WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Drymarchon corais | Indigo Snake 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
The eastern indigo snake ranges from southern South Carolina south
through Florida and west to Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.  The
Texas indigo snake is found in southern Texas and Mexico [11].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
FRES12 Longleaf-slash pine
FRES13 Loblolly-shortleaf pine
FRES32 Texas savanna


STATES : 


    
AL
    
FL
	
GA
    
MS
    
SC
    
TX



    
MEXICO
    




BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K061  Mesquite - acacia savanna
   K062  Mesquite - live oak savanna
   K078  Southern cordgrass prairie
   K079  Palmetto prairie
   K080  Marl - everglades
   K091  Cypress savanna
   K092  Everglades
   K112  Southern mixed forest
   K113  Southern floodplain forest
   K115  Sand pine scrub
   K116  Subtropical pine forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    66  Ashe juniper - redberry (Pinchot) juniper
    68  Mesquite
    70  Longleaf pine
    71  Longleaf pine - scrub oak
    72  Southern scrub oak
    81  Loblolly pine
    82  Loblolly pine - hardwood
    84  Slash pine
    85  Slash pine - hardwood
    89  Live oak
   104  Sweetbay - swamp tupelo - redbay
   105  Tropical hardwoods
   111  South Florida slash pine
   241  Western live oak


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
The indigo snake is most abundant in the sandhill plant communities of
Florida and Georgia.  These communities are primarily scrub oak-longleaf
pine (Pinus palustris) with occasional live oak (Quercus virgianiana),
laurel oak (Q. laurifolia), Chapman's oak (Q. chapmanii), and myrtle oak
(Q. myrtifolia).  Other communities include longleaf pine-turkey oak (Q.
laevis), slash pine (Pinus elliottii)-scrub oak, pine flatwoods, and
pine-mesic hardwoods [1].


REFERENCES : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Wildlife Species: Drymarchon corais | Indigo Snake