Habitat in Virginia
Swamps
Forested wetlands with standing water much of the year, such as cypress and gum swamps. Schafale
- Plants
- 318
- Birds
- 144
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in Virginia. Not a planting list.
- American Fly-honeysuckleLonicera canadensis
- Carolina AshFraxinus caroliniana
- Common ElderberrySambucus canadensis
- Green AshFraxinus pennsylvanica
- Pumpkin AshFraxinus profunda
- Pond PinePinus serotina
- Swamp TupeloNyssa biflora
- Water HickoryCarya aquatica
- Water TupeloNyssa aquatica
- Yellow BirchBetula alleghaniensis
- Black AshFraxinus nigra
- Shining FetterbushLyonia lucida
- Swamp RedbayTamala palustris
- Early St. John's-wortHypericum nudiflorum
- Virginia CreeperParthenocissus quinquefolia
- Common GreenbrierSmilax rotundifolia
- Coral GreenbrierSmilax walteri
- Laurel GreenbrierSmilax laurifolia
- SweetgumLiquidambar styraciflua
- Frasers Marsh St. JohnswortTriadenum fraseri
- Greater Marsh St. John's-wortTriadenum walteri
- Pale St. John's-wortHypericum ellipticum
- Purple MilkweedAsclepias purpurascens
- Virginia Marsh St. John's-wortTriadenum virginicum
- Coastal Carrion-flowerSmilax pseudochina
- Showy Tick TrefoilDesmodium canadense
- Buckthorn BumeliaSideroxylon lycioides
- Dioecious SedgeCarex sterilis
- Swamp CottonwoodPopulus heterophylla
- Fewflower MilkweedAsclepias lanceolata
- Hairy Hedge-nettleStachys arenicola
- Larger Blue Flag, Northern Blue FlagIris versicolor
- Red MilkweedAsclepias rubra
- Allegheny SedgeCarex debilis var. pubera
- Barratt's SedgeCarex barrattii
- Beaked Hazel Nut; Beaked HazelnutCorylus cornuta var. cornuta
- Bent SedgeCarex styloflexa
- Bristly SedgeCarex comosa
- Canebrake SedgeCarex austrodeflexa
- Carolina SedgeCarex caroliniana
- Cattail SedgeCarex typhina
- Collins's SedgeCarex collinsii
- Common NinebarkPhysocarpus opulifolius var. opulifolius
- Cypress-knee SedgeCarex decomposita
- Cypress-swamp SedgeCarex joorii
- Drooping SedgeCarex prasina
- False Hop SedgeCarex lupuliformis
- Fescue SedgeCarex festucacea
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 144
- Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
- Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- American WoodcockScolopax minor
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
- Barred OwlStrix varia
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black RailLaterallus jamaicensis
- Black VultureCoragyps atratus
- Black-and-White WarblerMniotilta varia
- Black-capped ChickadeePoecile atricapillus
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Black-throated Green WarblerDendroica virens
- Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
- Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Blue-headed VireoVireo solitarius
- Blue-winged WarblerVermivora pinus
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
- Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterus
- Brown CreeperCerthia americana
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Carolina ChickadeePoecile carolinensis
- Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Cerulean WarblerDendroica cerulea
- Chestnut-sided WarblerDendroica pensylvanica
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common RavenCorvus corax
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Downy WoodpeckerPicoides pubescens
- DunlinCalidris alpina
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)
- View, Dismal Swamp, North Carolina, Regis Francois Gignoux habitat picture
Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.