Habitat in West Virginia
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time. Schafale
- Plants
- 303
- Birds
- 143
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in West Virginia. Not a planting list.
- American PlumPrunus americana
- Black CherryPrunus serotina var. serotina
- Black WillowSalix nigra
- Grass-leaved Flat-top GoldenrodEuthamia graminifolia
- Peach Leaf WillowSalix amygdaloides
- Running Buffalo CloverTrifolium stoloniferum
- Southern CrabappleMalus angustifolia
- Sweet CrabappleMalus coronaria
- White Panicled Aster; Eastern Lined AsterSymphyotrichum lanceolatum var. latifolium
- Jerusalem ArtichokeHelianthus tuberosus
- Missouri VioletViola missouriensis
- Smooth Yellow VioletViola pubescens var. scabriuscula
- Pin OakQuercus palustris
- Shingle OakQuercus imbricaria
- Shumard OakQuercus shumardii
- Smooth BlackhawViburnum prunifolium
- Swamp White OakQuercus bicolor
- Eastern BoxelderAcer negundo var. negundo
- Eastern Red MapleAcer rubrum var. rubrum
- Silver MapleAcer saccharinum
- Spanish-needlesBidens bipinnata
- Tall Flat Top AsterDoellingeria umbellata var. umbellata
- Late-flowering ThoroughwortEupatorium serotinum
- Possumhaw ViburnumViburnum nudum
- Small BeggarticksBidens discoidea
- Golden RagwortPackera aurea
- Littlehip HawthornCrataegus spathulata
- Washington HawthornCrataegus phaenopyrum
- Canada VioletViola canadensis
- Hooded Blue VioletViola sororia
- LeConte's VioletViola affinis
- Southern Woodland VioletViola hirsutula
- Threepart VioletViola tripartita
- Pale SmartweedPersicaria lapathifolia
- Wild GeraniumGeranium maculatum
- Green HawthornCrataegus viridis var. viridis
- Pennsylvania HawthornCrataegus pennsylvanica
- White VervainVerbena urticifolia
- Wild Black CurrantRibes americanum
- WingstemVerbesina alternifolia
- Bog SmartweedPersicaria setacea
- Broadleaf IronweedVernonia glauca
- Climbing RoseRosa setigera
- Dotted SmartweedPersicaria punctata
- Giant IronweedVernonia gigantea
- JumpseedPersicaria virginiana
- New York IronweedVernonia noveboracensis
- Pennsylvania SmartweedPersicaria pensylvanica
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in West Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 143
- 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 Tree SparrowSpizella arborea
- American WoodcockScolopax minor
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Barred OwlStrix varia
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Bewick's WrenThryomanes bewickii
- Black VultureCoragyps atratus
- Black-and-White WarblerMniotilta varia
- Black-billed CuckooCoccyzus erythropthalmus
- Black-capped ChickadeePoecile atricapillus
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Black-throated Blue WarblerDendroica caerulescens
- Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
- Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Blue-winged TealAnas discors
- Blue-winged WarblerVermivora pinus
- Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterus
- Brown CreeperCerthia americana
- Brown ThrasherToxostoma rufum
- Brown-headed CowbirdMolothrus ater
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Canada WarblerWilsonia canadensis
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Carolina ChickadeePoecile carolinensis
- Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Cerulean WarblerDendroica cerulea
- Chestnut-sided WarblerDendroica pensylvanica
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common RavenCorvus corax
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
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)
Habitat classes are filed under these habitat types by reviewed matches; descriptions are short glosses.