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.
- Roanoke WitchgrassDichanthelium roanokense
- Shortleaf WitchgrassDichanthelium curtifolium
- Stalked PanicgrassColeataenia pulchra
- Swamp DockRumex verticillatus
- Winged SeedboxLudwigia alata
- Wingleaf Primrose-willowLudwigia decurrens
- Climbing HempweedMikania scandens
- Coastal Sweet-pepperbushClethra alnifolia
- Knotted RushJuncus nodosus
- Bald CypressTaxodium distichum
- Georgia LobeliaLobelia georgiana
- Long's BittercressCardamine longii
- Narrow Leaf SpeedwellVeronica scutellata
- Pond CypressTaxodium ascendens
- Starry Solomons PumeMaianthemum stellatum
- Swamp LeatherflowerClematis crispa
- Blue WitchgrassDichanthelium caerulescens
- Bog Witch GrassDichanthelium lucidum
- Coastal Plain WitchgrassDichanthelium longiligulatum
- Mattamuskeet Panic Grass, Mattamuskeet WitchgrassDichanthelium mattamuskeetense
- Panicum virgatum var. virgatumPanicum virgatum var. virgatum
- Savanna PanicgrassPhanopyrum gymnocarpon
- Shining Witchgrass; Cypress Panicgrass; Shining Witch Grass; Cypress Panic GrassDichanthelium dichotomum var. nitidum
- Small Fruit WitchgrassDichanthelium microcarpon
- Spotted-sheath WitchgrassDichanthelium yadkinense
- Brownfruit RushJuncus pelocarpus
- Canadian RushJuncus canadensis
- Leathery RushJuncus coriaceus
- Swamp LoosestrifeDecodon verticillatus
- Bulb-bearing Water-hemlockCicuta bulbifera
- Virginia DayflowerCommelina virginica
- Water HemlockCicuta maculata var. maculata
- Lanceleaf FrogfruitPhyla lanceolata
- Trumpet-creeperCampsis radicans
- Turk's-cap LilyLilium superbum
- Awned Mountain-mintPycnanthemum setosum
- Coastal Bog BentgrassAgrostis altissima
- Drooping BulrushScirpus lineatus
- Floating Marsh-pennywortHydrocotyle ranunculoides
- Shield Marsh-pennywortHydrocotyle verticillata
- Spreading BulrushScirpus divaricatus
- Upland BentgrassAgrostis perennans
- American Barnyard GrassEchinochloa muricata var. microstachya
- Compact DodderCuscuta compacta
- FringetreeChionanthus virginicus
- Switch CaneArundinaria tecta
- CrossvineBignonia capreolata
- False NettleBoehmeria cylindrica
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.