Habitat in Virginia
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time. Schafale
- Plants
- 381
- Birds
- 151
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Virginia. Not a planting list.
- Heartleaf Hedge-nettleStachys cordata
- Hooked Buttercup; Recurved ButtercuoRanunculus recurvatus var. recurvatus
- Long Leaf StarwortStellaria longifolia
- Rock ButtercupRanunculus micranthus
- Smooth Hedge-nettleStachys tenuifolia
- Star ChickweedStellaria pubera
- Yellow Water-buttercupRanunculus flabellaris
- Virginia Cup-plantSilphium connatum
- Flowering Yellow WoodsorrelOxalis florida
- Mountain SilverbellHalesia tetraptera
- Common PawpawAsimina triloba
- Fragrant BedstrawGalium triflorum
- Fringed LoosestrifeSteironema ciliatum
- Heartleaf PeppervineAmpelopsis cordata
- Lyreleaf SageSalvia lyrata
- Climbing HydrangeaHydrangea barbara
- Smooth PhloxPhlox glaberrima
- Black WalnutJuglans nigra
- Pale DockRumex altissimus
- Common Golden-AlexandersZizia aurea
- Great Blue LobeliaLobelia siphilitica
- Woodland StonecropSedum ternatum
- Bald CypressTaxodium distichum
- Blue Ridge BittercressCardamine flagellifera
- Georgia LobeliaLobelia georgiana
- Limestone BittercressCardamine douglassii
- Small-anthered BittercressCardamine micranthera
- Starry Solomons PumeMaianthemum stellatum
- Swamp LeatherflowerClematis crispa
- Bosc's WitchgrassDichanthelium boscii
- Fall Panic GrassPanicum dichotomiflorum var. dichotomiflorum
- Gaping GrassSteinchisma hians
- Savanna PanicgrassPhanopyrum gymnocarpon
- Small Fruit WitchgrassDichanthelium microcarpon
- Spotted-sheath WitchgrassDichanthelium yadkinense
- Cow-parsnipHeracleum maximum
- Appalachian Small Flower PhaceliaPhacelia dubia var. dubia
- Coville's PhaceliaPhacelia covillei
- Creeping EryngoEryngium prostratum
- Fringed PhaceliaPhacelia fimbriata
- Great Indian-plantainArnoglossum reniforme
- Virginia DayflowerCommelina virginica
- Hairy Woodland BromeBromus pubescens
- Nodding Rattlesnake-rootNabalus crepidineus
- Nottoway Valley BromeBromus nottowayanus
- Purple Giant-hyssopAgastache scrophulariifolia
- Red MulberryMorus rubra
- Eastern OxeyeHeliopsis helianthoides var. helianthoides
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 151
- Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
- Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
- 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
- American Tree SparrowSpizella arborea
- American WoodcockScolopax minor
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Barred OwlStrix varia
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black VultureCoragyps atratus
- Black-and-White WarblerMniotilta varia
- Black-billed CuckooCoccyzus erythropthalmus
- Black-capped ChickadeePoecile atricapillus
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Black-throated Blue WarblerDendroica caerulescens
- Black-throated Green WarblerDendroica virens
- Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
- Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Blue-winged TealAnas discors
- Blue-winged WarblerVermivora pinus
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
- Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterus
- Brown CreeperCerthia americana
- Brown ThrasherToxostoma rufum
- Brown-headed CowbirdMolothrus ater
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Canada WarblerWilsonia canadensis
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Carolina ChickadeePoecile carolinensis
- Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Cerulean WarblerDendroica cerulea
- Chestnut-sided WarblerDendroica pensylvanica
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
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.