Habitat in Florida
Ponds, lakes and their shores
Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs. Schafale
- Plants
- 253
- Birds
- 137
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Florida. Not a planting list.
- Bald CypressTaxodium distichum
- Pond CypressTaxodium ascendens
- Broadleaf CattailTypha latifolia
- Glade LobeliaLobelia glandulosa
- MaidencaneHymenachne hemitomon
- Gaping GrassSteinchisma hians
- Justicia crassifoliaJusticia crassifolia
- Savanna PanicgrassPhanopyrum gymnocarpon
- Creeping EryngoEryngium prostratum
- American Halfchaff SedgeCyperus neotropicalis
- Brownfruit RushJuncus pelocarpus
- Canadian RushJuncus canadensis
- Creeping RushJuncus repens
- Cyperus drummondiiCyperus drummondii
- Diffuse RushJuncus diffusissimus
- Elliott's RushJuncus elliottii
- Leathery RushJuncus coriaceus
- Low SpikesedgeCyperus hortensis
- Manyhead RushJuncus polycephalos
- Smallflower Halfchaff SedgeCyperus subsquarrosus
- Weak RushJuncus debilis
- Canby's BulrushSchoenoplectus etuberculatus
- Florida BeaksedgeRhynchospora eximia
- Rhexia parvifloraRhexia parviflora
- Swaying BulrushSchoenoplectus subterminalis
- TitiCyrilla racemiflora
- West's FlaxLinum westii
- Woolgrass BulrushScirpus cyperinus
- Anglestem BeaksedgeRhynchospora caduca
- Chapman's BeaksedgeRhynchospora chapmanii
- Fragrant SpikesedgeCyperus sesquiflorus
- Le Conte's FlatsedgeCyperus lecontei
- Longbeak BeaksedgeRhynchospora scirpoides
- Sheathed FlatsedgeCyperus haspan
- Shortbeak BeaksedgeRhynchospora nitens
- Tropical FlatsedgeCyperus surinamensis
- West Indian Meadow-beautyRhexia cubensis
- Clasping-leaf PondweedPotamogeton perfoliatus
- Florida SandreedSporobolus vaseyi
- Illinois PondweedPotamogeton illinoensis
- Longleaf PondweedPotamogeton nodosus
- Ribbonleaf PondweedPotamogeton epihydrus
- Sago PondweedStuckenia pectinata
- Small PondweedPotamogeton pusillus
- Smallhead Marsh-elderIva microcephala
- Spotted PondweedPotamogeton pulcher
- Sugarcane PlumegrassSaccharum giganteum
- Waterthread PondweedPotamogeton diversifolius
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Florida. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 137
- 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 Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Greater ScaupAythya marila
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- Horned GrebePodiceps auritus
- Lapland LongspurCalcarius lapponicus
- Least BitternIxobrychus exilis
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Least TernSternula antillarum
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
- Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
- LimpkinAramus guarauna
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Little GullHydrocoloeus minutus
- Long-billed CurlewNumenius americanus
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Marsh WrenCistothorus palustris
- MerlinFalco columbarius
- Mississippi KiteIctinia mississippiensis
- Mottled DuckAnas fulvigula
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Painted BuntingPasserina ciris
- Palm WarblerDendroica palmarum
- Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
- Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podiceps
- Pine SiskinCarduelis pinus
- Piping PloverCharadrius melodus
- Prothonotary WarblerProtonotaria citrea
- Purple GallinulePorphyrio martinica
- Purple MartinProgne subis
- Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
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)
- Georgia pond and emergent wetland, Robert 'Bob' Hynes habitat picture
Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.