Green Treefrog (Hyla cinerea)

Green Treefrog (Hyla cinerea)

Washington Co., NC 6/21/06.

Green Treefrog (Hyla cinerea)

Cape Hatteras, Dare Co., NC 10/19/03.

Green Treefrog (Hyla cinerea)

Durham, NC 5/3/09.

Green Treefrog (Hyla cinerea)

Chatham Co., NC 9/18/10.

Green Treefrog (Hyla cinerea)

There were half a dozen on top of leaves in this one small Black Willow tree at the edge of Jordan Lake.

Chatham Co., NC 9/18/10.

Green Treefrog (Hyla cinerea)

This Green Treefrog was partially buried in the litter layer of a pine forest.

These large treefrogs formerly were restricted to the Coastal Plain in North Carolina, but are now regularly found in the lower Piedmont.

Chatham Co., NC 3/25/08.

Green Treefrog (Hyla cinerea)

Climbing a backyard fence in northern Chatham County, NC 3/26/03.

Green Treefrog can be very similar to Squirrel Treefrog (Hyla squirella). Green Treefrog normally has a well-defined lateral light stripe. The lateral light stripe of the variable Squirrel Treefrog, when present, is supposed to have indistinct lower border.

Green Treefrog (Hyla cinerea)

This one looks a bit like a Squirrel Treefrog, but Alvin Braswell, Curator for Herpetology at the N.C. State Museum of Natural Sciences, thinks it may be a stripeless Green Treefrog morph.

Falls Lake, Durham Co, NC 8/10/02.

Green Treefrog (Hyla cinerea)

Chatham County, NC 3/26/03.

All photographs and text ©2013 by Will Cook unless otherwise noted.