Color variable, though usually a rusty-red. Skin dry with 1-2 warts per dark spot (some individuals without spots). Chest speckled with black. Parotoid gland kidney-shaped and separated from eye ridge or attached by spur. Call a long melodic trill. 
Arkansas Herpetological Atlas 2019
This species is represented by 1,937 records from 39 sources: 1,704 museum (
), 0 literature (
), 0 research (
), and 158 observation (
), with 75 additional Trauth et al. (2004) locality points remaining unsourced (
). It has been museum vouchered for 73 of 75 counties (), with 2 additional counties having other forms of reported occurrence (). Years of collection range from 1894 to present.
This species occurs statewide. Morphological variation and potential hybridization among Anaxyrus species often makes definitive identification difficult, and may raise questions of taxonomic clarity. This species is not recognized as having occurrence in northern Louisiana (Boundy and Carr, 2017), so records from extreme southern Arkansas may be questionable.
