Habitat in Louisiana
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time. Schafale
- Plants
- 267
- Birds
- 142
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Louisiana. Not a planting list.
- Kidney-shape SedgeCarex reniformis
- Limestone Meadow SedgeCarex granularis
- Longs SedgeCarex longii
- Louisiana SedgeCarex louisianica
- Low Woodland SedgeCarex socialis
- Sharp-scale SedgeCarex oxylepis
- Squarrose SedgeCarex squarrosa
- Thicket SedgeCarex abscondita
- Yellowfruit SedgeCarex annectens
- Northern CatalpaCatalpa speciosa
- Southern CatalpaCatalpa bignonioides
- Common PawpawAsimina triloba
- Flowering Yellow WoodsorrelOxalis florida
- Lyreleaf SageSalvia lyrata
- Smooth Hedge-nettleStachys tenuifolia
- Common Cup-plantSilphium perfoliatum
- Creeping DayflowerCommelina diffusa
- Virginia DayflowerCommelina virginica
- Bald CypressTaxodium distichum
- Black WalnutJuglans nigra
- Fragrant BedstrawGalium triflorum
- Pale DockRumex altissimus
- Climbing HydrangeaDecumaria barbara
- Creeping EryngoEryngium prostratum
- Kidneyleaf ButtercupRanunculus abortivus
- Bosc's WitchgrassDichanthelium boscii
- Gaping GrassSteinchisma hians
- Savanna PanicgrassPhanopyrum gymnocarpon
- Bristly ButtercupRanunculus hispidus
- Smooth False-buttonweedSpermacoce glabra
- Smooth PhloxPhlox glaberrima
- Swamp LeatherflowerClematis crispa
- Yellow Water-buttercupRanunculus flabellaris
- Great Blue LobeliaLobelia siphilitica
- Heartleaf NettleUrtica chamaedryoides
- Southern LobeliaLobelia amoena
- Trumpet-creeperCampsis radicans
- Common Golden-AlexandersZizia aurea
- Common SweetleafSymplocos tinctoria
- Softstem BulrushSchoenoplectus tabernaemontani
- Hairy Woodland BromeBromus pubescens
- Compact DodderCuscuta compacta
- False NettleBoehmeria cylindrica
- Giant CaneArundinaria gigantea
- HoneyvineCynanchum laeve
- Allegheny Monkey FlowerMimulus ringens var. ringens
- Sharpwing Monkey-flowerMimulus alatus
- American GroundnutApios americana
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Louisiana. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 142
- Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- American WoodcockScolopax minor
- AnhingaAnhinga anhinga
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
- Barred OwlStrix varia
- Bell's VireoVireo bellii
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black VultureCoragyps atratus
- Black-and-White WarblerMniotilta varia
- Black-bellied Whistling-DuckDendrocygna autumnalis
- Black-chinned HummingbirdArchilochus alexandri
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
- Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Blue-headed VireoVireo solitarius
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphia
- Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
- Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterus
- Brown CreeperCerthia americana
- Brown ThrasherToxostoma rufum
- Brown-headed CowbirdMolothrus ater
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Carolina ChickadeePoecile carolinensis
- Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common Ground-doveColumbina passerina
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Downy WoodpeckerPicoides pubescens
- Eastern BluebirdSialia sialis
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.