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.
- Mudbank CrowngrassPaspalum dissectum
- Clasping-leaf PondweedPotamogeton perfoliatus
- Loose Water-milfoilMyriophyllum laxum
- Slim SpikerushEleocharis elongata
- Viviparous SpikerushEleocharis vivipara
- Common BladderwortUtricularia macrorhiza
- Leafy BladderwortUtricularia foliosa
- Myrtle HollyIlex myrtifolia
- Water TupeloNyssa aquatica
- Peelbark St. John's-wortHypericum fasciculatum
- Southern Marsh St. John's-wortTriadenum tubulosum
- Warty SedgeCarex verrucosa
- Chapman's ArrowheadSagittaria chapmanii
- Roundhead RushJuncus validus
- Whiteroot RushJuncus brachycarpus
- Canby's BulrushSchoenoplectus etuberculatus
- Lake CressRorippa aquatica
- Longbeak BeaksedgeRhynchospora scirpoides
- Blackfruit SpikerushEleocharis melanocarpa
- Cutleaf Water-milfoilMyriophyllum pinnatum
- Horsetail SpikerushEleocharis equisetoides
- Longleaf PondweedPotamogeton nodosus
- Purple SpikerushEleocharis atropurpurea
- Ribbonleaf PondweedPotamogeton epihydrus
- Sago PondweedStuckenia pectinata
- Small PondweedPotamogeton pusillus
- Small's Yellow-eyed-grassXyris smalliana
- Waterthread PondweedPotamogeton diversifolius
- Roundleaf Water-hyssopBacopa rotundifolia
- Floating MannagrassGlyceria septentrionalis
- Common DuckweedLemna minor
- Lesser DuckweedLemna aequinoctialis
- Little DuckweedLemna obscura
- Minute DuckweedLemna perpusilla
- Valdivia DuckweedLemna valdiviana
- Southern CutgrassLeersia hexandra
- Greater DuckweedSpirodela polyrhiza
- Eastern Purple BladderwortUtricularia purpurea
- Floating BladderwortUtricularia radiata
- Humped BladderwortUtricularia gibba
- Striped BladderwortUtricularia striata
- Swollen BladderwortUtricularia inflata
- Carolina FanwortCabomba caroliniana
- Dwarf-burheadEchinodorus tenellus
- Common HornwortCeratophyllum demersum
- Spineless HornwortCeratophyllum echinatum
- Water DawnflowerStylisma aquatica
- Horned PondweedZannichellia palustris
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Louisiana. Shared habitat, not food.
Most characteristic birds of this habitat 0
Widespread birds also seen here (6)
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.