Native wildlife

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

Birds:

• Swainson's warbler

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:

• Blackberry
• Brambles
• Dewberry
• Euonymus
• Marble Queen
• Wild Rose
• Elderberry

References

• Carl G. Hunter, Trees, Shrubs & Vines of Arkansas (Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 2000).