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
- Northern Saw-whet OwlAegolius acadicus
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- Northern WaterthrushSeiurus noveboracensis
- Olive-sided FlycatcherContopus cooperi
- Orange-crowned WarblerVermivora celata
- Orchard OrioleIcterus spurius
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
- Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatus
- Pine SiskinCarduelis pinus
- Prothonotary WarblerProtonotaria citrea
- Purple FinchCarpodacus purpureus
- Red-bellied WoodpeckerMelanerpes carolinus
- Red-breasted NuthatchSitta canadensis
- Red-headed WoodpeckerMelanerpes erythrocephalus
- Red-shouldered HawkButeo lineatus
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
- Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
- Rose-breasted GrosbeakPheucticus ludovicianus
- Rough-legged HawkButeo lagopus
- Ruby-crowned KingletRegulus calendula
- Ruby-throated HummingbirdArchilochus colubris
- Ruddy DuckOxyura jamaicensis
- Ruffed GrouseBonasa umbellus
- Rusty BlackbirdEuphagus carolinus
- Scarlet TanagerPiranga olivacea
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
- Snowy OwlBubo scandiacus
- Song SparrowMelospiza melodia
- SoraPorzana carolina
- Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
- Swainson's WarblerLimnothlypis swainsonii
- Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- Tufted TitmouseBaeolophus bicolor
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- VeeryCatharus fuscescens
- Virginia RailRallus limicola
- White-breasted NuthatchSitta carolinensis
- White-eyed VireoVireo griseus
- White-throated SparrowZonotrichia albicollis
- Wild TurkeyMeleagris gallopavo
- Willow FlycatcherEmpidonax traillii
- Wilson's SnipeGallinago delicata
- Wood DuckAix sponsa
- Wood ThrushHylocichla mustelina
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.