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
- 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.