Habitat in Louisiana
Ponds, lakes and their shores
Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs. Schafale
- Plants
- 162
- Birds
- 98
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Louisiana. Not a planting list.
Most characteristic plants of this habitat 162
Natives first, plants found in fewer other habitats first.
- Ludwigia grandifloraLudwigia grandiflora
- Ovate Leaf False FiddleleafHydrolea ovata
- Redroot AmaranthAmaranthus retroflexus
- Upright BurheadEchinodorus berteroi
- MaidencanePanicum hemitomon
- Weeping WillowSalix babylonica
- Common Three Square BulrushSchoenoplectus pungens var. pungens
- Brittle WaternymphNajas minor
- Eurasian Water-milfoilMyriophyllum spicatum
- Curly PondweedPotamogeton crispus
- Asian RiceOryza sativa
- Dotted DuckmeatSpirodela punctata
- Brazilian WaterweedEgeria densa
- Common Water-hyacinthEichhornia crassipes
- Giant SalviniaSalvinia molesta
- Alligator-weedAlternanthera philoxeroides
- Parrot-featherMyriophyllum aquaticum
- Yellow IrisIris pseudacorus
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Louisiana. Shared habitat, not food.
Most characteristic birds of this habitat 86
Ranked by how much of their habitat model this habitat is.
- Black TernChlidonias niger
- BuffleheadBucephala albeola
- Common GoldeneyeBucephala clangula
- Snowy PloverCharadrius nivosus
- Western Snowy PloverCharadrius nivosus nivosus
- Interior Least TernSternula antillarum athalassos
- Purple MartinProgne subis
- Black SkimmerRynchops niger
- Cackling GooseBranta hutchinsii
- Eurasian WigeonAnas penelope
- Greater ScaupAythya marila
- SanderlingCalidris alba
- Thayer's GullLarus thayeri
- Western SandpiperCalidris mauri
- Common LoonGavia immer
- Glaucous GullLarus hyperboreus
- Glossy IbisPlegadis falcinellus
- Least TernSternula antillarum
- Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podiceps
- Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
- Ross's GooseChen rossii
- Snow GooseChen caerulescens
- Tricolored HeronEgretta tricolor
- American White PelicanPelecanus erythrorhynchos
- American WigeonAnas americana
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanus
- Eared GrebePodiceps nigricollis
- Least BitternIxobrychus exilis
- RedheadAythya americana
- Ruddy DuckOxyura jamaicensis
- Surf ScoterMelanitta perspicillata
- White-faced IbisPlegadis chihi
- Wood StorkMycteria americana
- Blue-winged TealAnas discors
- American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
- AnhingaAnhinga anhinga
- Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
- GadwallAnas strepera
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- Piping PloverCharadrius melodus
- Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopus
- Wood DuckAix sponsa
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphia
- Greater White-fronted GooseAnser albifrons
- Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
Widespread birds also seen here (12)
Found in many habitats here, so not listed above.
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.