Sunday, March 27, 2011

Animals & plants of the Florida Everglades

The Missing Gator of Gumbo Limbo by Jean Craighead George is a 4th-Grade classroom novel.

Photo by Steve Hillebrand, provided by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
This photograph is in the Public Domain.

Use these links to learn more about the animals and plants of the Florida Everglades:

anhinga (bird)
anole (lizard)
coot (bird)
Eastern diamondback rattlesnake
Florida cottonmouth (snake)
Florida kingsnake
Florida panther
gallinule (bird)
gambusia (mosquitofish)
garfish
green treefrog
mosquito
muskrat
oak toad
otter
pig frog
pintail duck
snapping turtle
snowy egret (bird)
squirrel treefrog
tree snail
vulture
white-crowned pigeon
zebra longwing butterfly

black ironwood
cabbage palm
coco plum
cypress
ghost orchid
giant leather fern
gumbo limbo tree
hydrilla
mastic tree
oak
pigeon plum
rabbit tobacco
resurrection fern
royal palm tree
sawgrass
soapberry
strangler fig
tallow wood
water lily
wax myrtle
West Indian mahogany
willow bustic

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