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
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Greater ScaupAythya marila
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Gull-billed TernGelochelidon nilotica
- Henslow's SparrowAmmodramus henslowii
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- Horned GrebePodiceps auritus
- KilldeerCharadrius vociferus
- King RailRallus elegans
- Laughing GullLeucophaeus atricilla
- Least BitternIxobrychus exilis
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Least TernSternula antillarum
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
- Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Little GullHydrocoloeus minutus
- Long-billed CurlewNumenius americanus
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Marbled GodwitLimosa fedoa
- Marsh WrenCistothorus palustris
- MerlinFalco columbarius
- Mottled DuckAnas fulvigula
- Nelson's Sharp-tailed SparrowAmmodramus nelsoni
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern ParulaParula americana
- 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
- Piping PloverCharadrius melodus
- Purple GallinulePorphyrio martinica
- Red KnotCalidris canutus
- Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
- Red-shouldered HawkButeo lineatus
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Red-throated LoonGavia stellata
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
- Reddish EgretEgretta rufescens
- RedheadAythya americana
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.