Habitat in Florida
Freshwater tidal marshes
Marshes along tidal rivers where the water is fresh but rises and falls with the tide. Schafale
- Plants
- 21
- Birds
- 124
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Florida. Not a planting list.
- Hairypod CowpeaVigna luteola
- Saltmarsh Water-hempAmaranthus cannabinus
- Bushy SeedboxLudwigia alternifolia
- Globefruit SeedboxLudwigia sphaerocarpa
- Long Beach SeedboxLudwigia brevipes
- Climbing AsterSymphyotrichum carolinianum
- Fox SedgeCarex vulpinoidea
- Swamp DockRumex verticillatus
- Broadleaf CattailTypha latifolia
- St. Augustine GrassStenotaphrum secundatum
- Big CordgrassSpartina cynosuroides
- Coastal Water-hyssopBacopa monnieri
- American LotusNelumbo lutea
- Beaked SpikerushEleocharis rostellata
- Small-leaved Meadow-rueThalictrum macrostylum
- Golden-clubOrontium aquaticum
- Elliott's LovegrassEragrostis elliottii
- Seashore MallowKosteletzkya pentacarpos
- Godfrey's SandwortSabulina paludicola
- Eastern GrasswortLilaeopsis chinensis
- South American SeedboxLudwigia bonariensis
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Florida. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 124
- Sandhill CraneGrus canadensis
- Savannah SparrowPasserculus sandwichensis
- Seaside SparrowAmmodramus maritimus
- Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatus
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus
- Short-tailed HawkButeo brachyurus
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
- Song SparrowMelospiza melodia
- SoraPorzana carolina
- Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
- Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopus
- Surf ScoterMelanitta perspicillata
- Swallow-tailed KiteElanoides forficatus
- Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- Tricolored HeronEgretta tricolor
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- Virginia RailRallus limicola
- White IbisEudocimus albus
- Whooping CraneGrus americana
- Wilson's SnipeGallinago delicata
- Wood DuckAix sponsa
- Wood StorkMycteria americana
- Yellow RailCoturnicops noveboracensis
- Yellow-breasted ChatIcteria virens
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
- Yellow-rumped WarblerDendroica coronata
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.