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.
- Black WillowSalix nigra
- Chickasaw PlumPrunus angustifolia
- Coastal Plain WillowSalix caroliniana
- Silky WillowSalix sericea
- Grass-leaved Flat-top GoldenrodEuthamia graminifolia
- Heart Leaf WillowSalix eriocephala
- Running Buffalo CloverTrifolium stoloniferum
- Sandbar WillowSalix interior
- Jerusalem ArtichokeHelianthus tuberosus
- Longstalk HollyIlex collina
- Prairie Red RootCeanothus herbaceus
- Pink AzaleaRhododendron periclymenoides
- Smooth AzaleaRhododendron arborescens
- Missouri VioletViola missouriensis
- Smooth BeggarticksBidens laevis
- Smooth Yellow VioletViola pubescens var. scabriuscula
- Shingle OakQuercus imbricaria
- Smooth BlackhawViburnum prunifolium
- Black MapleAcer nigrum
- Eastern BoxelderAcer negundo var. negundo
- Silver MapleAcer saccharinum
- Smooth Arrow WoodViburnum recognitum
- Southern ArrowwoodViburnum dentatum
- Blue MistflowerConoclinium coelestinum
- Golden RagwortPackera aurea
- Pear HawthornCrataegus calpodendron
- Fragrant Sumac; Squawbush; Squaw BushRhus aromatica var. aromatica
- White Morning-gloryIpomoea lacunosa
- Blue VervainVerbena hastata
- LeConte's VioletViola affinis
- Primrose-leaf VioletViola primulifolia
- Sweet White VioletViola blanda
- ButtonbushCephalanthus occidentalis
- Swamp SmartweedPersicaria hydropiperoides
- Biennial BeeblossomGaura biennis
- Downy ArrowwoodViburnum rafinesquianum
- False Indigo-bushAmorpha fruticosa
- Green HawthornCrataegus viridis var. viridis
- Halberd-leaf RosemallowHibiscus laevis
- Missouri GooseberryRibes missouriense
- Sand GrapeVitis rupestris
- Broadleaf IronweedVernonia glauca
- Climbing RoseRosa setigera
- Giant IronweedVernonia gigantea
- New York IronweedVernonia noveboracensis
- Swamp RoseRosa palustris
- Common Cut Leaf Coneflower; Green Head ConeflowerRudbeckia laciniata var. laciniata
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.