Habitat in Louisiana
Coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated)
Tidal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts where the source does not say whether the water is fresh, brackish or salt. A stated salinity files the marsh under freshwater tidal marshes or salt and brackish marshes instead. NatureServe
- Plants
- 25
- Birds
- 113
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Louisiana. Not a planting list.
- Annual Saltmarsh AsterSymphyotrichum subulatum
- Late-flowering ThoroughwortEupatorium serotinum
- Sandpaper VervainVerbena scabra
- Southern Water-hempAmaranthus australis
- Maritime PokeweedPhytolacca americana var. rigida
- Broadwing SedgeCarex alata
- Shoreline SedgeCarex hyalinolepis
- Grassy ArrowheadSagittaria graminea
- Lanceleaf FrogfruitPhyla lanceolata
- Black NeedlerushJuncus roemerianus
- Bog RushJuncus biflorus
- Softstem BulrushSchoenoplectus tabernaemontani
- Giant BristlegrassSetaria magna
- False NettleBoehmeria cylindrica
- Sheathed FlatsedgeCyperus haspan
- Tall Horned BeaksedgeRhynchospora macrostachya
- Creeping SpikerushEleocharis fallax
- Carolina Canary-grassPhalaris caroliniana
- Lizard's-tailSaururus cernuus
- Virginia BugleweedLycopus virginicus
- Canadian ClearweedPilea pumila
- Carolina Sea-lavenderLimonium carolinianum
- Pink RedstemAmmannia latifolia
- Green Arrow-arumPeltandra virginica
- Common Three Square BulrushSchoenoplectus pungens var. pungens
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Louisiana. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 113
- American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- American OystercatcherHaematopus palliatus
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- American White PelicanPelecanus erythrorhynchos
- American WigeonAnas americana
- AnhingaAnhinga anhinga
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- 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 LoonGavia immer
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Eared GrebePodiceps nigricollis
- Eastern Brown PelicanPelecanus occidentalis carolinensis
- Eurasian WigeonAnas penelope
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Forster's TernSterna forsteri
- Fulvous Whistling-duckDendrocygna bicolor
- GadwallAnas strepera
- Glaucous GullLarus hyperboreus
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Great-tailed GrackleQuiscalus mexicanus
- Greater ScaupAythya marila
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Gull-billed TernGelochelidon nilotica
Sources
- NatureServe, ecological systems of the United States 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.