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.
- Paper NailwortParonychia minima
- Pinguicula planifoliaPinguicula planifolia
- Swamp RosemallowMuenchhusia grandiflora
- Tiny OrchidLepanthopsis melanantha
- Tongueshaped BogmatWolffiella lingulata
- Violet ButterwortPinguicula ionantha
- Asian WatermealWolffia globosa
- Black SpikerushEleocharis nigrescens
- Blue Mud PlantainHeteranthera limosa
- Brazilian WaterweedElodea densa
- Brittle WaternymphNajas minor
- BugseedgrassAlloteropsis cimicina
- Cape Blue WaterlilyNymphaea capensis var. zanzibariensis
- Chicken-spikeSphenoclea zeylanica
- Curly PondweedPotamogeton crispus
- FishgrassCabomba palaeformis
- Floating MannagrassGlyceria septentrionalis
- FloatingheartNymphoides humboldtiana
- Fringed False PimpernelBonnaya ciliata
- Giant Water Sensitive PlantAeschynomene fluitans
- Gray's Floating HeartNymphoides grayana
- Indian MarshweedLimnophila indica
- Japanese MazusMazus pumilus
- Lawn Marsh-pennywortHydrocotyle sibthorpioides
- Ludwigia grandifloraLudwigia grandiflora
- Marsilea muticaMarsilea mutica
- Narrowleaf PaleseedLeucospora multifida
- Nealley's SprangletopDinebra nealleyi
- OldfieldgrassAnthephora hermaphrodita
- Parrot-featherMyriophyllum aquaticum
- Paspalum acuminatumPaspalum acuminatum
- Pentodon pentandrusPentodon pentandrus
- Peruvian WatergrassLuziola peruviana
- Phalaris angustaPhalaris angusta
- Redroot AmaranthAmaranthus retroflexus
- Roundhead RushJuncus validus
- Sacred LotusNelumbo nucifera
- Slimflower LovegrassEragrostis gangetica
- Spiny False FiddleleafHydrolea capsularis
- Tropical DockRumex obovatus
- Water SnowflakeNymphoides indica
- Water-poppyHydrocleys nymphoides
- Weeping WillowSalix babylonica
- White Egyptian LotusNymphaea lotus
- Wild SugarcaneSaccharum spontaneum
- Wild WisteriaHygrophila difformis
- Yellow Floating-heartNymphoides peltata
- Yellow IrisIris pseudacorus
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.