Habitat in Virginia
Freshwater marshes
Open, herb-covered wetlands with fresh, non-tidal water. Schafale
- Plants
- 259
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Virginia. Not a planting list.
- Nash's Meadow-beautyRhexia nashii
- Reed Canary-grassPhalaris arundinacea
- Sharpwing Monkey-flowerMimulus alatus
- Tall Horned BeaksedgeRhynchospora macrostachya
- Many-spike FlatsedgeCyperus polystachyos
- Marsh FlatsedgeCyperus pseudovegetus
- Redroot FlatsedgeCyperus erythrorhizos
- Sheathed FlatsedgeCyperus haspan
- Slender FlatsedgeCyperus bipartitus
- Yellow FlatsedgeCyperus flavescens
- American GroundnutApios americana
- Atlantic MannagrassGlyceria obtusa
- Fowl Manna GrassGlyceria striata var. striata
- Mad-dog SkullcapScutellaria lateriflora
- Narrow PlumegrassErianthus strictus
- Saccharum coarctatumErianthus coarctatus
- Slender MannagrassGlyceria melicaria
- Sugarcane PlumegrassErianthus giganteus
- Stalkless YellowcressRorippa sessiliflora
- Blue Water-hyssopBacopa caroliniana
- Rice CutgrassLeersia oryzoides
- Southern CutgrassLeersia hexandra
- Tropical Water-hyssopBacopa innominata
- Bald SpikerushEleocharis erythropoda
- Blunt Spike RushEleocharis obtusa
- Common SpikerushEleocharis palustris
- Dwarf SpikerushEleocharis parvula
- Englemann's SpikerushEleocharis engelmannii
- Needle SpikerushEleocharis acicularis
- Slender Spike RushEleocharis tenuis var. tenuis
- Squarestem SpikerushEleocharis quadrangulata
- American BugleweedLycopus americanus
- American Water-plantainAlisma subcordatum
- Seashore SaltgrassDistichlis spicata
- Swamp AgrimonyAgrimonia parviflora
- Tall Hairy AgrimonyAgrimonia gryposepala
- Coastal LovegrassEragrostis refracta
- Eastern Marsh FernThelypteris palustris var. pubescens
- Teal LovegrassEragrostis hypnoides
- Narrowleaf BugleweedLycopus angustifolius
- Royal FernOsmunda spectabilis
- Taperleaf BugleweedLycopus rubellus
- Irisleaf Yellow-eyed-grassXyris iridifolia
- Slender Yellow-eyed-grassXyris torta
- Soapwort GentianGentiana saponaria
- Ragged Fringed OrchidPlatanthera lacera
- SawgrassCladium jamaicense
- Yellow-fringed OrchidPlatanthera ciliaris
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.