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

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:

• 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).