Habitat in Florida
Sounds, bays and tidal flats
Salt and brackish open water of sounds, bays and estuaries, with the mud and sand flats and seagrass beds that tides cover and uncover; the vegetated marsh is salt and brackish marshes. NatureServe
- Plants
- 10
- Birds
- 101
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Florida. Not a planting list.
- Black MangroveAvicennia germinans
- Sago PondweedStuckenia pectinata
- Seashore DropseedSporobolus virginicus
- SamphireGomphrena vermicularis
- American EelgrassVallisneria americana
- Widgeon-grassRuppia maritima
- Horned PondweedZannichellia palustris
- Shoal-grassHalodule wrightii
- Carolina GrasswortLilaeopsis carolinensis
- Turtle GrassThalassia testudinum
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Florida. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 101
- American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- American FlamingoPhoenicopterus ruber
- American OystercatcherHaematopus palliatus
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- American White PelicanPelecanus erythrorhynchos
- American WigeonAnas americana
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black SkimmerRynchops niger
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanus
- Blue-winged TealAnas discors
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphia
- Brown NoddyAnous stolidus
- Brown PelicanPelecanus occidentalis
- BuffleheadBucephala albeola
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
- Common GoldeneyeBucephala clangula
- Common LoonGavia immer
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Eastern Brown PelicanPelecanus occidentalis carolinensis
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Forster's TernSterna forsteri
- Fulvous Whistling-duckDendrocygna bicolor
- GadwallAnas strepera
- Glaucous GullLarus hyperboreus
- Glossy IbisPlegadis falcinellus
- Gray KingbirdTyrannus dominicensis
- Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Greater ScaupAythya marila
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Gull-billed TernGelochelidon nilotica
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- Horned GrebePodiceps auritus
Sources
- NatureServe, ecological systems of the United States 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.