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
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- Eastern Wood-peweeContopus virens
- Eurasian Collared-doveStreptopelia decaocto
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Evening GrosbeakCoccothraustes vespertinus
- Fox SparrowPasserella iliaca
- Golden-crowned KingletRegulus satrapa
- Golden-winged WarblerVermivora chrysoptera
- Gray CatbirdDumetella carolinensis
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Hairy WoodpeckerPicoides villosus
- Hermit ThrushCatharus guttatus
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- Hooded WarblerWilsonia citrina
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- Kentucky WarblerOporornis formosus
- Least FlycatcherEmpidonax minimus
- Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolnii
- Long-eared OwlAsio otus
- Louisiana WaterthrushSeiurus motacilla
- Magnolia WarblerDendroica magnolia
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Marsh WrenCistothorus palustris
- Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
- Northern ParulaParula americana
- Northern Saw-whet OwlAegolius acadicus
- Olive-sided FlycatcherContopus cooperi
- Orange-crowned WarblerVermivora celata
- Orchard OrioleIcterus spurius
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
- Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatus
- Pine SiskinCarduelis pinus
- Prothonotary WarblerProtonotaria citrea
- Purple FinchCarpodacus purpureus
- Red-bellied WoodpeckerMelanerpes carolinus
- Red-breasted NuthatchSitta canadensis
- Red-headed WoodpeckerMelanerpes erythrocephalus
- Red-shouldered HawkButeo lineatus
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
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.