Habitat in Florida
Salt and brackish marshes
Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides. Schafale
- Plants
- 56
- Birds
- 136
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Florida. Not a planting list.
- Perennial Saltmarsh AsterSymphyotrichum tenuifolium
- Smallfruit BeggarticksBidens mitis
- Saltmarsh Morning-gloryIpomoea sagittata
- Groundsel-treeBaccharis halimifolia
- Common WaxmyrtleMorella cerifera
- Virginia PlantainPlantago virginica
- Coreopsis integrifoliaCoreopsis integrifolia
- Fewflower MilkweedAsclepias lanceolata
- Lantana sandersii var. sandersiiLantana sandersii var. sandersii
- Seashore CrowngrassPaspalum vaginatum
- Wand LoosestrifeLythrum lineare
- Weatherby's ArrowheadSagittaria graminea var. weatherbiana
- Maritime BluestemAndropogon glomeratus var. pumilus
- Tree Seaside OxeyeBorrichia arborescens
- Sea OxeyeBorrichia frutescens
- Marsh EryngoEryngium aquaticum
- Cyperus planifoliusCyperus planifolius
- Delta BulrushSchoenoplectus deltarum
- Mangrove FlatsedgeCyperus ligularis
- Black MangroveAvicennia germinans
- Olney's ThreesquareSchoenoplectus americanus
- Saltmarsh BulrushBolboschoenus robustus
- Four-angle FlatsedgeCyperus tetragonus
- Saltmarsh CordgrassSpartina alterniflora
- Whorled DropseedSporobolus pyramidatus
- Lycium carolinianumLycium carolinianum
- Seashore DropseedSporobolus virginicus
- Dwarf SpikerushEleocharis parvula
- Gulf Coast SpikerushEleocharis cellulosa
- White SpikerushEleocharis albida
- Shoreline Sea-purslaneSesuvium portulacastrum
- Slender Sea-purslaneSesuvium maritimum
- ShoregrassDistichlis littoralis
- Elliott's LovegrassEragrostis elliottii
- SawgrassCladium jamaicense
- Twig-rushCladium mariscoides
- Florida YellowtopsFlaveria floridana
- Salt-marsh PinkSabatia stellaris
- Batis maritimaBatis maritima
- Eriochloa michauxii var. michauxiiEriochloa michauxii var. michauxii
- Hemlock Water-parsnipSium suave
- Perennial GlasswortSalicornia ambigua
- Golden Leather FernAcrostichum aureum
- Roughfruit ScaleseedSpermolepis divaricata
- Cowhorn OrchidCyrtopodium punctatum
- Fimbristylis castaneaFimbristylis spadicea
- Godfrey's SpiderlilyHymenocallis godfreyi
- Wormvine OrchidVanilla barbellata
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Florida. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 136
- American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American FlamingoPhoenicopterus ruber
- American OystercatcherHaematopus palliatus
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- 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-bellied Whistling-DuckDendrocygna autumnalis
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanus
- Blue-headed VireoVireo solitarius
- Blue-winged TealAnas discors
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphia
- Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
- Brown PelicanPelecanus occidentalis
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common LoonGavia immer
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- DunlinCalidris alpina
- Eastern Brown PelicanPelecanus occidentalis carolinensis
- Eurasian WigeonAnas penelope
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- Forster's TernSterna forsteri
- Fulvous Whistling-duckDendrocygna bicolor
- GadwallAnas strepera
- Glaucous GullLarus hyperboreus
- Glossy IbisPlegadis falcinellus
- Gray KingbirdTyrannus dominicensis
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
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.