State guide

Mississippi Nature Guide

Mississippi runs from the loess bluffs and the vast alluvial flatness of the Delta in the northwest, through the rolling Black Belt prairie and the pine-clad hills of the interior, down to the live-oak coast and the white-sand barrier islands of the Gulf. It is a humid, subtropical state strung along the heart of the Mississippi Flyway, where the Delta's flooded fields draw continental clouds of wintering ducks and geese, the longleaf savannas hold the endangered Red-cockaded Woodpecker, and the coast belongs to Brown Pelicans and Wood Storks. From USDA zone 7b in the northeastern Tishomingo hills to zone 9a on the Gulf shore, the seasons are long, green, and warm.