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
- White-faced IbisPlegadis chihi
- Whooping CraneGrus americana
- WilletTringa semipalmata
- Wood StorkMycteria americana
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
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.