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.
Most characteristic plants of this habitat 200
Natives first, plants found in fewer other habitats first.
- Dwarf BladderwortUtricularia olivacea
- Eastern Purple BladderwortUtricularia purpurea
- Humped BladderwortUtricularia gibba
- Leafy BladderwortUtricularia foliosa
- Striped BladderwortUtricularia striata
- Swollen BladderwortUtricularia inflata
- Carolina FanwortCabomba caroliniana
- Mecardonia acuminata var. microphyllaMecardonia acuminata var. microphylla
- Common HornwortCeratophyllum demersum
- Slender WaternymphNajas gracillima
- Spineless HornwortCeratophyllum echinatum
- Horned PondweedZannichellia palustris
- Water StargrassHeteranthera dubia
- Brazilian WatermealWolffia brasiliensis
- Colombian WatermealWolffia columbiana
- Strong QuillwortIsoetes valida
- American WaterwortElatine americana
- Florida MudmidgetWolffiella gladiata
- Pinguicula planifoliaPinguicula planifolia
- Coastal Plain WillowSalix caroliniana
- Myrtle HollyIlex myrtifolia
- Sarvis HollyIlex amelanchier
- Missouri VioletViola missouriensis
- ButtonbushCephalanthus occidentalis
- Arrowleaf TearthumbPersicaria sagittata
- Peelbark St. John's-wortHypericum fasciculatum
- KnotgrassPaspalum distichum
- Chapman's ArrowheadSagittaria chapmanii
- Delta ArrowheadSagittaria platyphylla
- Grassy ArrowheadSagittaria graminea
- Longbeak ArrowheadSagittaria australis
- Creeping EryngoEryngium prostratum
- Yellow Water-buttercupRanunculus flabellaris
- Canby's BulrushSchoenoplectus etuberculatus
- Woolgrass BulrushScirpus cyperinus
- Diffuse RushJuncus diffusissimus
- Manyhead RushJuncus polycephalos
- Weak RushJuncus debilis
- Spotted PondweedPotamogeton pulcher
- Longbeak BeaksedgeRhynchospora scirpoides
- American Bur-reedSparganium americanum
- Teal LovegrassEragrostis hypnoides
- Rooted SpikerushEleocharis radicans
- Dwarf SpikerushEleocharis parvula
- Horsetail SpikerushEleocharis equisetoides
- Sand SpikerushEleocharis montevidensis
- White SpikerushEleocharis albida
- Water-shieldBrasenia schreberi
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.
- 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
- Black-bellied Whistling-DuckDendrocygna autumnalis
- 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
- Mississippi KiteIctinia mississippiensis
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
- Sandhill CraneGrus canadensis
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Common Ground-doveColumbina passerina
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- Forster's TernSterna forsteri
Widespread birds also seen here (11)
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.

























































