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.
- Sandhill AmaranthAmaranthus arenicola
- Sharpleaf CancerwortKickxia elatine
- Silvery CockscombCelosia argentea
- South American VervainVerbena bonariensis
- Southern CatalpaCatalpa bignonioides
- Splitlip Hemp-nettleGaleopsis bifida
- Spreading SandmatEuphorbia humistrata
- True Forget-me-notMyosotis scorpioides
- Vietnamese BalmElsholtzia ciliata
- Water LettucePistia stratiotes
- WatercressNasturtium officinale
- Weeping WillowSalix babylonica
- Wild Four-o'clockMirabilis nyctaginea
- Wild Goose PlumPrunus munsoniana
- Wild PoinsettiaEuphorbia cyathophora
- Curly PondweedPotamogeton crispus
- Common Water-primroseLudwigia hexapetala
- Brazilian WaterweedEgeria densa
- Chinese Tallow-treeTriadica sebifera
- Golden BambooPhyllostachys aurea
- Orange-eye Butterfly-bushBuddleja davidii
- Trifoliate OrangeCitrus trifoliata
- Yellow IrisIris pseudacorus
- Alligator-weedAlternanthera philoxeroides
- Marsh DewflowerMurdannia keisak
- Parrot-featherMyriophyllum aquaticum
- Porcelain-berryAmpelopsis glandulosa
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.