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has some chewed holes in the leaves, and a snail - observed here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/123753818 - perhaps the holes were made by the snail?

Very unexpected and exciting to find. Found on a rocky mountain slope near an outcrop.

Lifer!

found on calcareous prairie.

Lifer

Lifer!!! reclaimed 2 hours later

2nd individual since my lifer 3 years ago!

Roadside ditch population

On chinaberry tree (Melia azedarach).

3 adults flipped under one log

Spreading False-Foxglove, Aureolaria patula. Frozen Head State Park, Morgan County, Tennessee, USA.

Thoroughly intermingled with L. stylosa and L. uniflora

Open field on sandy river terrace. Rare. With Houstonia pusilla and Houstonia micrantha, which were common.

Looks like Ozark wakerobin but was found in Central AR (south of Ozark forest)

Confirmed by botanist and FWS

herb; last photo contrasts with the paler S. campestris

First record of the species in Tennessee.

Brown, G. J. Geographic Distribution: Graptemys pulchra (Alabama Map Turtle). Herpetological Review. State & County Record. 52: 574.

Psorthaspis mariae?

Female guarding nest

loc approx

Cumberland Dusky Salamander (Desmognathus abditus), Cumberland County, Tennessee

YEAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! I FOUND AN ANGLERFISH!!!!!!!

One of the last known sites for this species. Shown to me and identified by a botanist with knowledge of the plants/site.

With Brian Holt who is the original discoverer of this species in Alabama. See Holt 2015. Herp Rev 46(3):378-379.

Dominant in old channel scar depression embedded in flatwoods. Dense stand of small trees.