American Green tree frogs, which range in color from bright to yellow green, are common frogs spotted in Texas. Their colors can change based on the temperature and what they do in their spare time. For example, tree frogs can become a duller green or gray when they’re resting, and yellower when they’re using their voices to call out.
You can find these frogs in wet prairies, cypress swamps, marshes, vegetation or plants in the water, and on the edges of lakes, ponds, and streams. They’re also called rain frogs because of how loud they get during rain storms. At a distance, a tree frog may sound like a cowbell, but if you get closer their call sounds more like “quank-quank.”
At the Houston Arboretum & Nature Center, sometimes you can spot juvenile and adult tree frogs on the leaves of pickerelweed along the water's edge at Donor Boardwalk.
