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.
- Climbing RoseRosa setigera
- Eastern Black NightshadeSolanum emulans
- Giant IronweedVernonia gigantea
- New York IronweedVernonia noveboracensis
- Swamp RoseRosa palustris
- Tall Blue Wild IndigoBaptisia australis
- Common Cut Leaf Coneflower; Green Head ConeflowerRudbeckia laciniata var. laciniata
- Common ElderberrySambucus canadensis
- Cooper's MilkvetchAstragalus neglectus
- Erect KnotweedPolygonum erectum
- Green AshFraxinus pennsylvanica
- Pumpkin AshFraxinus profunda
- Southeastern Cut Leaf Cone FlowerRudbeckia laciniata var. digitata
- Sun-facing ConeflowerRudbeckia heliopsidis
- Pond PinePinus serotina
- River BirchBetula nigra
- Black AshFraxinus nigra
- Low Rough Aster, Rough-leaved AsterEurybia radula
- Narrow Leaf Bushy St. JohnswortHypericum interior
- Bushy St. John's-wortHypericum densiflorum
- Early St. John's-wortHypericum nudiflorum
- Painted BuckeyeAesculus sylvatica
- Canadian MilkvetchAstragalus canadensis var. canadensis
- Eastern HemlockTsuga canadensis
- Narrowleaf MeadowsweetSpiraea alba var. alba
- Virginia SpiraeaSpiraea virginiana
- Marsh PeaLathyrus palustris
- Scarlet BeebalmMonarda didyma
- Pale St. John's-wortHypericum ellipticum
- Southern Marsh St. John's-wortTriadenum tubulosum
- Pale JewelweedImpatiens pallida
- Redroot AmaranthAmaranthus retroflexus
- Showy Tick TrefoilDesmodium canadense
- Pink TickseedCoreopsis rosea
- Spotted JewelweedImpatiens capensis
- Hazel AlderAlnus serrulata
- Purplehead SneezeweedHelenium flexuosum
- White Water CrowfootRanunculus aquatilis var. diffusus
- Common NinebarkPhysocarpus opulifolius var. opulifolius
- Cypress-knee SedgeCarex decomposita
- Drooping SedgeCarex prasina
- Dwarf HackberryCeltis pumila
- Eastern WahooEuonymus atropurpureus
- False Hop SedgeCarex lupuliformis
- Fibrous-root SedgeCarex communis
- Fowl BluegrassPoa palustris
- Graceful SedgeCarex gracillima
- Twisted SedgeCarex torta
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
- 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)
- 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.