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Almost 100 other rare plants and animals depend on the wet prairie habitat, including the alligator snapping turtle, sweet pitcher plant, and Chapman's butterwort. Tarkiln Bayou Preserve State Park is located in Escambia County about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of the intersection of U.S. Hwy. 98 and State Road 293.
Pittman, Blair & William A. Owens (1978) The Natural World of the Texas Big Thicket (Louise Lindsey Merrick Texas Environment Series #2). Texas A&M University Press, College Station. 100 pp. ISBN 978-0890960615; Riggs, Rob (2001) In the Big Thicket on the Trail of the Wild Man: Exploring Nature's Mysterious Dimension.
Palmetto-oak flats habitat in the Pine Island Bayou basin. Big Thicket National Preserve, Hardin Co. Texas (October 2019) The Pine Island Bayou drainage basin is the very heart of the Big Thicket. The basin is sometimes referred to as the "Traditional Thicket" or "The Old Bear Hunters' Thicket" and it has a high diversity of flora and fauna.
Big Sandy Creek is a stream in Texas, United States. It rises in Polk County before flowing approximately 40 miles (64 km) southeast into Hardin County where it merges with Kimball Creek, forming Village Creek. [1] [2] Long sections of the creek pass through the Big Thicket National Preserve.
The Piney Woods is a temperate coniferous forest terrestrial ecoregion in the Southern United States covering 54,400 square miles (141,000 km 2) of East Texas, southern Arkansas, western Louisiana, and southeastern Oklahoma.
Sarracenia alata, also known as yellow trumpets, [1] pale pitcher plant or pale trumpet, is a carnivorous plant in the genus Sarracenia. Specifically, S. alata is an endemic species to North America ; it is native to the southeastern regions of the United States , including parts of the Gulf Coast states .
Big Thicket Lake Estates is located along the southern border of Polk County and the northern border of Liberty County. The CDP has a total area of 2.5 square miles (6.5 km 2), of which 2.4 square miles (6.1 km 2) are land and 0.2 square miles (0.5 km 2), or 7.39%, are water. [1]
Nepenthes attenboroughii (/ n ɪ ˈ p ɛ n θ iː z ˌ æ t ən ˈ b ʌr i aɪ,-ˌ æ t ən b ə ˈ r oʊ ɡ i aɪ /), or Attenborough's pitcher plant, [3] is a montane species of carnivorous pitcher plant of the genus Nepenthes. It is named after the celebrated broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough, [4] [5] who is a keen enthusiast ...