Habitat in Mississippi
Ponds, lakes and their shores
Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs. Schafale
- Plants
- 200
- Birds
- 93
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Mississippi. Not a planting list.
- Savanna PanicgrassPhanopyrum gymnocarpon
- Yellow Water-buttercupRanunculus flabellaris
- Common Three Square BulrushSchoenoplectus pungens var. pungens
- Glade LobeliaLobelia glandulosa
- American Halfchaff SedgeLipocarpha maculata
- Canby's BulrushSchoenoplectus etuberculatus
- Swaying BulrushSchoenoplectus subterminalis
- TitiCyrilla racemiflora
- Woolgrass BulrushScirpus cyperinus
- Creeping RushJuncus repens
- Diffuse RushJuncus diffusissimus
- Elliott's RushJuncus elliottii
- Leathery RushJuncus coriaceus
- Manyhead RushJuncus polycephalos
- Roundhead RushJuncus validus
- Weak RushJuncus debilis
- Whiteroot RushJuncus brachycarpus
- West Indian Meadow-beautyRhexia cubensis
- Le Conte's FlatsedgeCyperus lecontei
- Sheathed FlatsedgeCyperus haspan
- West Indian BeakrushRhynchospora brachychaeta
- American Barnyard GrassEchinochloa muricata var. microstachya
- Lake CressRorippa aquatica
- Largeleaf PondweedPotamogeton amplifolius
- Longleaf PondweedPotamogeton nodosus
- Ribbonleaf PondweedPotamogeton epihydrus
- Sago PondweedStuckenia pectinata
- Small PondweedPotamogeton pusillus
- Spotted PondweedPotamogeton pulcher
- Sugarcane PlumegrassErianthus giganteus
- Waterthread PondweedPotamogeton diversifolius
- American LotusNelumbo lutea
- Anglestem BeaksedgeRhynchospora caduca
- Chapman's BeaksedgeRhynchospora chapmanii
- Longbeak BeaksedgeRhynchospora scirpoides
- Shortbeak BeaksedgeRhynchospora nitens
- American Bur-reedSparganium americanum
- Southern Marsh YellowcressRorippa teres
- Bog Yellow-eyed-grassXyris difformis
- Chapman's Yellow-eyed-grassXyris chapmanii
- Cutleaf Water-milfoilMyriophyllum pinnatum
- Fringed Yellow-eyed-grassXyris fimbriata
- Loose Water-milfoilMyriophyllum laxum
- Roundleaf Water-hyssopBacopa rotundifolia
- Small's Yellow-eyed-grassXyris smalliana
- Teal LovegrassEragrostis hypnoides
- Variable-leaf Water-milfoilMyriophyllum heterophyllum
- Eleocharis flavescens var. flavescensEleocharis flavescens var. flavescens
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Mississippi. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 93
- American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- American White PelicanPelecanus erythrorhynchos
- American WigeonAnas americana
- AnhingaAnhinga anhinga
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black SkimmerRynchops niger
- Black TernChlidonias niger
- Black-bellied Whistling-DuckDendrocygna autumnalis
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanus
- Blue-winged TealAnas discors
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphia
- BuffleheadBucephala albeola
- Cackling GooseBranta hutchinsii
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Common GoldeneyeBucephala clangula
- Common Ground-doveColumbina passerina
- Common LoonGavia immer
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Eared GrebePodiceps nigricollis
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eurasian WigeonAnas penelope
- Forster's TernSterna forsteri
- GadwallAnas strepera
- Glaucous GullLarus hyperboreus
- Gray KingbirdTyrannus dominicensis
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Greater ScaupAythya marila
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- Horned GrebePodiceps auritus
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.