Delaware : Flora and Fauna

Delaware has a mix of common trees including black walnut, hickory, and sweet poplar and southern flora like shadbush and sassafras. white-tailed deer, red and gray foxes, eastern gray squirrel, muskrat, raccoon, woodcock, and common cottontail are some of the mammals which are native to Delaware. According to the US Fish and Wildlife Service in August 2003, bald eagle, puma, five species of sea turtle, three species of whale, and the Delmarva Peninsula fox squirrel are listed as endangered species.