Habitat in Mississippi
Swamps
Forested wetlands with standing water much of the year, such as cypress and gum swamps. Schafale
- Plants
- 291
- Birds
- 144

Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Mississippi. Not a planting list.
Most characteristic plants of this habitat 291
Natives first, plants found in fewer other habitats first.
- Horsetail CrowngrassPaspalum fluitans
- Giant Blue IrisIris giganticaerulea
- Cattail SedgeCarex typhina
- Giant SedgeCarex gigantea
- Gray's SedgeCarex grayi
- Hirsute SedgeCarex complanata
- Shoreline SedgeCarex hyalinolepis
- Squarrose SedgeCarex squarrosa
- Copper IrisIris fulva
- Florida DockRumex floridanus
- Southern CattailTypha domingensis
- Clethra alnifolia var. tomentosaClethra tomentosa
- Loblolly BayGordonia lasianthus
- Swamp LoosestrifeDecodon verticillatus
- Mississippi ButtercupRanunculus laxicaulis
- Turk's-cap LilyLilium superbum
- Floating Marsh-pennywortHydrocotyle ranunculoides
- Looseflower Water-willowJusticia ovata
- Water LocustGleditsia aquatica
- Lake CressRorippa aquatica
- Mingled BeakrushRhynchospora mixta
- Short-bristle Horned BeaksedgeRhynchospora corniculata
- Stalkless YellowcressRorippa sessiliflora
- Silky CamelliaStewartia malacodendron
- Common DuckweedLemna minor
- Lesser DuckweedLemna aequinoctialis
- Little DuckweedLemna obscura
- Minute DuckweedLemna perpusilla
- Small Green Wood OrchidPlatanthera clavellata
- Southern Wild-riceZizaniopsis miliacea
- Valdivia DuckweedLemna valdiviana
- Coastal Rose-gentianSabatia calycina
- Illicium floridanumIllicium floridanum
- One Flower False FiddleleafHydrolea uniflora
- Grassleaf Ladies'-tressesSpiranthes praecox
- Greater DuckweedSpirodela polyrhiza
- Nodding Ladies'-tressesSpiranthes cernua
- Shade MudflowerMicranthemum umbrosum
- Southern Wood-fernDryopteris ludoviciana
- Carolina JessamineGelsemium sempervirens
- Cliftonia monophyllaCliftonia monophylla
- Swamp JessamineGelsemium rankinii
- Buckwheat VineBrunnichia ovata
- Brazilian WatermealWolffia brasiliensis
- Colombian WatermealWolffia columbiana
- Roundfruit Hedge-hyssopGratiola virginiana
- Rhapidophyllum hystrixRhapidophyllum hystrix
- Southern Roughleaf GoldenrodSolidago patula var. strictula
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Mississippi. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 144
- Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- AnhingaAnhinga anhinga
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
- Barred OwlStrix varia
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black VultureCoragyps atratus
- Black-and-White WarblerMniotilta varia
- Black-bellied Whistling-DuckDendrocygna autumnalis
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
- Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Blue-headed VireoVireo solitarius
- Blue-winged TealAnas discors
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
- Brown CreeperCerthia americana
- Brown-headed CowbirdMolothrus ater
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Carolina ChickadeePoecile carolinensis
- Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Downy WoodpeckerPicoides pubescens
- DunlinCalidris alpina
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- Eastern Wood-peweeContopus virens
- Eurasian Collared-doveStreptopelia decaocto
- Eurasian WigeonAnas penelope
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
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)
- The Land of Evangeline, Joseph Rusling Meeker habitat picture
Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.









































































