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
- Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- Eastern Wood-peweeContopus virens
- Eurasian Collared-doveStreptopelia decaocto
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Evening GrosbeakCoccothraustes vespertinus
- Fox SparrowPasserella iliaca
- Golden EagleAquila chrysaetos
- Golden-crowned KingletRegulus satrapa
- Golden-winged WarblerVermivora chrysoptera
- Gray CatbirdDumetella carolinensis
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Hairy WoodpeckerPicoides villosus
- Hermit ThrushCatharus guttatus
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- Hooded WarblerWilsonia citrina
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- Kentucky WarblerOporornis formosus
- KilldeerCharadrius vociferus
- Lark SparrowChondestes grammacus
- Least FlycatcherEmpidonax minimus
- Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
- Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolnii
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Long-eared OwlAsio otus
- Louisiana WaterthrushSeiurus motacilla
- Magnolia WarblerDendroica magnolia
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Marsh WrenCistothorus palustris
- Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
- Northern ParulaParula americana
- Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
- Northern Saw-whet OwlAegolius acadicus
- Olive-sided FlycatcherContopus cooperi
- Orange-crowned WarblerVermivora celata
- Orchard OrioleIcterus spurius
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
- Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatus
- Pine SiskinCarduelis pinus
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.