Habitat in Virginia
Streams, rivers and their banks
Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals. Schafale
- Plants
- 315
- Birds
- 129
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Virginia. Not a planting list.
- Black WillowSalix nigra
- Chickasaw PlumPrunus angustifolia
- Coastal Plain WillowSalix caroliniana
- Silky DogwoodSwida amomum
- Silky WillowSalix sericea
- Grass-leaved Flat-top GoldenrodEuthamia lanceolata
- Heart Leaf WillowSalix eriocephala
- Sandbar WillowSalix interior
- Stiff DogwoodSwida foemina
- Longstalk HollyIlex collina
- Pink AzaleaRhododendron periclymenoides
- Smooth AzaleaRhododendron arborescens
- Smooth BeggarticksBidens laevis
- Shingle OakQuercus imbricaria
- Smooth Yellow VioletViola eriocarpa
- Viola esculentaViola edulis
- Smooth BlackhawViburnum prunifolium
- Golden RagwortPackera aurea
- Black MapleAcer nigrum
- Eastern BoxelderAcer negundo var. negundo
- Silver MapleAcer saccharinum
- Coastal Plain Joe-pye-weedEutrochium dubium
- Rusty BlackhawViburnum rufidulum
- Smooth Arrow WoodViburnum recognitum
- Southern ArrowwoodViburnum dentatum
- Blue MistflowerConoclinium coelestinum
- Pear HawthornCrataegus calpodendron
- Fragrant Sumac; Squawbush; Squaw BushRhus aromatica var. aromatica
- White Morning-gloryIpomoea lacunosa
- LeConte's VioletViola affinis
- Northern Coastal VioletViola brittoniana
- Pectinate VioletViola pectinata
- Primrose-leaf VioletViola primulifolia
- Sweet White VioletViola blanda
- Blue VervainVerbena hastata
- ButtonbushCephalanthus occidentalis
- Swamp SmartweedPersicaria hydropiperoides
- Biennial BeeblossomOenothera gaura
- Crayton's HawthornCrataegus craytonii
- Green HawthornCrataegus viridis var. viridis
- Downy ArrowwoodViburnum rafinesqueanum
- False Indigo-bushAmorpha fruticosa
- Glaucous Evening PrimroseOenothera tetragona
- Halberd-leaf RosemallowHibiscus laevis
- Nantucket ServiceberryAmelanchier nantucketensis
- Red GrapeVitis palmata
- Sand GrapeVitis rupestris
- Broadleaf IronweedVernonia glauca
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 129
- Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
- Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- American Tree SparrowSpizella arborea
- American WoodcockScolopax minor
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Barred OwlStrix varia
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black VultureCoragyps atratus
- Black-and-White WarblerMniotilta varia
- Black-billed CuckooCoccyzus erythropthalmus
- Black-capped ChickadeePoecile atricapillus
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
- Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Blue-winged WarblerVermivora pinus
- Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterus
- Brown CreeperCerthia americana
- Brown ThrasherToxostoma rufum
- Brown-headed CowbirdMolothrus ater
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Carolina ChickadeePoecile carolinensis
- Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Cerulean WarblerDendroica cerulea
- Chestnut-sided WarblerDendroica pensylvanica
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common RavenCorvus corax
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Downy WoodpeckerPicoides pubescens
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
Sources
- Schafale, Guide to the Natural Communities of North Carolina, Fourth Approximation (NC Natural Heritage Program, 2012) habitat description
- FloraQuest: Carolinas, Georgia (Southeastern Flora Team), 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)
- Watauga Falls, Illustrator/engraver not confidently attributed; reproduced in Zeigler and Grosscup, The Heart of the Alleghanies (1883) habitat picture
Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.