Flora & Fauna : Mississippi

The most common trees that grow in the forests of the uplands are post and white oaks, hickory, maple, and magnolia and various willows and gums (including the tupelo) in the Delta. Characteristic wild flowers include the green Virginia creeper, black-eyed Susan, and Cherokee rose. Price's potato-bean, the Louisiana quillwort, pond berry, and American chaff seed were listened as endangered or threatened.
Common among the state's mammals are the opossum, armadillo, coyote, eastern mole, mink, striped skunk, white-tailed deer, and diverse bats and mice. Birds include varieties of wren, thrush, warbler, vireo, and hawk, along with numerous waterfowl and seabirds.. Rare species in Mississippi include the hoary bat, American oystercatcher, mole salamander, pigmy killifish, Yazoo darker, and five species of crayfish. 34 species were listed as threatened or endangered in 2003. They include the American and Louisiana black bears, eastern indigo snake, Indiana bat, Mississippi sand hill crane, bald eagle, Mississippi gopher frog, brown pelican, red-cockaded woodpecker, five species of sea turtle, and the bayou darter.