Habitat in Virginia
Freshwater tidal marshes
Marshes along tidal rivers where the water is fresh but rises and falls with the tide. Schafale
- Plants
- 30
- Birds
- 107
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Virginia. Not a planting list.
- Riverbank Evening-primroseOenothera riparia
- Pumpkin AshFraxinus profunda
- Marsh PeaLathyrus palustris
- Saltmarsh Water-hempAmaranthus cannabinus
- Fox SedgeCarex vulpinoidea
- Long Leaf StarwortStellaria longifolia
- Broadleaf CattailTypha latifolia
- Broadleaf Pond-lilyNuphar advena
- Bushy SeedboxLudwigia alternifolia
- Globefruit SeedboxLudwigia sphaerocarpa
- Long Beach SeedboxLudwigia brevipes
- Swamp DockRumex verticillatus
- Long's BittercressCardamine longii
- Small-leaved Meadow-rueThalictrum macrostylum
- River BulrushBolboschoenus fluviatilis
- Big CordgrassSpartina cynosuroides
- American LotusNelumbo lutea
- Fowl Manna GrassGlyceria striata var. striata
- Marsh SkullcapScutellaria galericulata
- Coastal Water-hyssopBacopa monnieri
- Beaked SpikerushEleocharis rostellata
- Golden-clubOrontium aquaticum
- Seashore MallowKosteletzkya pentacarpos
- American ReedPhragmites americanus
- Sweet WoodreedCinna arundinacea
- Godfrey's SandwortSabulina paludicola
- Eastern GrasswortLilaeopsis chinensis
- Hairypod CowpeaVigna luteola
- South American SeedboxLudwigia bonariensis
- St. Augustine GrassStenotaphrum secundatum
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 107
- American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- American Tree SparrowSpizella arborea
- American WigeonAnas americana
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black RailLaterallus jamaicensis
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanus
- Blue-winged TealAnas discors
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphia
- BrantBranta bernicla
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common LoonGavia immer
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- DunlinCalidris alpina
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eurasian WigeonAnas penelope
- Field SparrowSpizella pusilla
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- Forster's TernSterna forsteri
- GadwallAnas strepera
- Glaucous GullLarus hyperboreus
- Glossy IbisPlegadis falcinellus
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Henslow's SparrowAmmodramus henslowii
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- Horned GrebePodiceps auritus
- KilldeerCharadrius vociferus
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.