Animals & Plants of Congaree National Park
The 2 animals, plants, and fungi you can find at Congaree National Park, with sizes, diets, and whether you should worry. See the full park guide at Congaree National Park.
Anything here that bites?
Keep away
- American alligator: This one is genuinely dangerous, so the rules are simple and firm.
Everything else on this page is harmless. What each group means.
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Reptile American alligator
Alligator mississippiensis
A big, armor-backed reptile that floats like a log in southern swamps and rivers, the top predator of the wetlands at Everglades and Congaree.
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Plant Spanish moss
Tillandsia usneoides
Not a moss at all but a flowering air plant that drapes in gray strands from the branches of trees at Congaree and the Everglades.