Flora and Fauna At Gulf State Park

Southern Alabama’s Gulf State Park has some of the greatest views, wildlife and greenery. If you want to spot some of these specifically, you should know before you go!

Fauna

Mammals

1. Bobcat
2. Cottontail Rabbit
3. Eastern Gray Squirrel
4. Fox Squirrel
5. Red Fox
6. River Otter
7. Virgina Opposum
8. White-tailed deer

Reptiles

1. American Alligator
2. Yellow Bellied Slider (turtle)
3. Gulf Coast Spiny Softshell Turtle
4. Eastern Box Turtle
5. Gopher Tortoise
6. Common Snapping Turtle
7. Loggerhead Sea Turtle
8. Cottonmouth Snake (Venomous)
9. Pygmy Rattlesnake (Venomous)
10. Banded Water Snake
11. Black Racer Snake
12. Mud Snake
13. Southeastern Crown Snake
14. Ribbon Snake
15. Eastern Fence Lizard
16. Green Anole Lizard

Amphibians

1. Southern Leopard Frog
2. Green Treefrog
3. Pine Woods Tree Frog
4. Southern Toad

To see photos of these specific species, click here.

Flora

The type of flowers that bloom varies with the months:

January:

• Column Stinkhorn
• Yellow Jessamine

February:

• Bluejacket Spiderwort
• Devil’s Walking Stick
• Red Chokeberry
• Wax Myrtle
• Red Sorel
• Slender Yellow Woodsorrel

March:

• Blue Toadflax
• Buckwheat Titi
• Conradina
• Crowpoison
• Fetterbush
• Florida Hedgenettle
• Moss Verbena
• Sweet Olive
• Primrose-leaved Violet

April:

• Beach Sunflower
• Common Lantana
• Cutleaf Evening Primrose
• Spanish Bayonet Yucca
• Sparkleberry
• Texas Vervain
• White Prickly Poppy
• White-topped Sedge
• Yaupon Holly
• Lesser Centaury

May:

• Cherokee Bean
• Grasspink
• Indian Blanket
• Lilac Chaste Tree
• Pickerelweed
• Prickly Pear Cactus
• Savannah Meadowbeauty
• Spring Lady’s Tresses
• Stinging Nettle
• Yellow Colicroot

June:

• Arrowhead
• Beach Morning Glory
• Four Petal St. Johnswort
• Hairy Meadow Beauty
• Saltmarsh Mallow
• Saltmarsh Morning Glory

July:

• Butterfly Pea
• Cuban Jute
• Scarlet Rosemallow
• Swamp Rosemallow

August:

• American Beautyberry
• Partridge Pea
• Scarlet Calamint
• Showy Rattlebox
• Trailing Fuzzy Bean

September:

• Beach False Foxglove
• Blazing Star
• Dog’s Tongue
• Goldenrod
• Hairypod Cowpea
• Smooth Yellow False Foxglove
• Whitemouth Dayflower

October:

• Blackjack
• Blue Curls
• Tickseed

November:

• Scarlet Calamint

December:

• Groundsel
• Yaupon Holly

To see photos of each of these flowers, click here.

Published by Kelly Shulte
Thursday, July 18, 2024