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
- Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
- Rose-breasted GrosbeakPheucticus ludovicianus
- Ruby-crowned KingletRegulus calendula
- Ruby-throated HummingbirdArchilochus colubris
- Ruffed GrouseBonasa umbellus
- Rusty BlackbirdEuphagus carolinus
- Scarlet TanagerPiranga olivacea
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- Song SparrowMelospiza melodia
- SoraPorzana carolina
- Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
- Swainson's WarblerLimnothlypis swainsonii
- Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- Tufted TitmouseBaeolophus bicolor
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- VeeryCatharus fuscescens
- Virginia RailRallus limicola
- White-breasted NuthatchSitta carolinensis
- White-eyed VireoVireo griseus
- White-throated SparrowZonotrichia albicollis
- Wild TurkeyMeleagris gallopavo
- Willow FlycatcherEmpidonax traillii
- Wilson's SnipeGallinago delicata
- Wood DuckAix sponsa
- Wood ThrushHylocichla mustelina
- Worm-eating WarblerHelmitheros vermivorum
- Yellow-bellied SapsuckerSphyrapicus varius
- Yellow-billed CuckooCoccyzus americanus
- Yellow-breasted ChatIcteria virens
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
- Yellow-rumped WarblerDendroica coronata
- Yellow-throated WarblerDendroica dominica
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.