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.
- Celliotts FanpetalsSida elliottii var. elliottii
- Cursed Buttercup; Cursed CrowfootRanunculus sceleratus var. sceleratus
- Dwarf Crested IrisIris cristata
- Southeastern Flowering SpurgeEuphorbia pubentissima
- Smooth HydrangeaHydrangea arborescens
- Virginia IrisIris virginica
- Mountain Sweet-pepperbushClethra acuminata
- Engelmann's ArrowheadSagittaria engelmanniana
- Threadleaf ArrowheadSagittaria filiformis
- Weatherby's ArrowheadSagittaria weatherbiana
- Whorled Wood-asterOclemena acuminata
- Four Flower LoosestrifeSteironema quadriflorum
- Rough BedstrawGalium asprellum
- Broadleaf Pond-lilyNuphar advena
- Narrowleaf Pond-lilyNuphar sagittifolia
- Anglestem Primrose-willowLudwigia leptocarpa
- Hairy SeedboxLudwigia pilosa
- Long Beach SeedboxLudwigia brevipes
- Novel Witchgrass, Novel WitchgrassDichanthelium recognitum
- Shortleaf WitchgrassDichanthelium curtifolium
- Climbing HempweedMikania scandens
- Fall PhloxPhlox paniculata
- Great Blue LobeliaLobelia siphilitica
- Knotted RushJuncus nodosus
- American BittercressCardamine rotundifolia
- Bald CypressTaxodium distichum
- Blue Ridge BittercressCardamine flagellifera
- Pennsylvania BittercressCardamine pensylvanica
- Pond CypressTaxodium ascendens
- Small-anthered BittercressCardamine micranthera
- Savanna PanicgrassPhanopyrum gymnocarpon
- Small Fruit WitchgrassDichanthelium microcarpon
- Woolly WitchgrassDichanthelium scabriusculum
- Brownfruit RushJuncus pelocarpus
- Canadian RushJuncus canadensis
- Creeping RushJuncus repens
- Diffuse RushJuncus diffusissimus
- American SpeedwellVeronica americana
- Bulb-bearing Water-hemlockCicuta bulbifera
- Water SpeedwellVeronica anagallis-aquatica
- Earlyleaf BromeBromus latiglumis
- Fringed BromeBromus ciliatus
- Lanceleaf FrogfruitPhyla lanceolata
- Canby's BulrushSchoenoplectus etuberculatus
- Floating Marsh-pennywortHydrocotyle ranunculoides
- Swaying BulrushSchoenoplectus subterminalis
- Purpleleaf WillowherbEpilobium coloratum
- Canadian LousewortPedicularis canadensis
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.