Wisconsin

Species

Status

Counties

Habitat

Mammals

Canada lynx
(Lynx canadensis)

Threatened

Ashland, Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, Florence, Forest, Iron, Marinette, Oneida, Price, Sawyer, Vilas, Washburn

While no resident populations are known from Wisconsin, the species occasionally occurs in northern forested areas, and counties listed are those with the highest likelihood of occurrence.

Gray wolf

(Canis lupus)

Endangered

Adams, Ashland, Barron, Bayfield, Burnett, Clark, Douglas, Eau Claire, Florence, Forest, Iron, Jackson, Juneau, Langlade, Lincoln, Marathon, Marinette, Marquette, Menominee, Monroe, Oconto, Oneida, Polk, Portage, Price, Rusk, Sawyer, Shawano, Taylor, Vilas, Washburn, Wood

Northern forested areas

Birds

Kirtland's warbler
(Dendroica kirtlandii)

Endangered

Douglas, Jackson, Marinette, Vilas, Washburn

Potential breeding in jack pine

Piping plover
(Charadrius melodus)

Endangered

Ashland, Douglas

Sandy beaches; bare alluvial and dredge spoil islands

Piping plover
(Charadrius melodus)

Critical Habitat Designated

Ashland, Douglas, Manitowoc, Marinette

Whooping crane
(Grus americanus)

**Non-essential experimental population

Adams, Burnett, Calumet, Clark, Columbia, Crawford, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Grant, Green, Green Lake, Iowa, Jackson, Jefferson, Juneau, Kenosha, LaCrosse, Lafayette, Marathon, Marquette, Monroe, Oconto, Pepin, Polk, Richland, Rock, Sauk, Shawano, Trempealeau, Walworth, Washington, Waushara, Winnebago, Wood

Open wetlands and lakeshores

Reptile

Eastern massasauga
(Sistrurus catenatus catenatus)

Mussels

Higgins eye pearlymussel
(Lampsilis higginsii)

Endangered

Crawford, Dane, Grant, Iowa, Pierce, Richland, Sauk

Lower Wisconsin River

Higgins eye pearlymussel
(Lampsilis higginsii)

Buffalo, Crawford, Grant, LaCrosse, Pierce, Trempealeau, Vernon

Mississippi River

Higgins eye pearlymussel
(Lampsilis higginsii)

Jackson, Pierce, Polk, St. Croix

St. Croix River

Sheepnose
(Plethobasus cyphyus)

Candidate

Buffalo, Columbia, Crawford, Dunn, Eau Claire, Iowa, Pepin, Pierce, Richland, Rusk, Sauk,

Chippewa, Mississippi, St. Croix, and Wisconsin Rivers

Spectaclecase
(Cumberlandia monodonta)

Candidate

Burnett, Chippewa, Polk, St. Croix,

Chippewa and St. Croix Rivers

Winged mapleleaf
(Quadrula fragosa)

Polk

St. Croix River

Insects

Hine's emerald dragonfly
(Somatochlora hineana)

Door, Kewaunee, Ozaukee

Streams and associated wetlands overlying dolomite bedrock

Karner blue butterfly
(Lycaeides melissa samuelis)

Adams, Barron, Burnett, Chippewa, Clark, Dunn, Eau Claire, Green Lake, Jackson, Juneau, Kenosha, Marquette, Menominee, Monroe, Oconto, Outagamie, Polk, Portage, St. Croix, Shawano, Waupaca, Waushara, Wood

Prairie, oak savanna, and jack pine areas with wild lupine

Plants

Dwarf lake iris
(Iris lacustris)

Threatened

Brown, Door

Partially shaded sandy-gravelly soils on lakeshores

Eastern prairie fringed orchid
(Platanthera leucophaea)

Dane, Jefferson, Kenosha, Ozaukee, Rock, Walworth, Waukesha, Sheboygan, Winnebago

Wet grasslands

Fassett's locoweed
(Oxytropis campestris var. chartaceae)

Threatened

Bayfield, Portage, Waushara

Open sandy lakeshores

Mead's milkweed
(Asclepias meadii)

Threatened

Columbia, Dane, Grant, Green, Iowa

Upland tallgrass prairie or glade/barren habitat

Note: all the Mead's milkweed sites in Wisconsin are reintroduction attempts and occur on protected conservation lands.

Northern monkshood
(Aconitum noveborancense)

Grant, Monroe, Richland, Sauk, Vernon

North facing slopes

Pitcher's thistle
(Cirsium pitcheri)

Door, Manitowoc, Sheboygan

Stabilized dunes and blowouts

Prairie bush-clover
(Lespedeza leptostachya)

Threatened

Dane, Grant, Green, Pierce, Rock, Sauk

Dry to mesic prairies with gravelly soil areas