Florida Animals and Plants
Be sure to select two so that you may compare and contrast your selected animals or plants. You can select two
birds or one bird and one mammal or one reptile and one plant, any combination of two you would like.
Birds
American osprey
Wild turkey
Indigo bunting
Little blue heron
Pileated woodpecker
Red-shouldered hawk
Roseate spoonbill
Bald eagle
Barred owl
Cormorant
Great egret
Anhinga
Limpkin
Wood stork
Nine-banded armadillo
Bobcat
Coyote
River otter
Bottle-nosed dolphin
West Indian manatee
Star-nosed mole
Ornate chorus frog
Barking treefrog
Oak toad
Gopher frog
Eastern spadefoot toad
Flatwoods salamander
Striped newt
Velvet ant
Phanaeus dung beetle
Green darner dragonfly
White peacock butterfly
Monarch
Zebra longwing
Florida walkingstick
Longleaf pine
Baldcypress
Sand pine
Live oak
Pond apple
Pond cypress
Eastern redcedar
Barn owl
Belted kingfisher
Burrowing owl
Florida scrub jay
Swallow-tailed kite
Turkey vulture
Green heron
Mammals
Florida panther
Big brown bat
Beaver
White-tailed deer
Southern flying squirrel
Pocket gopher
Florida black bear
Fox squirrel
Marsh rabbit
Virginia opossum
Florida mouse
Red fox
Short-tailed shrew
Feral pig
Amphibians & Reptiles
Southern dusky salamander
Southern red salamander
Two-toed amphiuma
Eastern diamondback rattlesnake
Eastern indigo snake
Eastern coral snake
Southern hognose snake
Invertebrates
Cicada
Katydid
Lubber grasshopper
Mole cricket
Blue crab
Horseshoe crab
Spinybacked orbweaver
Plants
Cabbage palm
Prickly pear cactus
Saw-palmetto
Fetter-bush
Spanish moss
Florida strap airplant
Gallberry
Broadhead skink
Florida scrub lizard
Green anole
Alligator
Gopher tortoise
Atlantic green turtle
Leatherback sea turtle
Black and yellow garden spider
Atlantic bay scallop
Eastern oyster
Variable coquina clam
Florida tree snail
Sea nettle
Sea anemone
Hooded pitcherplant
Yellow butterwort
Resurrection fern
Yellow jessamine
Florida strangler fig
Water-lettuce
Prairie iris