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.
- Pond Water StarwortCallitriche stagnalis
- Rough Seed BulrushSchoenoplectus mucronatus
- Sacred LotusNelumbo nucifera
- Tropical FlatsedgeCyperus surinamensis
- Weeping WillowSalix babylonica
- Wild Goose PlumPrunus munsoniana
- Yellow Floating-heartNymphoides peltata
- Curly PondweedPotamogeton crispus
- Brittle WaternymphNajas minor
- Common Water-primroseLudwigia hexapetala
- Brazilian WaterweedEgeria densa
- Common Water-hyacinthOshuna crassipes
- Eurasian Water-milfoilMyriophyllum spicatum
- Yellow IrisIris pseudacorus
- Alligator-weedAlternanthera philoxeroides
- Giant SalviniaSalvinia molesta
- Parrot-featherMyriophyllum aquaticum
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 125
- Ruddy DuckOxyura jamaicensis
- Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpres
- Rusty BlackbirdEuphagus carolinus
- SanderlingCalidris alba
- Savannah SparrowPasserculus sandwichensis
- Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatus
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus
- Snow GooseChen caerulescens
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
- Song SparrowMelospiza melodia
- SoraPorzana carolina
- Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
- Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopus
- Surf ScoterMelanitta perspicillata
- Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
- Thayer's GullLarus thayeri
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- Tricolored HeronEgretta tricolor
- Tundra SwanCygnus columbianus
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- Virginia RailRallus limicola
- Western SandpiperCalidris mauri
- White IbisEudocimus albus
- Wilson's SnipeGallinago delicata
- Wood DuckAix sponsa
- Yellow-breasted ChatIcteria virens
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
- Yellow-rumped WarblerDendroica coronata
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.