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
- 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.