Habitat in Florida
Pocosins and bay forests
Dense evergreen shrub wetlands and bay forests on wet, acid peat of the Coastal Plain. Schafale
- Plants
- 73
- Birds
- 93
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Florida. Not a planting list.
- Slender-fruit BeaksedgeRhynchospora leptocarpa
- Fringed Meadow-beautyRhexia petiolata
- Savanna Meadow-beautyRhexia alifanus
- FringetreeChionanthus virginicus
- Yellow PitcherplantSarracenia flava
- Twisted SpikerushEleocharis tortilis
- Golden-clubOrontium aquaticum
- Elliott's GentianGentiana catesbaei
- Litteleaf MilkwortSenega brevifolia
- Low Pinebarren MilkwortSenega ramosa
- Nuttall's MilkwortSenega nuttallii
- Striped GentianGentiana villosa
- Coastal DoghobbleLeucothoe axillaris
- Netted Chain-fernWoodwardia areolata
- Virginia Chain-fernWoodwardia virginica
- Four-angle Rose-gentianSabatia quadrangula
- Lanceleaf Rose-gentianSabatia difformis
- Spoonleaf SundewDrosera intermedia
- Swamp HornpodMitreola sessilifolia
- Sandbog Death-camasZigadenus glaberrimus
- Green Arrow-arumPeltandra virginica
- Hairy Umbrella SedgeFuirena squarrosa
- Rush-featherlingPleea tenuifolia
- White Arrow-arumPeltandra sagittifolia
- Yellow ScrewstemBartonia virginica
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Florida. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 93
- Marsh WrenCistothorus palustris
- Mississippi KiteIctinia mississippiensis
- Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- Northern WaterthrushSeiurus noveboracensis
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Painted BuntingPasserina ciris
- Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
- Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatus
- Prothonotary WarblerProtonotaria citrea
- Purple FinchCarpodacus purpureus
- Purple GallinulePorphyrio martinica
- Red-bellied WoodpeckerMelanerpes carolinus
- Red-shouldered HawkButeo lineatus
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
- Ruby-crowned KingletRegulus calendula
- Ruby-throated HummingbirdArchilochus colubris
- Rusty BlackbirdEuphagus carolinus
- Sandhill CraneGrus canadensis
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
- Song SparrowMelospiza melodia
- SoraPorzana carolina
- Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
- Swainson's WarblerLimnothlypis swainsonii
- Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- Tufted TitmouseBaeolophus bicolor
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- Virginia RailRallus limicola
- White IbisEudocimus albus
- White-eyed VireoVireo griseus
- White-throated SparrowZonotrichia albicollis
- Wood DuckAix sponsa
- Wood ThrushHylocichla mustelina
- Yellow-bellied SapsuckerSphyrapicus varius
- Yellow-billed CuckooCoccyzus americanus
- Yellow-breasted ChatIcteria virens
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
- Yellow-rumped WarblerDendroica coronata
- Yellow-throated WarblerDendroica dominica
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.