Southeast Coastal Plain Buttonbush Pond

Type:Association
Parent classification:Coastal Plain Buttonbush Shrub Swamp
Scientific Name:Cephalanthus occidentalis Southeast Coastal Plain Shrub Swamp
Location:United States (Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, South Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia)
Description:This shrub swamp is dominated by Cephalanthus occidentalis and occurs widely throughout the southeastern coastal plain of the United States, in shallow water depressions, oxbow ponds, beaver ponds, and backwater sloughs of stream and river floodplains, as well as in upland pond depressions.
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Species

Name
Agkistrodon piscivorus (conanti)
Aix sponsa (Wood Duck)
Anas rubripes (American Black Duck)
Ardea herodias (Great Blue Heron)
Castor canadensis (american beaver)
Coccyzus americanus (Yellow-billed Cuckoo)
Dumetella carolinensis (Grey Catbird)
Faxonius lancifer
Geothlypis trichas (Common Yellowthroat)
Hybognathus hayi (Cypress minnow)
Lithobates palustris (Pickerel Frog)
Lithobates pipiens (Northern Leopard Frog)
Lontra canadensis (northern river otter)
Lophodytes cucullatus (Hooded Merganser)
Ondatra zibethicus (muskrat)
Parkesia motacilla (Louisiana Waterthrush)
Parkesia noveboracensis (Northern Waterthrush)
Procyon lotor (Raccoon)
Pseudacris crucifer (Spring Peeper)
Pseudacris streckeri (Strecker's Chorus Frog)
Setophaga petechia (Yellow Warbler)

Habitat Vegetation Classification provided by NatureServe Explorer