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.
- Slender Yellow-eyed-grassXyris torta
- White CutgrassLeersia virginica
- Dwarf AnemoneAnemone quinquefolia var. minima
- Wirestem MuhlyMuhlenbergia frondosa
- Woodland MuhlyMuhlenbergia sylvatica
- American EelgrassVallisneria americana
- Kentucky CoffeetreeGymnocladus dioicus
- Mullein FoxgloveDasistoma macrophyllum
- Large Stem AlumrootHeuchera macrorhiza
- Bluntleaf WaterleafHydrophyllum canadense
- Early SaxifrageMicranthes virginiensis
- Giant CaneArundinaria gigantea
- Stiff CowbaneOxypolis rigidior
- Green False-helleboreVeratrum viride
- Southern Lady FernAthyrium filix-femina subsp. asplenioides
- Canadian WaterweedElodea canadensis
- Northern Barren-strawberryWaldsteinia fragarioides
- Nuttall's WaterweedElodea nuttallii
- Large-flower HeartleafHexastylis shuttleworthii
- Eastern Blue-eyed-grassSisyrinchium atlanticum
- Common HornwortCeratophyllum demersum
- Field HorsetailEquisetum arvense
- Scouring RushEquisetum praealtum
- Seaside BrookweedSamolus parviflorus
- Slender WaternymphNajas gracillima
- Spineless HornwortCeratophyllum echinatum
- Ferris Scouring RushEquisetum × ferrissii
- Water StargrassHeteranthera dubia
- Meadow SpikemossSelaginella apoda
- Sweet WoodreedCinna arundinacea
- Terrestrial Water-starwortCallitriche terrestris
- Vernal Water-starwortCallitriche palustris
- Allegheny BrookfoamBoykinia aconitifolia
- American FeatherfoilHottonia inflata
- Carolina Tassel-rueTrautvetteria caroliniensis
- Roundfruit Hedge-hyssopGratiola virginiana
- Sweet Indian-plantainHasteola suaveolens
- YellowrootXanthorhiza simplicissima
- Creeping Love GrassNeeragrostis reptans
- Ozark Tassel-rueTrautvetteria applanata
- Three Way Sedge; Threeway SedgeDulichium arundinaceum var. arundinaceum
- Virginia Sida; Virginia Mallow; Virginia FanpetalsRipariosida hermaphrodita
- Bracted VervainVerbena bracteata
- Calliopsis; Plains Coreopsis; Golden Tickseed; Ojos De Gato; Golden Tick SeedCoreopsis tinctoria var. tinctoria
- Chain SpeedwellVeronica catenata
- Coastal Plain Joe-pye-weedEutrochium dubium
- David's SpurgeEuphorbia davidii
- Diffuse RushJuncus diffusissimus
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.