Kingwood Center Gardens
Formal terraces, woodland paths, seasonal borders, a historic French Provincial mansion, greenhouse, and contemporary Garden Gateway fill a 47-acre Mansfield estate.
Ohio, United States: places and wildlife — page 4
Browse the published Explore collection for Ohio, United States. Open a discovery for its field guide, practical details, and background.
Cleveland Botanical Garden
A dramatic glasshouse moves between Madagascar’s dry spiny forest and Costa Rica’s cloud forest before paths unfold through Japanese, rose, woodland, restorative, and children’s gardens.
Columbus Zoo and Aquarium
One of the country’s largest zoo campuses combines seven geographic regions, conservation interpretation, an aquarium, rides, seasonal experiences, and enough walking to demand a route.
Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden
Opened in 1875, the nation’s second-oldest zoo layers celebrated animal habitats, mature trees, pollinator gardens, conservation science, and steep Cincinnati terrain into a compact urban campus.
Toledo Zoo & Aquarium
A pedestrian bridge joins animal habitats and a 178,000-gallon aquarium to an extraordinary cluster of Works Progress Administration buildings from the 1930s.
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Hillside paths connect African Elephant Crossing, primates, cats, bears, Australian habitats, and a vast indoor rainforest where a geodesic dome shelters a two-level tropical world.
Akron Zoo
More than 1,000 animals occupy themed habitats from Grizzly Ridge and Wild Asia to Pride of Africa, Madagascar, and Komodo Kingdom on a manageable but distinctly sloping campus.
Lake Erie Watersnake
This nonvenomous, often nearly patternless watersnake lives on the limestone islands of western Lake Erie, where invasive round gobies transformed most of its diet and helped fuel a celebrated recovery.
Ohio Buckeye
Ohio’s namesake tree is a small-to-medium woodland understory species recognized by five leaflets, upright yellow-green flower clusters, and mahogany seeds marked with a pale eye.
Lakeside Daisy
A rare Great Lakes endemic can turn nearly barren alvar gold for a single synchronized week, surviving in thin soil over limestone where few flowering plants tolerate heat, wind, and drought.
Great Lakes Piping Plover
A palm-sized shorebird nests almost invisibly on Great Lakes beaches, where one footprint, loose dog, or sudden water rise can matter.
Karner Blue Butterfly
A tiny endangered butterfly depends completely on wild lupine as a caterpillar and on frequently disturbed, flower-rich barrens throughout its life cycle.
Lake Sturgeon
An armor-plated fish can live for more than a century, migrating from Lake Winnebago into rocky rivers for a brief, spectacular spring spawn.
Walleye
Minnesota’s state fish is a low-light predator whose famous eyes, seasonal movements, and lake-by-lake management make it more interesting than a dinner plate.
Rusty Patched Bumble Bee
A once-common Upper Midwest pollinator now survives in scattered strongholds, including the Twin Cities, where an ordinary garden can become consequential habitat.
Carolina Wren
A warm-brown wren with a white eyebrow lives close to cover across South Carolina and serves as the state bird.
Carolina Wolf Spider
North America’s largest wolf spider patrols open ground after dark and is South Carolina’s official state spider.
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
This large striped butterfly, South Carolina’s state butterfly, moves between tree canopies, flowers, puddles, and host plants.
Carolina Mantid
South Carolina’s state insect is a gray, green, or brown ambush predator of gardens, old fields, and woodland edges.
Baltimore checkerspot
Black wings checked with cream and orange identify a wet-meadow butterfly whose official status contrasts with its rarity in Maryland.
Baltimore oriole
Maryland’s orange-and-black state bird whistles from leafy edges and suspends a woven pouch nest near a branch tip.
Black-eyed Susan
Rough-haired stems and golden rays around a raised brown center make Maryland’s state flower a familiar open-ground wildflower.
White oak
Maryland’s state tree supports insects and wildlife; rounded leaf lobes and pale bark reward a slower look in mature woodland.
Brook Trout
Follow this jewel-colored char from shaded headwaters to Adirondack ponds, where water quality shapes its future.
Common Snapping Turtle
A rugged freshwater turtle is easiest to notice when it leaves the water to nest, not while it lies hidden below.
Sugar Maple
Recognize New York's state tree by more than its color: bark, paired buds, and leaf shape tell the whole story.