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.
- American Bur-reedSparganium americanum
- Eleocharis minimaEleocharis minima
- Eleocharis montanaEleocharis montana
- Hairlike SpikerushEleocharis nana
- Knotted SpikerushEleocharis interstincta
- Rooted SpikerushEleocharis radicans
- Websteria confervoidesEleocharis confervoides
- American LotusNelumbo lutea
- Blackfruit SpikerushEleocharis melanocarpa
- Correll's Yelloweyed GrassXyris correlliorum
- Dwarf SpikerushEleocharis parvula
- Gulf Coast SpikerushEleocharis cellulosa
- Horsetail SpikerushEleocharis equisetoides
- Needle SpikerushEleocharis acicularis
- Purple SpikerushEleocharis atropurpurea
- Robbins's SpikerushEleocharis robbinsii
- Sand SpikerushEleocharis montevidensis
- Slim SpikerushEleocharis elongata
- Viviparous SpikerushEleocharis vivipara
- White SpikerushEleocharis albida
- Bog Yellow-eyed-grassXyris difformis
- Cutleaf Water-milfoilMyriophyllum pinnatum
- Fringed Yellow-eyed-grassXyris fimbriata
- Irisleaf Yellow-eyed-grassXyris laxifolia var. iridifolia
- Lake CressRorippa aquatica
- Loose Water-milfoilMyriophyllum laxum
- Small's Yellow-eyed-grassXyris smalliana
- Southern Marsh YellowcressRorippa teres
- Variable-leaf Water-milfoilMyriophyllum heterophyllum
- Water-shieldBrasenia schreberi
- Golden-clubOrontium aquaticum
- Teal LovegrassEragrostis hypnoides
- Common DuckweedLemna minor
- Lesser DuckweedLemna aequinoctialis
- Little DuckweedLemna obscura
- Thalia geniculataThalia geniculata
- Valdivia DuckweedLemna valdiviana
- Swamp MilkwortSenega appendiculata
- Twig-rushCladium mariscoides
- American EelgrassVallisneria americana
- Lizard's-tailSaururus cernuus
- Catchfly CutgrassLeersia lenticularis
- Southern CutgrassLeersia hexandra
- Ovate Leaf False FiddleleafHydrolea ovata
- Carolina WiregrassAristida stricta
- Dwarf BladderwortUtricularia olivacea
- Eastern Purple BladderwortUtricularia purpurea
- Floating BladderwortUtricularia radiata
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Florida. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 137
- American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- American White PelicanPelecanus erythrorhynchos
- American WigeonAnas americana
- AnhingaAnhinga anhinga
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black RailLaterallus jamaicensis
- Black SkimmerRynchops niger
- Black TernChlidonias niger
- Black VultureCoragyps atratus
- Black-bellied PloverPluvialis squatarola
- Black-bellied Whistling-DuckDendrocygna autumnalis
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanus
- Blue-winged TealAnas discors
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphia
- BuffleheadBucephala albeola
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
- Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Common GoldeneyeBucephala clangula
- Common Ground-doveColumbina passerina
- Common LoonGavia immer
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- DunlinCalidris alpina
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
- Eurasian Collared-doveStreptopelia decaocto
- Eurasian WigeonAnas penelope
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
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.