Habitat in West Virginia
Streams, rivers and their banks
Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals. Schafale
- Plants
- 232
- Birds
- 139
Plants
Plants that grow wild in this habitat in West Virginia. Not a planting list.
- Knotted RushJuncus nodosus
- Pennsylvania BittercressCardamine pensylvanica
- Woolly WitchgrassDichanthelium scabriusculum
- American SpeedwellVeronica americana
- Anglestem Primrose-willowLudwigia leptocarpa
- Bulb-bearing Water-hemlockCicuta bulbifera
- Canadian RushJuncus canadensis
- Water SpeedwellVeronica anagallis-aquatica
- Earlyleaf BromeBromus latiglumis
- Fringed BromeBromus ciliatus
- Great Blue LobeliaLobelia siphilitica
- Canadian LousewortPedicularis canadensis
- Floating Marsh-pennywortHydrocotyle ranunculoides
- Purpleleaf WillowherbEpilobium coloratum
- Whitemouth DayflowerCommelina erecta var. erecta
- American Bur-reedSparganium americanum
- Greenfruit Bur-reedSparganium emersum var. acaule
- Lanceleaf FrogfruitPhyla lanceolata
- American GroundnutApios americana
- Bluejoint; Canada Reed GrassCalamagrostis canadensis var. canadensis
- Culver's-rootVeronicastrum virginicum
- Cuscuta gronovii var. gronoviiCuscuta gronovii var. gronovii
- Oakes' pondweedPotamogeton oakesianus
- Spiral Pondweed, Northern Snailseed PondweedPotamogeton spirillus
- American LotusNelumbo lutea
- Floating PondweedPotamogeton natans
- Fragrant FlatsedgeCyperus odoratus
- Globe FlatsedgeCyperus echinatus
- Illinois PondweedPotamogeton illinoensis
- Largeleaf PondweedPotamogeton amplifolius
- Longleaf PondweedPotamogeton nodosus
- Ribbonleaf PondweedPotamogeton epihydrus
- Slender FlatsedgeCyperus bipartitus
- Small PondweedPotamogeton pusillus
- Snail-seed PondweedPotamogeton bicupulatus
- Spotted PondweedPotamogeton pulcher
- Thymeleaf BluetHoustonia serpyllifolia
- Waterthread PondweedPotamogeton diversifolius
- White TurtleheadChelone glabra
- River OatsChasmanthium latifolium
- Sandbar LovegrassEragrostis frankii
- Teal LovegrassEragrostis hypnoides
- Water-shieldBrasenia schreberi
- Bald SpikerushEleocharis erythropoda
- Needle SpikerushEleocharis acicularis
- Variable-leaf Water-milfoilMyriophyllum heterophyllum
- Golden-clubOrontium aquaticum
- Rice CutgrassLeersia oryzoides
Wildlife
Animals whose habitat model includes this habitat in West Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
Birds 139
- Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
- Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- 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
- Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
- Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Blue-winged WarblerVermivora pinus
- Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterus
- Brown CreeperCerthia americana
- Brown ThrasherToxostoma rufum
- Brown-headed CowbirdMolothrus ater
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- 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
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Downy WoodpeckerPicoides pubescens
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
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.