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
- 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.