Habitat in Virginia
Freshwater marshes
Open, herb-covered wetlands with fresh, non-tidal water. Schafale
- Plants
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Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Virginia. Not a planting list.
- Heart Leaf WillowSalix eriocephala
- Stiff DogwoodSwida foemina
- Weakley's Flat-top GoldenrodEuthamia weakleyi
- Narrowleaf SunflowerHelianthus angustifolius
- Elliott's AsterSymphyotrichum elliottii
- Mid-Atlantic Flat-top GoldenrodEuthamia floribunda
- Bearded BeggarticksBidens aristosa
- Smooth BeggarticksBidens laevis
- Awnless BeggarticksBidens polylepis
- Crowned BeggarticksBidens trichosperma
- Nodding BeggarticksBidens cernua
- Purplestem BeggarticksBidens connata
- Small BeggarticksBidens discoidea
- Smallfruit BeggarticksBidens mitis
- Strawstem BeggarticksBidens comosa
- Tall BeggarticksBidens vulgata
- Tall Flat Top AsterDoellingeria umbellata var. umbellata
- Common BonesetEupatorium perfoliatum
- Hollow Joe-pye-weedEutrochium fistulosum
- Smooth Arrow WoodViburnum recognitum
- Southern ArrowwoodViburnum dentatum
- Pasture ThoroughwortEupatorium saltuense
- Torreys ThoroughwortEupatorium torreyanum
- White Morning-gloryIpomoea lacunosa
- WingstemVerbesina alternifolia
- Groundsel-treeBaccharis halimifolia
- Northern Coastal VioletViola brittoniana
- Pectinate VioletViola pectinata
- Blue VervainVerbena hastata
- ButtonbushCephalanthus occidentalis
- False Indigo-bushAmorpha fruticosa
- Halberd-leaf RosemallowHibiscus laevis
- Wild Black CurrantRibes americanum
- Arrowleaf TearthumbPersicaria sagittata
- Dotted SmartweedPersicaria punctata
- Halberd-leaf TearthumbPersicaria arifolia
- Common ElderberrySambucus canadensis
- Marsh PeaLathyrus palustris
- Greater Marsh St. John's-wortTriadenum walteri
- Virginia Marsh St. John's-wortTriadenum virginicum
- Showy Tick TrefoilDesmodium canadense
- Awned SedgeCarex atherodes
- Bottlebrush SedgeCarex hystericina
- Lakebank SedgeCarex lacustris
- Prairie SedgeCarex prairea
- Prairie Straw SedgeCarex suberecta
- Larger Blue Flag, Northern Blue FlagIris versicolor
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
No wildlife recorded in this habitat in Virginia yet.
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.