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
- 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.