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Estuaries and Sounds
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General Beaver Ponds and Semi-natural Impoundments
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Coastal Plain Still and Sluggish Waters
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Coastal Plain Herbaceous Ponds and Sloughs
Habitat Overview
This habitat includes permanent ponds and sloughs in the Coastal Plain that support dense masses of floating and submerged aquatic plants. Many of the sites occupied by this habitat represent natural depression ponds, including Carolina Bays, limesink ponds, and interdune ponds. Also included are beaver ponds, old mill ponds, borrow pits, and other shallow man-made ponds. This particular habitat is limited to the Coastal Plain, with the Determining Species found only or predominately in that region. The General Herbaceous Ponds habitat intersects with this habitat but also extends across the Piedmont and into the Mountains.
All of these habitats are open and very sunny, a critical factor for the high diversity of aquatic plants that are the Determining Species of this habitat. Swamp forests generally do not have enough insolation to support a high biomass of aquatic plants and are therefore not included. The Coastal Plain Sluggish Waters habitat intersects this habitat but also intersects swamp forests and is likewise treated separately.
Animal members of this habitat include herbivores such as the turtles and several moth species that have aquatic larvae that specialize on the plant members of this habitat. Also included are amphibious predators, such as the Dragonflies and Damselflies, that are adapted as nymphs to foraging within the submerged vegetation and as adults to hunting from perches on the emerged portions.
Related NHP Natural Communities
Coastal Plain Semipermanent Impoundment (Open Water Subtype), Small Depression Pond (Open Lily Pond Subtype), Natural Lake Shoreline Marsh (Lake Waccamaw Pond-Lily Subtype), Tidal Freshwater Marsh (Broadleaf Pondlily Subtype), Tidal Freshwater Marsh (Narrowleaf Pondlily Subtype), Freshwater Marsh Pool, Sand and Mud Bar (Narrowleaf Pond-Lily Subtype)
Determining Species
Taxa
Global Rank
State Rank
Probability of Extirpation (PE)
ODONATES
Celithemis amanda
- Amanda's Pennant
G5
S5
0.000000000
Celithemis bertha
- Red-veined Pennant
G5
S4
0.0007
Enallagma concisum
- Cherry Bluet
G4
S3
0.0058
Enallagma dubium
- Burgundy Bluet
G5
S3S4
0.0020
Enallagma minusculum
- Little Bluet
G4
SU
0.0020
Enallagma sulcatum
- Golden Bluet
G4
SU
0.0020
Phanogomphus australis
- Clearlake Clubtail
G4
S2
0.0460
FORBS
Ceratophyllum australe
- Southern Hornwort
GNR
S1
0.3584
Ceratophyllum echinatum
- Spineless Hornwort
G4
S2
0.0460
Hottonia inflata
- American Featherfoil
G4
S1
0.3584
Lemna aequinoctialis
- Lesser Duckweed
G5
S3
0.0058
Lemna obscura
- Little Duckweed
G5
S3
0.0058
Limnobium spongia
- American Frog's-bit
G4
S2S3
0.0164
Myriophyllum heterophyllum
- Variable-leaf Water-milfoil
G5
S3
0.0058
Myriophyllum laxum
- Loose Water-milfoil
G3
S2
0.0460
Myriophyllum pinnatum
- Cutleaf Water-milfoil
G5
S1
0.3584
Myriophyllum tenellum
- Slender Water-milfoil
G5
S1
0.3584
Nymphoides aquatica
- Big Floating-heart
G5
S3
0.0058
Nymphoides cordata
- Little Floating-heart
G5
S2
0.0460
Potamogeton confervoides
- Alga-like Pondweed
G4
S2
0.0460
Potamogeton illinoensis
- Illinois Pondweed
G5
S1
0.3584
Potamogeton perfoliatus
- Clasping-leaf Pondweed
G5
S3
0.0058
Utricularia biflora
- Two-flower Bladderwort
GNA
S4
Utricularia floridana
- Florida Yellow Bladderwort
G3G5
SH
Utricularia inflata
- Swollen Bladderwort
G5
S3
0.0058
Utricularia macrorhiza
- Common Bladderwort
G5
S1
0.3584
Utricularia olivacea
- Dwarf Bladderwort
G4
S2
0.0460
Utricularia purpurea
- Eastern Purple Bladderwort
G5
S3
0.0058
Utricularia radiata
- Floating Bladderwort
G4
S3
0.0058
Utricularia striata
- Striped Bladderwort
G4G5
S3
0.0058
MOTHS
Parapoynx allionealis
- Watermilfoil Leafcutter Moth
GNR
S3S4
0.0020
Parapoynx obscuralis
- Obscure Pondweed Moth
GNR
SU
0.0020
Parapoynx seminealis
- Floating-Heart Waterlily Moth
GNR
S3S4
0.0020
TURTLES
Pseudemys concinna floridana
Pseudemys rubriventris
- Northern Red-bellied Cooter
G5
S4
0.0007
Expected Number of Extirpations with a PE value (Sum of PE) = 2.5142
N = Number of Extant Species with a PE value = 31
Average PE = ENE/N = 0.0811
Number of S5 species = 1
Proportion of Secure Species = Number of S5 Species/N = 0.0323
Habitat Risk Index = ENE x (1 – PSS) = 2.4330
Phagic and Competitory Symbioses:
(Myriophyllum species/Parapoynx allionealis)
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Updated on
2020-11-27 12:52:54