Habitat in Virginia
Ponds, lakes and their shores
Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs. Schafale
- Plants
- 210
- Birds
- 125
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Virginia. Not a planting list.
- Novel Witchgrass, Novel WitchgrassDichanthelium recognitum
- Raven's SeedboxLudwigia ravenii
- Winged SeedboxLudwigia alata
- Bald CypressTaxodium distichum
- Maritime BluestemAnatherum tenuispatheum
- Pond CypressTaxodium ascendens
- Gaping GrassSteinchisma hians
- Panicum virgatum var. virgatumPanicum virgatum var. virgatum
- Savanna PanicgrassPhanopyrum gymnocarpon
- Small Fruit WitchgrassDichanthelium microcarpon
- Brownfruit RushJuncus pelocarpus
- Canadian RushJuncus canadensis
- Creeping RushJuncus repens
- Diffuse RushJuncus diffusissimus
- Elliott's RushJuncus elliottii
- Leathery RushJuncus coriaceus
- Narrow-panicle RushJuncus tweedyi
- Weak RushJuncus debilis
- Whiteroot RushJuncus brachycarpus
- Bulb-bearing Water-hemlockCicuta bulbifera
- Creeping EryngoEryngium prostratum
- Common Three Square BulrushSchoenoplectus pungens var. pungens
- Lanceleaf FrogfruitPhyla lanceolata
- Northeastern BulrushScirpus ancistrochaetus
- Canby's BulrushSchoenoplectus etuberculatus
- Swaying BulrushSchoenoplectus subterminalis
- Woolgrass BulrushScirpus cyperinus
- American Barnyard GrassEchinochloa muricata var. microstachya
- Hill's PondweedPotamogeton hillii
- Oakes' pondweedPotamogeton oakesianus
- Spiral Pondweed, Northern Snailseed PondweedPotamogeton spirillus
- Straightleaf PondweedPotamogeton strictifolius
- American Halfchaff SedgeCyperus neotropicalis
- Low SpikesedgeCyperus hortensis
- Smallflower Halfchaff SedgeCyperus subsquarrosus
- Umbrella Flat SedgeCyperus diandrus
- American Bur-reedSparganium americanum
- Clasping-leaf PondweedPotamogeton perfoliatus
- Creeping Manna GrassGlyceria acutiflora
- Illinois PondweedPotamogeton illinoensis
- Largeleaf PondweedPotamogeton amplifolius
- Longleaf PondweedPotamogeton nodosus
- Ribbonleaf PondweedPotamogeton epihydrus
- Sago PondweedStuckenia pectinata
- Small PondweedPotamogeton berchtoldii
- Spotted PondweedPotamogeton pulcher
- Waterthread PondweedPotamogeton diversifolius
- Anglestem BeaksedgeRhynchospora caduca
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 125
- American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- American WigeonAnas americana
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black RailLaterallus jamaicensis
- Black SkimmerRynchops niger
- Black TernChlidonias niger
- Black VultureCoragyps atratus
- Black-bellied PloverPluvialis squatarola
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanus
- Blue-winged TealAnas discors
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphia
- BuffleheadBucephala albeola
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
- Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Common GoldeneyeBucephala clangula
- Common LoonGavia immer
- Common MerganserMergus merganser
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- DunlinCalidris alpina
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
- Eurasian Collared-doveStreptopelia decaocto
- Eurasian WigeonAnas penelope
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- Forster's TernSterna forsteri
- GadwallAnas strepera
- Glaucous GullLarus hyperboreus
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)
- Yellow butterwort beside a moss-hung coastal pond, Marian Ellis Rowan habitat picture
Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.