Habitat in West Virginia
Ponds, lakes and their shores
Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs. Schafale
- Plants
- 109
- Birds
- 65
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in West Virginia. Not a planting list.
Most characteristic plants of this habitat 109
Natives first, plants found in fewer other habitats first.
- Sessile Fruit ArrowheadSagittaria rigida
- American Barnyard GrassEchinochloa muricata var. microstachya
- Diffuse RushJuncus diffusissimus
- Japanese MazusMazus pumilus
- Ludwigia grandifloraLudwigia grandiflora
- Redroot AmaranthAmaranthus retroflexus
- Weeping WillowSalix babylonica
- Hortulan PlumPrunus hortulana
- Brittle WaternymphNajas minor
- Eurasian Water-milfoilMyriophyllum spicatum
- Curly PondweedPotamogeton crispus
- Parrot-featherMyriophyllum aquaticum
- Yellow IrisIris pseudacorus
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in West Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
Most characteristic birds of this habitat 59
Ranked by how much of their habitat model this habitat is.
- BuffleheadBucephala albeola
- Common GoldeneyeBucephala clangula
- Eurasian WigeonAnas penelope
- Long-tailed DuckClangula hyemalis
- RedheadAythya americana
- Black TernChlidonias niger
- Blue-winged TealAnas discors
- Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphia
- Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
- Common LoonGavia immer
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Greater ScaupAythya marila
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
- Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podiceps
- Purple MartinProgne subis
- Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
- Surf ScoterMelanitta perspicillata
- Western SandpiperCalidris mauri
- American WigeonAnas americana
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- Ruddy DuckOxyura jamaicensis
- Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatus
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
- Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopus
- Tundra SwanCygnus columbianus
- American CootFulica americana
- Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
- GadwallAnas strepera
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Horned GrebePodiceps auritus
- Least BitternIxobrychus exilis
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- Wood DuckAix sponsa
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- Forster's TernSterna forsteri
- Great EgretArdea alba
Widespread birds also seen here (6)
Found in many habitats here, so not listed above.
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.