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.
- Longbeak BeaksedgeRhynchospora scirpoides
- Shortbeak BeaksedgeRhynchospora nitens
- White BeaksedgeRhynchospora alba
- American LotusNelumbo lutea
- Sheathed FlatsedgeCyperus haspan
- Floating MannagrassGlyceria septentrionalis
- Sugarcane PlumegrassErianthus giganteus
- Catchfly CutgrassLeersia lenticularis
- Grass-leaved Water PlantainAlisma gramineum
- Pale Spike RushEleocharis olivacea var. olivacea
- Rooted SpikerushEleocharis radicans
- Roundleaf Water-hyssopBacopa rotundifolia
- Southern CutgrassLeersia hexandra
- Water-shieldBrasenia schreberi
- Bald SpikerushEleocharis erythropoda
- Blackfruit SpikerushEleocharis melanocarpa
- Dwarf SpikerushEleocharis parvula
- Horsetail SpikerushEleocharis equisetoides
- Needle SpikerushEleocharis acicularis
- Purple SpikerushEleocharis atropurpurea
- Robbins's SpikerushEleocharis robbinsii
- Viviparous SpikerushEleocharis vivipara
- White SpikerushEleocharis albida
- American Water-plantainAlisma subcordatum
- Golden-clubOrontium aquaticum
- Teal LovegrassEragrostis hypnoides
- TitiCyrilla racemiflora
- Common DuckweedLemna minor
- Lesser DuckweedLemna aequinoctialis
- Little DuckweedLemna obscura
- Low Water-milfoilMyriophyllum humile
- Minute DuckweedLemna perpusilla
- Star DuckweedLemna trisulca
- Valdivia DuckweedLemna valdiviana
- Cutleaf Water-milfoilMyriophyllum pinnatum
- Loose Water-milfoilMyriophyllum laxum
- Narrowleaf BugleweedLycopus angustifolius
- Variable-leaf Water-milfoilMyriophyllum heterophyllum
- Bog Yellow-eyed-grassXyris difformis
- Fringed Yellow-eyed-grassXyris fimbriata
- Irisleaf Yellow-eyed-grassXyris iridifolia
- Twig-rushCladium mariscoides
- American EelgrassVallisneria americana
- Lizard's-tailSaururus cernuus
- Lacelip Ladies'-tressesSpiranthes laciniata
- Greater DuckweedSpirodela polyrrhiza
- Canadian WaterweedElodea canadensis
- Nuttall's WaterweedElodea nuttallii
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.