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
- 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.