Native wildlife

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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, including six species of poisonous serpents: copperheads, pygmy rattlesnakes, water maccasins, coral snakes, and Western diamondback rattlesnakes.

Animals

Birds:

Fish:

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:

Shrubs:

References

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

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