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
- Glossy IbisPlegadis falcinellus
- Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Greater ScaupAythya marila
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- Horned GrebePodiceps auritus
- Lapland LongspurCalcarius lapponicus
- Least BitternIxobrychus exilis
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Least TernSternula antillarum
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
- Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Little GullHydrocoloeus minutus
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- Long-tailed DuckClangula hyemalis
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Marsh WrenCistothorus palustris
- MerlinFalco columbarius
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Palm WarblerDendroica palmarum
- Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
- Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podiceps
- Pine SiskinCarduelis pinus
- Piping PloverCharadrius melodus
- Prothonotary WarblerProtonotaria citrea
- Purple MartinProgne subis
- Purple SandpiperCalidris maritima
- Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
- Red-necked GrebePodiceps grisegena
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Red-throated LoonGavia stellata
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
- RedheadAythya americana
- Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
- Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
- Ring-necked PheasantPhasianus colchicus
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.