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.
- Compact DodderCuscuta compacta
- Musk Monkey-flowerErythranthe moschata
- Big CordgrassSpartina cynosuroides
- Giant CaneArundinaria gigantea
- Hill's PondweedPotamogeton hillii
- Oakes' pondweedPotamogeton oakesianus
- Spiral Pondweed, Northern Snailseed PondweedPotamogeton spirillus
- Straightleaf PondweedPotamogeton strictifolius
- American Halfchaff SedgeCyperus neotropicalis
- Low SpikesedgeCyperus hortensis
- Smallflower Halfchaff SedgeCyperus subsquarrosus
- American Bur-reedSparganium americanum
- Greenfruit Bur-reedSparganium acaule
- Illinois PondweedPotamogeton illinoensis
- Largeleaf PondweedPotamogeton amplifolius
- Longleaf PondweedPotamogeton nodosus
- Ribbonleaf PondweedPotamogeton epihydrus
- Small PondweedPotamogeton berchtoldii
- Snail-seed PondweedPotamogeton bicupulatus
- Spotted PondweedPotamogeton pulcher
- Waterthread PondweedPotamogeton diversifolius
- American LotusNelumbo lutea
- Globe FlatsedgeCyperus echinatus
- Slender FlatsedgeCyperus bipartitus
- American GroundnutApios americana
- Culver's-rootVeronicastrum virginicum
- Coastal Water-hyssopBacopa monnieri
- Rice CutgrassLeersia oryzoides
- River OatsChasmanthium latifolium
- Roundleaf Water-hyssopBacopa rotundifolia
- Thymeleaf BluetHoustonia serpyllifolia
- Water-shieldBrasenia schreberi
- White CutgrassLeersia virginica
- Bald SpikerushEleocharis erythropoda
- Kentucky Ladys SlipperCypripedium kentuckiense
- Needle SpikerushEleocharis acicularis
- Golden-clubOrontium aquaticum
- Virginia SweetspireItea virginica
- White TurtleheadChelone glabra
- Sandbar LovegrassEragrostis frankii
- Teal LovegrassEragrostis hypnoides
- TitiCyrilla racemiflora
- Bluejoint; Canada Reed GrassCalamagrostis canadensis var. canadensis
- Low Water-milfoilMyriophyllum humile
- Variable-leaf Water-milfoilMyriophyllum heterophyllum
- Fringed Yellow-eyed-grassXyris fimbriata
- Mountain CamelliaStewartia ovata
- Slender Yellow-eyed-grassXyris 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.