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Habitat in North Carolina

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.

Source 1

Plants
367
Birds
150
Scene recently flooded bottomland hardwood wetland Roanoke River NWR Kristie Gianopulos (7)
Bottomland hardwood forest on the Roanoke River just after a flood, its floor still slick with silt. Roanoke River National Wildlife Refuge, North Carolina Scene recently flooded bottomland hardwood wetland Roanoke River NWR Kristie Gianopulos (7), Kristie Gianopulos / NC Wetlands (ncwetlands.org), 2017-07-13. CC BY 2.0. Source.

Plants

Plants that grow wild in this habitat in North Carolina. Not a planting list.

Most characteristic plants of this habitat 367

Natives first, plants found in fewer other habitats first.

Sources 2, 3, 4

Wildlife

Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in North Carolina. Shared habitat, not food.

Most characteristic birds of this habitat 72

Ranked by how much of their habitat model this habitat is.

Widespread birds also seen here (78)

Found in many habitats here, so not listed above.

Sources 5, 6, 7

Sources

  1. Schafale, Guide to the Natural Communities of North Carolina, Fourth Approximation (NC Natural Heritage Program, 2012) habitat description
  2. Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition, habitat text phone app
  3. NC Parks species accounts
  4. USDA Forest Service Fire Effects Information System (reviewed notes)
  5. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
  6. USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001)
  7. NatureServe Explorer ecological systems (CC BY 4.0)
  8. Scene recently flooded bottomland hardwood wetland Roanoke River NWR Kristie Gianopulos (7), Kristie Gianopulos / NC Wetlands (ncwetlands.org) habitat picture

Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.