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.
- Smooth False-buttonweedSpermacoce glabra
- Trumpet-creeperCampsis radicans
- Common SweetleafSymplocos tinctoria
- Leafy BulrushScirpus polyphyllus
- Reclining BulrushScirpus flaccidifolius
- Softstem BulrushSchoenoplectus tabernaemontani
- Canada GermanderTeucrium canadense var. canadense
- Compact DodderCuscuta compacta
- Largeseed Forget-me-notMyosotis macrosperma
- Clustered FescueFestuca paradoxa
- Giant CaneArundinaria gigantea
- Allegheny Monkey FlowerMimulus ringens var. ringens
- Carolina Canary-grassPhalaris caroliniana
- CrossvineBignonia capreolata
- False NettleBoehmeria cylindrica
- Sharpwing Monkey-flowerMimulus alatus
- American GroundnutApios americana
- Floating MannagrassGlyceria septentrionalis
- Fowl Manna GrassGlyceria striata var. striata
- Hyssop SkullcapScutellaria integrifolia
- Mad-dog SkullcapScutellaria lateriflora
- Veined SkullcapScutellaria nervosa
- Virginia BluebellsMertensia virginica
- False DaisyEclipta prostrata
- American BittersweetCelastrus scandens
- Catchfly CutgrassLeersia lenticularis
- Deam's Three-seeded MercuryAcalypha deamii
- HoneyvineCynanchum laeve
- River OatsChasmanthium latifolium
- Water-shieldBrasenia schreberi
- White CutgrassLeersia virginica
- American BugleweedLycopus americanus
- Swamp AgrimonyAgrimonia parviflora
- Big CarpetgrassAxonopus furcatus
- Eastern Marsh FernThelypteris palustris var. pubescens
- Jacobs Ladder; Greek ValerianPolemonium reptans var. reptans
- New York FernAmauropelta noveboracensis
- Sandbar LovegrassEragrostis frankii
- Canada Wood-nettleLaportea canadensis
- Christmas FernPolystichum acrostichoides
- American BladdernutStaphylea trifolia
- Royal FernOsmunda spectabilis
- Taperleaf BugleweedLycopus rubellus
- Virginia BugleweedLycopus virginicus
- Irisleaf Yellow-eyed-grassXyris iridifolia
- Lanceleaf AnemoneAnemone lancifolia
- Bushs MuhlyMuhlenbergia bushii
- Large Flower ValerianValeriana pauciflora
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.