Choctaw Cultural Center
A Choctaw Nation institution follows fourteen thousand years of history through origin, homeland, removal, rebuilding, language, art, and community.
Oklahoma, United States: places and wildlife — page 4
Browse the published Explore collection for Oklahoma, United States. Open a discovery for its field guide, practical details, and background.
Woolaroc Museum & Wildlife Preserve
Frank Phillips’s ranch preserves Western art, aircraft, firearms, cultural collections, and a drive-through animal landscape in one idiosyncratic institution.
Woody Guthrie Center
Songs, drawings, notebooks, instruments, and personal archives reveal an Oklahoma artist who treated music as reporting, protest, humor, and autobiography.
Bob Dylan Center
More than one hundred thousand archival items open the working process behind songs, performances, films, visual art, and a deliberately changeable public persona.
Stafford Air & Space Museum
Gemini and Apollo artifacts, aircraft, engines, and a Titan II connect Weatherford native Thomas Stafford to a much larger aerospace system.
Science Museum Oklahoma
Large-scale hands-on exhibits, aviation, live science, astronomy, and making reward curiosity but require a plan.
Will Rogers Memorial Museum
Personal objects, films, writings, and a hilltop memorial reveal how Will Rogers turned observation into a national public voice.
Oklahoma City Museum of Art
A major Chihuly glass collection, international films, exhibitions, and modern art anchor downtown Oklahoma City’s visual-arts district.
Green Ash
Green ash once seemed almost indestructible across northern towns and river bottoms; emerald ash borer has changed that assumption permanently.
White-lined Sphinx
This powerful moth can look like a hummingbird at dusk, hovering precisely while its long tongue reaches deep tubular flowers.
Scarlet Globemallow
Scarlet globemallow places brilliant orange cups only inches above dry prairie soil, often where little else appears lush.
Prairie Blazing Star
Tall violet spikes begin blooming at the top, turning a prairie’s normal bottom-up expectations literally upside down.
Rattlesnake Master
Pale globes and swordlike leaves make this carrot-family plant look as if it belongs to a completely different botanical neighborhood.
Shagbark Hickory
Long bark strips lift away from an old trunk, creating both the tree’s name and summer roost crevices for bats.
Antelope-horns Milkweed
Curved seed pods suggest antelope horns, while greenish flower balls feed early-season pollinators across dry southern prairie.
Indian Blanket
Oklahoma’s state wildflower brings red-and-yellow color to dry roadsides for months, but its common name should not be treated as a generic Indigenous design license.
Post Oak
Post oak forms the stubborn skeletal framework of the Cross Timbers, where slow growth records drought, fire, and poor soil.
Blackjack Oak
Thick leathery leaves and a scrappy crown let blackjack oak occupy soils where richer forest trees grow poorly.
Bobolink
A bubbling metallic song tumbles over spring grass from a bird that will later migrate all the way to southern South America.
Ozark Big-eared Bat
Enormous ears make this rare bat visually unmistakable, but entering its cave to confirm a sighting can threaten the very colony being sought.
Loblolly Pine
Arkansas’s state tree is a fast-growing southern pine whose long three-needle bundles, broad bark plates, and working-forest history shape the Coastal Plain.
Northern Mockingbird
Arkansas’s state bird patrols open neighborhood territories, flashing white wings and stitching other birds’ sounds into long improvised songs.
Diana Fritillary
Arkansas’s state butterfly appears to be two species until sex explains the palette: orange-banded males and larger blue-spotted females share one violet-dependent forest life cycle.
American Alligator
Louisiana’s largest native reptile engineers wetland habitat, survives seasonal cold through dens, and demands generous distance wherever fresh water meets land.
Swamp Rabbit
Louisiana’s largest cottontail lives close to water, swims readily, and hides in dense floodplain cover where most observers see only tracks or a bounding tail.
Alligator Gar
North America’s largest gar is an air-breathing floodplain fish whose armored body and broad snout conceal a life history paced by rare, well-timed inundation.
Bald Cypress
Louisiana’s state tree is a deciduous conifer built for floodplain life, capable of forming ancient forests where buttressed trunks rise from seasonal water.
Black-capped Vireo
A small migratory songbird depends on a shifting mosaic of low shrubs and openings maintained by disturbance, browsing, and careful land management.
Texas Kangaroo Rat
A large four-toed kangaroo rat lives in firm clay country rather than loose desert sand, storing seeds in burrows across a narrow north-central Texas range.
Texas Horned Lizard
The familiar “horny toad” is a specialized ant-eating lizard whose camouflage, road use, and need for open ground make casual sightings increasingly memorable.
Texas Bluebonnet
Texas’s most recognized spring flower is an annual lupine whose bloom depends on weather, seed banks, pollination, and disturbance—not a guaranteed roadside calendar.
Greater Roadrunner
New Mexico’s state bird is a large ground-dwelling cuckoo: a fast, territorial hunter that rudders with its tail, flashes white wing patches, warms dark skin in the morning sun, and sounds nothing like a cartoon beep.
Two-needle Piñon Pine
New Mexico’s state tree is a small, slow-growing pine that builds vast woodlands with juniper, feeds birds, mammals, and people with unusually large seeds, and records drought visibly in its crown.
Two-tailed Swallowtail
Arizona’s enormous yellow state butterfly patrols canyon streams and gardens, flashing black tiger stripes and two tails on each hindwing.
Mountain Bluebird
Idaho’s state bird flashes an almost unbroken blue across open mountain and sage country, often hovering briefly before dropping onto ground prey.
Wyoming Indian Paintbrush
The brilliant color belongs mostly to bracts, while the true flowers are smaller and tucked among them.
Indiana Bat
A small social bat winters in a few cold caves, migrates to summer forest roosts, and carries the name of the state where science first described it.
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.
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.
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.