What did wilderness in the Houston area look like before the colonists arrived?

As a horticulture major, I keep learning more and more about how so many of the plant species encountered in daily life aren’t native at all, even if they adapt well enough to the local climate to thrive like one. I also know that many of the animals you might see came from somewhere else. (Ex: Brown anoles, feral hogs, etc.) Even terrain isn’t quite the same, with how soil has been built up and moved around to prevent flooding, support infrastructure or other things. It’s fascinating, because even supposedly preserved natural areas will have inevitably been changed in some way from pre-colonization times.

This all makes me wonder, what would the land that now makes up the Houston area even have looked like as wilderness, before the colonists arrived? Was there more old growth as far as trees are concerned, less out-of-control vines and thicket or even more? Was there more or less swamp coverage, were there slightly more hills possibly? Was the bayou water possibly less murky? What kind of different predators did the native animals still around today have to worry about? It’d be super cool if a team of experts got together or something and made some artist’s renderings of a “true” Houston landscape. Or even one of the general region that Houston’s a part of.

(I live in the hinterlands right near Spring, TX and that’s what I know more of, in case it’s any different in other places)