| Listed Species in Marion
County | ||||
| Species | Federal Status | State Status | Habitat | Threats |
| Bird | ||||
| Red-cockaded
woodpecker Picoides borealis | E | E | Nest in mature pine with low understory vegetation (<1.5m); forage in pine and pine hardwood stands > 30 years of age, preferably > 10" dbh | Reduction of older age pine stands and to encroachment of hardwood midstory in older age pine stands due to fire suppression |
| Reptile | ||||
| Alligator snapping turtle Macroclemys temminckii | No Federal Status | T | Rivers, lakes, and large ponds near stream swamps. | Destruction and modification of habitat and overharvesting. |
| Gopher
tortoise Gopherus polyphemus | No Federal Status | T | Well-drained, sandy soils in forest and grassy areas; associated with pine overstory, open understory with grass and forb groundcover, and sunny areas for nesting | Habitat loss and conversion to closed canopy forests. Other threats include mortality on highways and the collection of tortoises for pets. |
| Plant | ||||
| Clearwater butterwort Pinguicula primuliflora | No Federal Status | T | Shallow running water of sandy, clear streams and spring-fed rivulets (spring runs); also along moist streambanks in mats of peat moss | |
| Indian olive Nestronia umbellula | No Federal Status | T | Dry open upland forests of mixed hardwood and pine | |
| Lax Water-milfoil Myriophyllum laxum | No Federal Status | T | Sinkholes and other shallow freshwater pools; also sandy clear streams draining spring-fed swamps | |
| Pickering's
morning-glory Stylisma pickeringii | No Federal Status | T | Coarse white sands on sandhills near the Fall Line and on a few ancient dunes along the Flint and Ohoopee Rivers | |
| Sandhill
golden-aster Pityopsis pinifolia | No Federal Status | T | Fall Line sandhills with open scrub oak-longleaf pine; sometimes in cleared and cut over areas, old fields, maintained rights-of ways, and pine plantations | |
| Sweet pitcher-plant Sarracenia rubra | No Federal Status | E | Acid soils of open bogs, sandhill seeps, Atlantic white-cedar swamps, wet savannahs, low areas in pine flatwoods, and along sloughs and ditches | |