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.
- Eurasian Water-milfoilMyriophyllum spicatum
- Asian RiceOryza sativa
- Dotted DuckmeatSpirodela punctata
- Brazilian WaterweedEgeria densa
- Common Water-hyacinthEichhornia crassipes
- Giant SalviniaSalvinia molesta
- Alligator-weedAlternanthera philoxeroides
- Parrot-featherMyriophyllum aquaticum
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Mississippi. Shared habitat, not food.
Most characteristic birds of this habitat 83
Ranked by how much of their habitat model this habitat is.
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Horned GrebePodiceps auritus
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Piping PloverCharadrius melodus
- Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
- Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopus
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- White IbisEudocimus albus
- Wood StorkMycteria americana
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Mottled DuckAnas fulvigula
- Black-bellied Whistling-DuckDendrocygna autumnalis
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Mississippi KiteIctinia mississippiensis
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- Purple GallinulePorphyrio martinica
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Sandhill CraneGrus canadensis
- Common Ground-doveColumbina passerina
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- Forster's TernSterna forsteri
Widespread birds also seen here (10)
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.