AmaranthAmaranthus tuberculatus
- Southern Flat-top AsterDoellingeria sericocarpoides
- Greater Marsh St. John's-wortTriadenum walteri
- Swamp CottonwoodPopulus heterophylla
- Virginia Marsh St. John's-wortTriadenum virginicum
- Aquatic MilkweedAsclepias perennis
- Horsetail CrowngrassPaspalum fluitans
- Red MilkweedAsclepias rubra
- Northern SpicebushLindera benzoin
- PeppervineNekemias arborea
- Short Stemmed IrisIris brevicaulis
- Southern Winged LoosestrifeLythrum alatum var. lanceolatum
- Bent SedgeCarex styloflexa
- Bristly SedgeCarex comosa
- Carolina SedgeCarex caroliniana
- Cattail SedgeCarex typhina
- Cypress-knee SedgeCarex decomposita
- Cypress-swamp SedgeCarex joorii
- Drooping SedgeCarex prasina
- False Hop SedgeCarex lupuliformis
- Fescue SedgeCarex festucacea
- Fringed SedgeCarex crinita
- Giant SedgeCarex gigantea
- Gray's SedgeCarex grayi
- Hirsute SedgeCarex complanata
- Hop SedgeCarex lupulina
- Low Woodland SedgeCarex socialis
- Pointed Broom SedgeCarex scoparia
- Ravenfoot SedgeCarex crus-corvi
- Sallow SedgeCarex lurida
- Shoreline SedgeCarex hyalinolepis
- Smooth-sheath SedgeCarex laevivaginata
- Southern Waxy SedgeCarex glaucescens
- Squarrose SedgeCarex squarrosa
- Thicket SedgeCarex abscondita
- Tussock SedgeCarex stricta
- Weak Stellate SedgeCarex seorsa
- White-edge SedgeCarex debilis
- Woolly SedgeCarex pellita
- Broad Leaf Arrow HeadSagittaria latifolia var. latifolia
- Longbeak ArrowheadSagittaria australis
- Trailing LoosestrifeLysimachia radicans
- Virginia IrisIris virginica
- Climbing HydrangeaDecumaria barbara
- Swamp ButtercupRanunculus hispidus var. nitidus
- Anglestem Primrose-willowLudwigia leptocarpa
- Fragrant BedstrawGalium triflorum
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Arkansas. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 134
- Eurasian Collared-doveStreptopelia decaocto
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- 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
- Great-tailed GrackleQuiscalus mexicanus
- Greater White-fronted GooseAnser albifrons
- 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
- Lapland LongspurCalcarius lapponicus
- Least FlycatcherEmpidonax minimus
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
- Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolnii
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Louisiana WaterthrushSeiurus motacilla
- Magnolia WarblerDendroica magnolia
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Marsh WrenCistothorus palustris
- MerlinFalco columbarius
- Mississippi KiteIctinia mississippiensis
- Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
- Neotropic CormorantPhalacrocorax brasilianus
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
- Northern ParulaParula americana
- Northern Saw-whet OwlAegolius acadicus
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- Orchard OrioleIcterus spurius
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatus
- Pine SiskinCarduelis pinus
- 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)
Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.