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
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- Eastern Wood-peweeContopus virens
- Eurasian Collared-doveStreptopelia decaocto
- Eurasian WigeonAnas penelope
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- Fox SparrowPasserella iliaca
- Glossy IbisPlegadis falcinellus
- Golden-crowned KingletRegulus satrapa
- Gray CatbirdDumetella carolinensis
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Gull-billed TernGelochelidon nilotica
- Hairy WoodpeckerPicoides villosus
- Henslow's SparrowAmmodramus henslowii
- Hermit ThrushCatharus guttatus
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- Hooded WarblerWilsonia citrina
- Horned GrebePodiceps auritus
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- Kentucky WarblerOporornis formosus
- King RailRallus elegans
- Least FlycatcherEmpidonax minimus
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Louisiana WaterthrushSeiurus motacilla
- Magnolia WarblerDendroica magnolia
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Marsh WrenCistothorus palustris
- MerlinFalco columbarius
- Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
- Northern ParulaParula americana
- Northern Saw-whet OwlAegolius acadicus
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- Northern WaterthrushSeiurus noveboracensis
- Olive-sided FlycatcherContopus cooperi
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
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.