| Listed Species in Upson
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. |
|
Barbour's map turtle | No Federal Status | T | Restricted
to the Apalachicola River and larger tributaries including the Chipola, Chattahoochee, and Flint Rivers in eastern Alabama, western Georgia, and western Florida. | |
| 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. |
| Invertebrate | ||||
| Gulf moccasinshell mussel Medionidus pencillatus | E | E | Medium streams to large rivers with slight to moderate current over sand and gravel substrates; may be associated with muddy sand substrates around tree roots | Habitat modification, sedimentation, and water quality degradation |
| Oval
pigtoe mussel Pleurobema pyriforme | E | E | River tributaries and main channels in slow to moderate currents over silty sand, muddy sand, sand, and gravel substrates | Habitat modification, sedimentation, and water quality degradation |
| Purple
bankclimber mussel Elliptoideus sloatianus | T | T | Main channels of ACF basin rivers in moderate currents over sand, sand mixed with mud, or gravel substrates | Habitat modification, sedimentation, and water quality degradation |
| Shiny-rayed
pocketbook mussel Lampsilis subangulata | E | E | Medium creeks to the mainstems of rivers with slow to moderate currents over sandy substrates and associated with rock or clay | Habitat modification, sedimentation, and water quality degradation |
| Fish | ||||
| Bluestripe shiner Cyprinella callitaenia | No Federal Status | T | Brownwater streams | |
| Highscale
shiner Notropis hypsilepis | No Federal Status | T | Blackwater and brownwater streams | |
| Plant | ||||
| Fringed campion Silene polypetala | E | E | Mature hardwood or hardwood-pine forests on river bluffs, small stream terraces, moist slopes and well-shaded ridge crests; one population in Upson County last located in 1995 | Residential development, logging, and spread of Japanese honeysuckle |
| Piedmont barren
strawberry Waldsteinia lobata | No Federal Status | T | Rocky acedic woods along streams with mountain laurel; rarely in drier upland oak-hickory-pine woods | |
| Relict
trillium Trillium reliquum | E | E | Hardwood forests; in the Piedmont, found in either in rich ravines or adjacent alluvial terraces with other spring-flowering herbs | Logging, road construction, agricultural conversion, mining, residential/industrial development, and encroachment by Japanese honeysuckle and kudzu |
| Shoals
spider-lily Hymenocallis coronaria | No Federal Status | E | Major streams and rivers in rocky shoals and in cracks of exposed bedrock; plants can be completely submerged during flooding | |