🌲The Piney🌲 Woods
By: Trevor and T.J.👍
About the piney woods...
The Piney Woods is a tropical and subtropical coniferous forest terrestrial ecoregion in the Southern United States covering 54,400 square miles of East Texas. The average rainfall of the piney woods is 32 to 50 inches per year. The elevation is from 100 ft. Above sea level up to 1000 ft. On ridges and peaks. The temperature is usually around the high 60's and low 70's.
Alligator snapping turtle
Found almost exclusively in the rivers, canals, and lakes of the southeastern United States, alligator snappers can live to be 50 to 100 years old. Males average 26 inches in shell length and weigh about 175 pounds, although they have been known to exceed 220 pounds. The much smaller females top out at around 50 pounds.
Red-cockaded woodpecker
The red-cockaded woodpecker is approximately 7 inches long, with a wingspan of about 15 inches. Its back is barred with black and white horizontal stripes. The red-cockaded woodpecker's most distinguishing feature is a black cap and nape that encircle large white cheek patches.
Common animals and plants
Animals:
Woodpeckers
Cotton mouths
Cotton tail rabbits
Squirrels
Plants:
Red maples
Red mulberry
Eastern redbud
Long leaf pine
The major cities of the piney woods
Endangered species (plants and animals)
Animals:
Alligator snapping turtle (as shown above)
Red-cockaded woodpecker (also shown above)
Bachmans sparrow
Henslows sparrow
Northern scarlet snake
Plants:
Tx trailing phlox
Tx ayenia
Tx snowbells
Walkers manioc
Johnostons frankenia