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.
- Dwarf AnemoneAnemone quinquefolia var. minima
- Wirestem MuhlyMuhlenbergia frondosa
- Woodland MuhlyMuhlenbergia sylvatica
- American EelgrassVallisneria americana
- Kentucky CoffeetreeGymnocladus dioicus
- Mullein FoxgloveDasistoma macrophyllum
- Bent AvensGeum geniculatum
- Highland DoghobbleLeucothoe fontanesiana
- Bluntleaf WaterleafHydrophyllum canadense
- Early SaxifrageMicranthes virginiensis
- SweetshrubCalycanthus floridus
- Stiff CowbaneOxypolis rigidior
- Big Floating-heartNymphoides aquatica
- Green False-helleboreVeratrum viride
- Southern Lady FernAthyrium asplenioides
- Canadian WaterweedElodea canadensis
- Northern Barren-strawberryWaldsteinia fragarioides
- Nuttall's WaterweedElodea nuttallii
- Southern Barren-strawberryWaldsteinia fragarioides subsp. doniana
- Spoonleaf SundewDrosera intermedia
- SupplejackBerchemia scandens
- Eastern BloodleafIresine rhizomatosa
- Shade MudflowerMicranthemum umbrosum
- Appalachian QuillwortIsoetes appalachiana
- Virginia QuillwortIsoetes virginica
- Winter QuillwortIsoetes hyemalis
- Chuey's Evergreen Wild GingerHexastylis chueyi
- Mattaponi QuillwortIsoetes mattaponica
- Eastern Blue-eyed-grassSisyrinchium atlanticum
- Carolina FanwortCabomba caroliniana
- Harper's FimbryFimbristylis perpusilla
- Water-spider OrchidHabenaria repens
- Coastal Rose-gentianSabatia calycina
- Common HornwortCeratophyllum demersum
- Field HorsetailEquisetum arvense
- Scouring RushEquisetum praealtum
- Seaside BrookweedSamolus parviflorus
- Slender WaternymphNajas gracillima
- Spineless HornwortCeratophyllum echinatum
- Spoon Shape Barbaras ButtonsMarshallia obovata var. obovata
- Widgeon-grassRuppia maritima
- Kankakee Mallow, Kankakee Globe-mallowIliamna remota
- Water StargrassHeteranthera dubia
- Meadow SpikemossSelaginella apoda
- Sweet WoodreedCinna arundinacea
- Terrestrial Water-starwortCallitriche terrestris
- PiratebushBuckleya distichophylla
- Vernal Water-starwortCallitriche palustris
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.