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.
- Black WillowSalix nigra
- Chickasaw PlumPrunus angustifolia
- Coastal Plain WillowSalix caroliniana
- Silky DogwoodSwida amomum
- Silky WillowSalix sericea
- Grass-leaved Flat-top GoldenrodEuthamia lanceolata
- Heart Leaf WillowSalix eriocephala
- Sandbar WillowSalix interior
- Stiff DogwoodSwida foemina
- Longstalk HollyIlex collina
- Pink AzaleaRhododendron periclymenoides
- Smooth AzaleaRhododendron arborescens
- Smooth BeggarticksBidens laevis
- Shingle OakQuercus imbricaria
- Smooth Yellow VioletViola eriocarpa
- Viola esculentaViola edulis
- Smooth BlackhawViburnum prunifolium
- Golden RagwortPackera aurea
- Black MapleAcer nigrum
- Eastern BoxelderAcer negundo var. negundo
- Silver MapleAcer saccharinum
- Coastal Plain Joe-pye-weedEutrochium dubium
- Rusty BlackhawViburnum rufidulum
- Smooth Arrow WoodViburnum recognitum
- Southern ArrowwoodViburnum dentatum
- Blue MistflowerConoclinium coelestinum
- Pear HawthornCrataegus calpodendron
- Fragrant Sumac; Squawbush; Squaw BushRhus aromatica var. aromatica
- White Morning-gloryIpomoea lacunosa
- LeConte's VioletViola affinis
- Northern Coastal VioletViola brittoniana
- Pectinate VioletViola pectinata
- Primrose-leaf VioletViola primulifolia
- Sweet White VioletViola blanda
- Blue VervainVerbena hastata
- ButtonbushCephalanthus occidentalis
- Swamp SmartweedPersicaria hydropiperoides
- Biennial BeeblossomOenothera gaura
- Crayton's HawthornCrataegus craytonii
- Green HawthornCrataegus viridis var. viridis
- Downy ArrowwoodViburnum rafinesqueanum
- False Indigo-bushAmorpha fruticosa
- Glaucous Evening PrimroseOenothera tetragona
- Halberd-leaf RosemallowHibiscus laevis
- Nantucket ServiceberryAmelanchier nantucketensis
- Red GrapeVitis palmata
- Sand GrapeVitis rupestris
- Broadleaf IronweedVernonia glauca
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.