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
- 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.