Plants & Wildlife

Intro

This page is under construction. In the meantime, here is an incomplete list of some of the many species found in Carolina bays, along with some species cards:

REPTILES

AMPHIBIANS

PLANTS

MAMMALS

Plants

Venus flytrap
Yellow pitcher plant
Grass pink
Orange fringed orchid
Orange milkwort
Boykin’s lobelia
Hatpins/Pipeworts
Pond cypress
Wire grass

Amphibians

Carolina Gopher Frog
Maybee’s Salamander
Tiger Salamander
Fowler’s Toad
Ornate Chorus Frog
Oak Toad
Barking Treefrog
Green Treefrog

Reptiles

American Alligator
Red-bellied Water Snake
Chicken Turtle
Ribbon Snake
Yellow- Bellied Slider
Southern Hognose snake
Pigmy Rattlesnake
Timber Rattlesnake

Birds

Great Egret
Anhinga
Cattle Egret
Red Winged Blackbird
Purple gallinule
Red Cockaded Woodpecker
Bachman’s Sparrow
Northern Bobwhite
Yellow-throated Warbler

Mammals

Seminole Bat
Southeastern Myotis
Tri-colored Bat
Star-nosed Mole

Invertebrates

Sandhills crayfish
Marsh imp firefly
Blue dasher dragonfly
Southern pines bumble bee
Frosted elfin butterfly
Sundew cutworm moth
Venus flytrap cutworm moth

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