Habitat in Mississippi
Sounds, bays and tidal flats
Salt and brackish open water of sounds, bays and estuaries, with the mud and sand flats and seagrass beds that tides cover and uncover; the vegetated marsh is salt and brackish marshes. NatureServe
- Plants
- 11
- Birds
- 92
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Mississippi. Not a planting list.
Most characteristic plants of this habitat 11
Natives first, plants found in fewer other habitats first.
- Shoal-grassHalodule wrightii
- Turtle GrassThalassia testudinum
- Heartleaf PlantainPlantago cordata
- Sago PondweedStuckenia pectinata
- Horned PondweedZannichellia palustris
- American WaterwortElatine americana
- Seashore DropseedSporobolus virginicus
- Black MangroveAvicennia germinans
- American EelgrassVallisneria americana
- Widgeon-grassRuppia maritima
- Carolina GrasswortLilaeopsis carolinensis
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Mississippi. Shared habitat, not food.
Most characteristic birds of this habitat 82
Ranked by how much of their habitat model this habitat is.
- Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatus
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- Gray KingbirdTyrannus dominicensis
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
- Piping PloverCharadrius melodus
- Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopus
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Horned GrebePodiceps auritus
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- Wood StorkMycteria americana
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
- Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
- White IbisEudocimus albus
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Mottled DuckAnas fulvigula
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- Purple GallinulePorphyrio martinica
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
- Sandhill CraneGrus canadensis
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- American CootFulica americana
Widespread birds also seen here (10)
Found in many habitats here, so not listed above.
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.