Habitat in Mississippi
Streams, rivers and their banks
Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals. Schafale
- Plants
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Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Mississippi. Not a planting list.
Most characteristic plants of this habitat 245
Natives first, plants found in fewer other habitats first.
- Swamp RoseRosa palustris
- Canadian MilkvetchAstragalus canadensis var. canadensis
- Early St. John's-wortHypericum nudiflorum
- Five Lobe St. JohnswortHypericum lobocarpum
- Celliotts FanpetalsSida elliottii var. elliottii
- Southeastern Flowering SpurgeEuphorbia pubentissima
- Anglestem Primrose-willowLudwigia leptocarpa
- Dwarf HackberryCeltis tenuifolia
- Hazel AlderAlnus serrulata
- Drooping SedgeCarex prasina
- Fibrous-root SedgeCarex communis
- Whitemouth DayflowerCommelina erecta var. erecta
- Fall PhloxPhlox paniculata
- TitiCyrilla racemiflora
- Giant CaneArundinaria gigantea
- Slender FlatsedgeCyperus bipartitus
- American LotusNelumbo lutea
- American GroundnutApios americana
- Culver's-rootVeronicastrum virginicum
- Slender Yellow-eyed-grassXyris torta
- Variable-leaf Water-milfoilMyriophyllum heterophyllum
- Lance Leaved SpikerushEleocharis lanceolata
- Bald SpikerushEleocharis erythropoda
- Needle SpikerushEleocharis acicularis
- Golden-clubOrontium aquaticum
- White CutgrassLeersia virginica
- Woodland MuhlyMuhlenbergia sylvatica
- Stylisma pickeringii var. pickeringiiStylisma pickeringii var. pickeringii
- Woolly Dutchman's-pipeIsotrema tomentosum
- Stiff CowbaneOxypolis rigidior
- Creeping SpotflowerAcmella oppositifolia var. repens
- Mayaca fluviatilisMayaca fluviatilis
- Black WillowSalix nigra
- Gulf VervainVerbena xutha
- Fragrant Sumac; Squawbush; Squaw BushRhus aromatica var. aromatica
- Green HawthornCrataegus viridis var. viridis
- September ElmUlmus serotina
- Broadleaf IronweedVernonia glauca
- Red Buckeye; Scarlet BuckeyeAesculus pavia var. pavia
- Virginia IrisIris virginica
- Climbing HempweedMikania scandens
- Bald CypressTaxodium distichum
- Pond CypressTaxodium ascendens
- Great Blue LobeliaLobelia siphilitica
- American Halfchaff SedgeLipocarpha maculata
- Creeping RushJuncus repens
- Globe FlatsedgeCyperus echinatus
- River OatsChasmanthium latifolium
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Mississippi. Shared habitat, not food.
No wildlife recorded in this habitat in Mississippi yet.
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.