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| − | '''Native wildlife''' in Central Arkansas breaks down into a number of categories. The state is notable for its wide variety of animal and plant species. | + | '''Native wildlife''' in Central Arkansas breaks down into a number of categories. The state is notable for its wide variety of animal and plant species, including six species of poisonous serpents: copperheads, pygmy rattlesnakes, water maccasins, coral snakes, and Western diamondback rattlesnakes. |
====Animals==== | ====Animals==== | ||
| + | |||
| + | ''Birds:'' | ||
*[[Swainson's warbler]] | *[[Swainson's warbler]] | ||
| + | |||
| + | ''Butterflies:'' | ||
| + | |||
| + | *Silver-spotted Skipped | ||
| + | *Long-tailed Skipper | ||
| + | *Golden-banded Skipper | ||
| + | *Hoary Edge | ||
| + | *S. Cloudy Wing | ||
| + | *N. Cloudy Wing | ||
| + | *Confused Cloudy Wing | ||
| + | *Hayhurst's Scallopwing | ||
| + | *Dreamy Dusky Wing | ||
| + | *Sleepy Dusky Wing | ||
| + | *Juvenal's Dusky Wing | ||
| + | *Horace's Dusky Wing | ||
| + | *Mottled Dusky Wing | ||
| + | *Funereal Dusky Wing | ||
| + | *Wild Indigo Dusky Wing | ||
| + | *C. Checkered Skipper | ||
| + | *C. Sootywing | ||
| + | *Swarthy Skipper | ||
| + | *Clouded Skipper | ||
| + | *Least Skipper | ||
| + | *Southern Skipperling | ||
| + | *Fiery Skipper | ||
| + | *Leonard's Skipper | ||
| + | *Cobweb Skipper | ||
| + | *Meske's Skipper | ||
| + | *Tawny-edged Skipper | ||
| + | *Crossline Skipper | ||
| + | *Whirlabout | ||
| + | *S. Broken Dash | ||
| + | *N. Broken Dash | ||
| + | *Little Glassywing | ||
| + | *Sachem | ||
| + | *Arogos Skipper | ||
| + | *Delaware Skipper | ||
| + | *Byssus Skipper | ||
| + | *Hobomok Skipper | ||
| + | *Zabulon Skipper | ||
| + | *Yehl Skipper | ||
| + | *Broad-winged Skipper | ||
| + | *Dion Skipper | ||
| + | *Duke's Skipper | ||
| + | *Dun Skipper | ||
| + | *Dusted Skipper | ||
| + | *Linda's Roadside Skipper | ||
| + | *Pepper and Salt Skipper | ||
| + | *Lace-winged Roadside Skipper | ||
| + | *Carolina Roadside Skipper | ||
| + | *Common Roadside Skipper | ||
| + | *Bell's Roadside Skipper | ||
| + | *Dusky Roadside Skipper | ||
| + | *Eufala Skipper | ||
| + | *Brazilian Skipper | ||
| + | *Ocala Skipper | ||
| + | *Yucca Giant Skipper | ||
| + | *Pipevine Swallowtail | ||
| + | *Zebra Swallowtail | ||
| + | *Black Swallowtail | ||
| + | *Ozark Swallowtail | ||
| + | *Giant Swallowtail | ||
| + | *E. Tiger Swallowtail | ||
| + | *Spicebush Swallowtail | ||
| + | *Checkered White | ||
| + | *Cabbage White | ||
| + | *Olympia Marble | ||
| + | *Falcate Orangetip | ||
| + | *Clouded Sulphur | ||
| + | *Orange Sulphur | ||
| + | *S. Dogface | ||
| + | *Cloudless Sulphur | ||
| + | *Little Yellow | ||
| + | *Sleepy Orange | ||
| + | *Dainty Sulphur | ||
| + | *Juniper Hairstreak | ||
| + | *E. Pine Elfin | ||
| + | *Harvester | ||
| + | *American Copper | ||
| + | *Bronze Copper | ||
| + | *Great Purple Hairstreak | ||
| + | *Frosted Elfin | ||
| + | *Henry's Elfin | ||
| + | *Coral Hairstreak | ||
| + | *Edward's Hairstreak | ||
| + | *Banded Hairstreak | ||
| + | *Hickory Hairstreak | ||
| + | *King's Hairstreak | ||
| + | *Striped Hairstreak | ||
| + | *Oak Hairstreak | ||
| + | *Red-banded Hairstreak | ||
| + | *Gray Hairstreak | ||
| + | *White M. Hairstreak | ||
| + | *Reakirt's Blue | ||
| + | *Eastern Tailed-Blue | ||
| + | *Spring Azure | ||
| + | *Summer Azure | ||
| + | *Appalachian Azure | ||
| + | *Dusky Azure | ||
| + | *Silvery Blue | ||
| + | *Northern Metalmark | ||
| + | *Swamp Metalmark | ||
| + | *American Snout | ||
| + | *Monarch | ||
| + | *Gulf Fritillary | ||
| + | *Variegated Fritillary | ||
| + | *Diana Fritillary | ||
| + | *Gorgone Checkerspot | ||
| + | *Phaon Crescent | ||
| + | *Pearl Crescent | ||
| + | *Baltimore Checkerspot | ||
| + | *Question Mark | ||
| + | *Eastern Comma | ||
| + | *Gray Comma | ||
| + | *Mourning Cloak | ||
| + | *Red Admiral | ||
| + | *American Lady | ||
| + | *Painted Lady | ||
| + | *Common Buckeye | ||
| + | *Red-spotted Purple | ||
| + | *Viceroy | ||
| + | *Goatweed Leafwing | ||
| + | *Hackberry Emperor | ||
| + | *Tawny Emperor | ||
| + | *S. Pearly-Eye | ||
| + | *N. Pearly-Eye | ||
| + | *Creole Pearly-Eye | ||
| + | *Gemmed Satyr | ||
| + | *Carolina Satyr | ||
| + | *Georgia Satyr | ||
| + | *Little Wood Satyr | ||
| + | *C. Wood Nymph | ||
| + | |||
| + | ''Fish:'' | ||
| + | |||
| + | *[[Lake Sturgeon]] | ||
| + | *[[Alabama Shad]] | ||
| + | *[[Ozark Cavefish]] | ||
| + | *[[Alligator Gar]] | ||
| + | *[[Crystal Darter]] | ||
| + | *[[Ozark Chub]] | ||
| + | *[[Arkansas Darter]] | ||
| + | *[[Strawberry River Darter]] | ||
| + | *[[Least Darter]] | ||
| + | *[[Yellowcheek Darter]] | ||
| + | *[[Paleback Darter]] | ||
| + | *[[Goldstripe Darter]] | ||
| + | *[[Current Darter]] | ||
| + | *[[Least Brook Lamprey]] | ||
| + | *[[American Brook Lamprey]] | ||
| + | *[[Ouachita Mountain Shiner]] | ||
| + | *[[Sturgeon Chub]] | ||
| + | *[[Sicklefin Chub]] | ||
| + | *[[Silver Redhorse]] | ||
| + | *[[Blackspot Shiner]] | ||
| + | *[[Kiamichi Shiner]] | ||
| + | *[[Peppered Shiner]] | ||
| + | *[[Ouachita Madtom]] | ||
| + | *[[Caddo Madtom]] | ||
| + | *[[Longnose Darter]] | ||
| + | *[[Ouachita Darter]] | ||
| + | *[[Leopard Darter]] | ||
| + | *[[Slenderhead Darter]] | ||
| + | *[[Paddlefish]] | ||
| + | *[[Bluehead Shiner]] | ||
| + | *[[Pallid Sturgeon]] | ||
| + | *[[Southern Cavefish]] | ||
| + | |||
| + | ''Snakes:'' | ||
| + | |||
| + | *Broad-banded Water Snake | ||
| + | *Bullsnake | ||
| + | *Coluber constrictor | ||
| + | *Common Garter Snake | ||
| + | *Diamondback Water Snake | ||
| + | *Eastern Coachwhip | ||
| + | *Eastern Corn Snake | ||
| + | *Eastern Hognose Snake | ||
| + | *Eastern Racer | ||
| + | *Flathead Snake | ||
| + | *Graham's Crayfish Snake | ||
| + | *Ground Snake | ||
| + | *Gulf Crayfish Snake | ||
| + | *Lined Snake | ||
| + | *Midland Brown Snake | ||
| + | *Midland Rat Snake | ||
| + | *Midland Water Snake | ||
| + | *Midwest Worm Snake | ||
| + | *Milk Snake | ||
| + | *Mississippi Green Water Snake | ||
| + | *Northern Pine Snake | ||
| + | *Northern Scarlet Snake | ||
| + | *Plainbelly Water Snake | ||
| + | *Prairie Kingsnake | ||
| + | *Queen Snake | ||
| + | *Redbelly Snake | ||
| + | *Ringneck Snake | ||
| + | *Rough Earth Snake | ||
| + | *Rough Green Snake | ||
| + | *Slowinski's Corn Snake | ||
| + | *Southern Copperhead | ||
| + | *Speckled Kingsnake | ||
| + | *Texas Coral Snake | ||
| + | *Timber Rattlesnake | ||
| + | *Western Cottonmouth | ||
| + | *Western Diamondback Rattlesnake | ||
| + | *Western Earth Snake | ||
| + | *Western Mud Snake | ||
| + | *Western Pigmy Rattlesnake | ||
| + | *Western Rat Snake | ||
| + | *Western Ribbon Snake | ||
| + | *Western Worm Snake | ||
====Plants==== | ====Plants==== | ||
Latest revision as of 13:52, 9 May 2011
Native wildlife in Central Arkansas breaks down into a number of categories. The state is notable for its wide variety of animal and plant species, including six species of poisonous serpents: copperheads, pygmy rattlesnakes, water maccasins, coral snakes, and Western diamondback rattlesnakes.
Contents
Animals
Birds:
Butterflies:
- Silver-spotted Skipped
- Long-tailed Skipper
- Golden-banded Skipper
- Hoary Edge
- S. Cloudy Wing
- N. Cloudy Wing
- Confused Cloudy Wing
- Hayhurst's Scallopwing
- Dreamy Dusky Wing
- Sleepy Dusky Wing
- Juvenal's Dusky Wing
- Horace's Dusky Wing
- Mottled Dusky Wing
- Funereal Dusky Wing
- Wild Indigo Dusky Wing
- C. Checkered Skipper
- C. Sootywing
- Swarthy Skipper
- Clouded Skipper
- Least Skipper
- Southern Skipperling
- Fiery Skipper
- Leonard's Skipper
- Cobweb Skipper
- Meske's Skipper
- Tawny-edged Skipper
- Crossline Skipper
- Whirlabout
- S. Broken Dash
- N. Broken Dash
- Little Glassywing
- Sachem
- Arogos Skipper
- Delaware Skipper
- Byssus Skipper
- Hobomok Skipper
- Zabulon Skipper
- Yehl Skipper
- Broad-winged Skipper
- Dion Skipper
- Duke's Skipper
- Dun Skipper
- Dusted Skipper
- Linda's Roadside Skipper
- Pepper and Salt Skipper
- Lace-winged Roadside Skipper
- Carolina Roadside Skipper
- Common Roadside Skipper
- Bell's Roadside Skipper
- Dusky Roadside Skipper
- Eufala Skipper
- Brazilian Skipper
- Ocala Skipper
- Yucca Giant Skipper
- Pipevine Swallowtail
- Zebra Swallowtail
- Black Swallowtail
- Ozark Swallowtail
- Giant Swallowtail
- E. Tiger Swallowtail
- Spicebush Swallowtail
- Checkered White
- Cabbage White
- Olympia Marble
- Falcate Orangetip
- Clouded Sulphur
- Orange Sulphur
- S. Dogface
- Cloudless Sulphur
- Little Yellow
- Sleepy Orange
- Dainty Sulphur
- Juniper Hairstreak
- E. Pine Elfin
- Harvester
- American Copper
- Bronze Copper
- Great Purple Hairstreak
- Frosted Elfin
- Henry's Elfin
- Coral Hairstreak
- Edward's Hairstreak
- Banded Hairstreak
- Hickory Hairstreak
- King's Hairstreak
- Striped Hairstreak
- Oak Hairstreak
- Red-banded Hairstreak
- Gray Hairstreak
- White M. Hairstreak
- Reakirt's Blue
- Eastern Tailed-Blue
- Spring Azure
- Summer Azure
- Appalachian Azure
- Dusky Azure
- Silvery Blue
- Northern Metalmark
- Swamp Metalmark
- American Snout
- Monarch
- Gulf Fritillary
- Variegated Fritillary
- Diana Fritillary
- Gorgone Checkerspot
- Phaon Crescent
- Pearl Crescent
- Baltimore Checkerspot
- Question Mark
- Eastern Comma
- Gray Comma
- Mourning Cloak
- Red Admiral
- American Lady
- Painted Lady
- Common Buckeye
- Red-spotted Purple
- Viceroy
- Goatweed Leafwing
- Hackberry Emperor
- Tawny Emperor
- S. Pearly-Eye
- N. Pearly-Eye
- Creole Pearly-Eye
- Gemmed Satyr
- Carolina Satyr
- Georgia Satyr
- Little Wood Satyr
- C. Wood Nymph
Fish:
- Lake Sturgeon
- Alabama Shad
- Ozark Cavefish
- Alligator Gar
- Crystal Darter
- Ozark Chub
- Arkansas Darter
- Strawberry River Darter
- Least Darter
- Yellowcheek Darter
- Paleback Darter
- Goldstripe Darter
- Current Darter
- Least Brook Lamprey
- American Brook Lamprey
- Ouachita Mountain Shiner
- Sturgeon Chub
- Sicklefin Chub
- Silver Redhorse
- Blackspot Shiner
- Kiamichi Shiner
- Peppered Shiner
- Ouachita Madtom
- Caddo Madtom
- Longnose Darter
- Ouachita Darter
- Leopard Darter
- Slenderhead Darter
- Paddlefish
- Bluehead Shiner
- Pallid Sturgeon
- Southern Cavefish
Snakes:
- Broad-banded Water Snake
- Bullsnake
- Coluber constrictor
- Common Garter Snake
- Diamondback Water Snake
- Eastern Coachwhip
- Eastern Corn Snake
- Eastern Hognose Snake
- Eastern Racer
- Flathead Snake
- Graham's Crayfish Snake
- Ground Snake
- Gulf Crayfish Snake
- Lined Snake
- Midland Brown Snake
- Midland Rat Snake
- Midland Water Snake
- Midwest Worm Snake
- Milk Snake
- Mississippi Green Water Snake
- Northern Pine Snake
- Northern Scarlet Snake
- Plainbelly Water Snake
- Prairie Kingsnake
- Queen Snake
- Redbelly Snake
- Ringneck Snake
- Rough Earth Snake
- Rough Green Snake
- Slowinski's Corn Snake
- Southern Copperhead
- Speckled Kingsnake
- Texas Coral Snake
- Timber Rattlesnake
- Western Cottonmouth
- Western Diamondback Rattlesnake
- Western Earth Snake
- Western Mud Snake
- Western Pigmy Rattlesnake
- Western Rat Snake
- Western Ribbon Snake
- Western Worm Snake
Plants
Arkansas is classified within the North American Atlantic Region by geobotanists.
Trees:
- American Elm
- American Persimmon
- American Sycamore
- Bald Cypress
- Black Cherry
- Black Walnut
- Black Willow
- Box Elder
- Chokecherry
- Common Apple
- Eastern Red Cedar
- Flowering Dogwood
- River Birch
- Sassafras
- Shagbark Hickory
- Shortleaf Pine
- Smooth Sumac
- Sweetgum
- White Oak
- Wild Plum
- Winged Elm
Shrubs:
References
- Carl G. Hunter, Trees, Shrubs & Vines of Arkansas (Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 2000).
