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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. |
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Revision as of 07:07, 19 July 2010
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:
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).
