Small. Slender. Color variable, but generally grayish or yellowish. Belly light gray or yellow. Found mostly south of the Arkansas River. 
Arkansas Herpetological Atlas 2019
This species complex is represented by 1,013 records from 37 sources: 927 museum (
), 0 literature (
), 37 research (
), and 42 observation (
), with 7 additional Trauth et al. (2004) locality points remaining unsourced (
). It has been museum vouchered for 15 of 75 counties (), with 2 additional counties having other forms of reported occurrence (). Years of collection range from 1900 to present.
This species complex occurs throughout the Ouachita Mountains, with some expansion into more mountainous regions of the Arkansas Valley south of the Arkansas River. One locality north of the Arkanasas River in northern Faulkner County, but still an extension of the Ouachita Mountains, has been confirmed by genetic analysis (R. M. Bonett, pers. comm.). It has been found sympatrically with E. paludicola in the vicinity of Caddo Valley, Clark County (K. J. Irwin, pers. comm.), so specimens from this area warrant close examination.
