Color bright green with a prominent white stripe from upper lip to thigh. Toe pads sticky. Skin smooth. Call a duck-like quack. 
Arkansas Herpetological Atlas 2019
This species is represented by 1,417 records from 25 sources: 1,231 museum (
), 0 literature (
), 0 research (
), and 146 observation (
), with 40 additional Trauth et al. (2004) locality points remaining unsourced (
). It has been museum vouchered for 61 of 75 counties (), with 6 additional counties having other forms of reported occurrence (). Years of collection range from 1910 to present.
This species is common throughout the South Central Plains, Mississippi Alluvial Plain, and Arkansas Valley. It has spotty distribution in the Ouachita Mountains, where records occur in stream valleys. Transplant populations have been confirmed in recent years at Lake Sequoyah, east of Fayetteville, Washington County, Lake Leatherwood near Eureka Springs, Carroll County (L. Beattie, pers. comm.), and vicinity of the Northwest Medical Center – Bentonville, Benton County (A. Schaffer, pers. comm.). An additional transplant population is known from the Missouri side of Table Rock Lake (Daniel and Edmond, 2020). Questionable records from west of Mountain View, Stone County (MPM 14125 from 1974), and northern Baxter County (ASUMZ 31340 from 2009) warrant verification.
