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
- 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.