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
- Common RavenCorvus corax
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Downy WoodpeckerPicoides pubescens
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- Eastern Wood-peweeContopus virens
- Eurasian Collared-doveStreptopelia decaocto
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Evening GrosbeakCoccothraustes vespertinus
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- Forster's TernSterna forsteri
- Fox SparrowPasserella iliaca
- GadwallAnas strepera
- Glossy IbisPlegadis falcinellus
- Golden-crowned KingletRegulus satrapa
- Golden-winged WarblerVermivora chrysoptera
- Gray CatbirdDumetella carolinensis
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Hairy WoodpeckerPicoides villosus
- Hermit ThrushCatharus guttatus
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- Hooded WarblerWilsonia citrina
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- Kentucky WarblerOporornis formosus
- Least BitternIxobrychus exilis
- Least FlycatcherEmpidonax minimus
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolnii
- Long-eared OwlAsio otus
- Louisiana WaterthrushSeiurus motacilla
- Magnolia WarblerDendroica magnolia
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Marsh WrenCistothorus palustris
- Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
- Northern ParulaParula americana
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.