Habitat in Louisiana
Freshwater marshes
Open, herb-covered wetlands with fresh, non-tidal water. Schafale
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Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Louisiana. Not a planting list.
- Grassy ArrowheadSagittaria graminea
- Longbeak ArrowheadSagittaria australis
- Climbing HempweedMikania scandens
- Virginia IrisIris virginica
- Broadleaf CattailTypha latifolia
- Florida DockRumex floridanus
- Pale DockRumex altissimus
- Southern CattailTypha domingensis
- Stalked PanicgrassPanicum rigidulum subsp. elongatum
- Blue WitchgrassDichanthelium caerulescens
- Gaping GrassSteinchisma hians
- Lanceleaf FrogfruitPhyla lanceolata
- Rough WitchgrassDichanthelium leucothrix
- Savanna PanicgrassPhanopyrum gymnocarpon
- Low SpearwortRanunculus pusillus
- Mississippi ButtercupRanunculus laxicaulis
- Swamp LeatherflowerClematis crispa
- Water-plantain SpearwortRanunculus ambigens
- Bighead RushJuncus megacephalus
- Southern LobeliaLobelia amoena
- California BulrushSchoenoplectus californicus
- Dark-green BulrushScirpus atrovirens
- Georgia BulrushScirpus georgianus
- Looseflower Water-willowJusticia ovata
- Saltmarsh BulrushBolboschoenus robustus
- Softstem BulrushSchoenoplectus tabernaemontani
- Woolgrass BulrushScirpus cyperinus
- Giant BristlegrassSetaria magna
- Marsh BristlegrassSetaria parviflora
- Compact DodderCuscuta compacta
- Gulf Coast Swallow-wortCynanchum angustifolium
- Nash's Meadow-beautyRhexia nashii
- False NettleBoehmeria cylindrica
- Fragrant FlatsedgeCyperus odoratus
- Green FlatsedgeCyperus virens
- Many-spike FlatsedgeCyperus polystachyos
- Marsh FlatsedgeCyperus pseudovegetus
- Narrow PlumegrassErianthus strictus
- Redroot FlatsedgeCyperus erythrorhizos
- Sheathed FlatsedgeCyperus haspan
- Sugarcane PlumegrassErianthus giganteus
- Tropical FlatsedgeCyperus surinamensis
- Yellow FlatsedgeCyperus flavescens
- Allegheny Monkey FlowerMimulus ringens var. ringens
- Sharpwing Monkey-flowerMimulus alatus
- Mingled BeakrushRhynchospora mixta
- Swamp-forest BeaksedgeRhynchospora decurrens
- Tall Horned BeaksedgeRhynchospora macrostachya
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Louisiana. Shared habitat, not food.
No wildlife recorded in this habitat in Louisiana yet.
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.