Endangered, Threatened, Proposed and Candidate Species

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MAMMALS | BIRDS | REPTILES | AMPHIBIANS | FISHES |CLAMS | SNAILS | INSECTS | CRUSTACEANS | PLANTS

 

For Section 7 Consultation purposes, please use the endangered species county distribution lists.

 

List Revised March 2012

 

MAMMALS

Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis)

Status: Threatened, listed March 24, 2000

Critical Habitat designated on November 9, 2006 Habitat: Mix of evergreens and hardwoods, such as maple and birch; interspersion of mature and young forest
Lead Region: 6
Region 3 Lead Office: Twin Cities , Minnesota Field Office
Range: California, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming

 

Gray bat (Myotis grisescens)

Status: Endangered, listed April 28, 1976
Habitat: caves
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Columbia ES, Missouri Field Office
Range: Alabama , Arkansas , Florida , Georgia , Illinois , Indiana , Kansas , Kentucky , Missouri , Oklahoma , Tennessee , Virginia , West Virginia

 

Gray wolf (Canis lupus)

first listed March 11, 1967

 

Status: Western Great Lakes Distinct Population Segment - Delisted. The gray wolf is delisted in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan and portions of North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. Specifically the part of North Dakota north and east of the Missouri River upstream as far as Lake Sakakawea and east of U.S. Highway 83 to the Canadian border; the part of South Dakota north and east of the Missouri River; the parts of Iowa, Illinois and Indiana that are north of Interstate 80; and the part of Ohio north of I-80 and west of the Maumee River at Toledo. The delisting took effect on January 27, 2012.

 

Status:  Endangered
The gray wolf remains listed as endangered in portions of Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio south of the delisted area (as described above) and all of Missouri.  However, these states do not support wild populations of gray wolf. Map of Gray Wolf ESA Status in lower 48 states.

 

Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis)

Status: Endangered, first listed March 11, 1967
Habitat: Summer habitat includes small to medium river and stream corridors with well developed riparian woods; woodlots within 1 to 3 miles of small to medium rivers and streams; and upland forests. Caves and mines as hibernacula.
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Bloomington, Indiana Field Office
Range: Alabama , Arkansas , Connecticut , Georgia , Illinois , Indiana , Iowa , Kentucky , Maryland , Michigan , Mississippi , Missouri , New Jersey , New York , North Carolina , Ohio , Oklahoma , Pennsylvania , Tennessee , Vermont , Virginia , West Virginia

 

Indiana Bat Critical Habitat

Designated September 24, 1976

Critical habitat has been designated for hibernacula: Blackball Mine in LaSalle County, Illinois; Big Wyandotte Cave in Crawford County and Ray's Cave in Greene County, Indiana; Onyx Cave in Crawford County, Cooper Hollow Sink Cave and Bear (Mud Sink) Cave in Franklin County, Pilot Knob Mine in Iron County, Great Scott Cave in Washington County, and Bat Cave in Shannon County, Missouri

 

Ozark big-eared bat (Plecotus townsendii ingens)

Status: Endangered, listed November 30, 1979
Habitat: Caves in limestone karst regions dominated by mature hardwood forest
Lead Region: 2
Region 3 Lead Office: ColumbiaES, Missouri Field Office
Range: Arkansas and Missouri

 

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BIRDS

Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)

Status: Delisted

As of August 9, 2007, the bald eagle is no longer protected under the federal Endangered Species Act and Section 7 consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is no longer necessary. However, the bald eagle remains protected under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act. Click here for information about the Eagle Act and whether your action may need a permit.

 

Kirtland's warbler (Dendroica kirtlandii)

Status: Endangered, first listed March 11, 1967
Habitat: Breeds in jack pine
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: East Lansing, Michigan Field Office
Range: Michigan, Wisconsin

 

Least tern - Interior population (Sterna antillarum)

Status: Endangered, listed May 28, 1985
Habitat: Bare alluvial islands and dredged spoil islands
Lead Region: 4
Region 3 Lead Office: ColumbiaES, Missouri Field Office
Range: Arkansas , Colorado , Illinois , Indiana , Iowa , Kansas , Kentucky , Louisiana , Mississippi , Missouri , Montana , Nebraska , New Mexico , North Dakota , Oklahoma , South Dakota , Tennessee , Texas

 

Piping plover (Charadrius melodus) - Great Lakes population

Status: Endangered, listed December 11, 1985
Habitat: Beaches along shorelines of the Great Lakes
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: East Lansing, Michigan Field Office
Summer Range:Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin

Piping Plover Critical Habitat Great Lakes Population Breeding Habitat: Designated May 7, 2001 in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin

 

Piping plover (Charadrius melodus) - Great Plains population

Status: Threatened, listed December 11, 1985
Habitat: Bare alluvial and dredged spoil islands
Lead Region: 6
Region 3 Lead Office: Twin Cities, Minnesota Field Office
Range in Region: Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota

 

Sprague's pipit (Anthus spragueii)

Status: Candidate, first listed Nov. 2010

Habitat: Large (>350 acre) patches of grassland - prefer native grassland, but also use non-native planted grasslands.

Current Range: Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Montana Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas

Range in Region 3: Minnesota

Lead Region: Region 6

Region 3 Lead Office: Twin Cities Field Office

 

Whooping crane (Grus americana)

Status:

First listed as Endangered on March 11, 1967

Non-essential, experimental population, listed June 26, 2001
Habitat: wetlands and lake shorelines
Lead Region: Region 2
Region 3 Lead Office: Green Bay, Wisconsin Field Office
Range in Region 3: Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin are within the Nonessential, Experimental Population area.

 

REPTILES

Copperbelly water snake (Nerodia erythrogaster neglecta)

[northern population - north of 40 north latitude; approximately Indianapolis, Indiana]
Status: Threatened, listed January 29, 1997
Habitat: Wooded and permanently wet areas such as oxbows, sloughs, brushy ditches and floodplain woods
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: East Lansing, Michigan Field Office
Range: Indiana, Michigan, Ohio

 

Eastern massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus)

Status: Candidate
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Chicago Illinois Field Office
Range: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Canada (Ontario)

 

Lake Erie water snake (Nerodia sipedon insularum)

Status: Delisted August 2011

 

AMPHIBIANS

Ozark hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis bishopi)

Status: Endangered
Habitat: Streams of the Ozark plateau in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas.
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Columbia ES, Missouri Field Office
Range: Arkansas, Missouri

FISHES

Arkansas darter (Etheostoma cragini)

Status: Candidate
Lead Region: 6
Region 3 Lead Office: Columbia ES, Missouri Field Office
Range in Region 3: Missouri

 

Grotto sculpin (Cottus sp.)

Status: Candidate

Habitat: Streams in cave systems, occupying pools and riffles with moderate stream flow and low to moderate stream depth. Restricted to two karst (limestone regions characterized by sink holes, abrupt ridges, caves and underground streams) areas, the Central Perryville Karst and Mystery-Rimstone Karst in Perry County, southeast Missouri.
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Columbia ES, Missouri Field Office
Range: Missouri

 

Neosho madtom (Noturus placidus)

Status: Threatened, listed May 22, 1990
Habitat: Medium to large rivers in shallow riffles over gravel bottoms
Lead Region: 6
Region 3 Lead Office: Columbia ES, Missouri Field Office
Range in Region: Missouri

 

Niangua darter (Etheostoma nianguae)

Status: Threatened, listed June 12, 1985
Habitat: Clear, medium-sized streams that run off hilly areas underlain by chert and dolomite.
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Columbia ES, Missouri Field Office
Range: Missouri

Niangua Darter Critical Habitat designated June 12, 1985
Missouri:Critical habitat has been designated in Big Tavern Creek, Miller County; Brush Creek, Cedar and St. Clair Counties; Niangua River, Dallas County; and Pomme de Terre River, Greene County.

 

Ozark cavefish (Amblyopsis rosae)

Status: Threatened, listed November 1, 1984
Habitat: Caves in the Boone and Burlington limestone formations of the Ozark Mountains
Lead Region: 4
Region 3 Lead Office: Columbia ES, Missouri Field Office
Range: Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma

 

Pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus)

Status: Endangered, listed September 6, 1990
Habitat: Mississippi River downstream of its confluence with the Missouri River; Ohio River below Dam #53; Missouri River
Lead Region: 6
Region 3 Lead Office: Columbia ES, Missouri Field Office
Range: Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, South Dakota, Tennessee

 

Scioto madtom (Noturus trautmani)

Status: Endangered, listed October 28, 1975
Habitat: Stream riffles of moderate flow over sandy gravel bottom; may be extinct
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Ohio Field Office
Range: Ohio

 

Topeka shiner (Notropis topeka)

Status: Endangered, listed December 15, 1998
Habitat: Small prairie streams
Lead Region: 6
Region 3 Lead Office: ColumbiaES, Missouri Field Office
Range: Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota

Topeka shiner Critical Habitat Designated July 27, 2004

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CLAMS (Freshwater Mussels, Unionids)

Clubshell (Pleurobema clava)

Status: Endangered, listed January 22, 1993
Habitat: Found in coarse sand and gravel areas of runs and riffles within streams and small rivers
Lead Region: 5
Region 3 Lead Office: Ohio Field Office
Range: Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia

 

Cracking pearlymussel (Hemistena lata)

Status: Endangered, listed September 28, 1989
Habitat: Medium to large rivers in mud, sand, or gravel
Lead Region: 4
Region 3 Lead Office: Bloomington, Indiana Field Office
Range in Region: Alabama, Indiana (extirpated), Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia

 

Curtis' pearlymussel (Epioblasma florentina curtisi)

Status: Endangered, listed June 14, 1976
Habitat: Restricted to Little Black River in Ripley County, Missouri
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: ColumbiaES, Missouri Field Office
Range: Arkansas, Missouri

 

Fanshell (Cyprogenia stegaria (=c. irrorata))

Status: Endangered, listed June 21, 1990
Habitat: Found in areas of packed sand and gravel at locations in a good current
Lead Region: 4
Region 3 Lead Office: Bloomington, Indiana Field Office
Range: Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia

 

Fat pocketbook (Potamilus capax)

Status: Endangered, listed June 14, 1976
Habitat: Large rivers in slow-flowing water
Lead Region: 4
Region 3 Lead Office: ColumbiaES, Missouri Field Office
Range: Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi

 

Higgins eye pearlymussel (Lampsilis higginsii)

Status: Endangered, listed June 14, 1976
Habitat: Mississippi River and some of its larger northern tributaries (i.e., St. Croix and Wisconsin Rivers) in gravel or sand
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Twin Cities Field Office
Range: Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin

 

Neosho mucket (Lampsilis rafinesqueana)

Status: Candidate
Habitat: Rivers in stable runs, shoals, and riffles with gravely bottoms and moderate currents
Lead Region: Region 4
Region 3 Lead Office: ColumbiaES Missouri Field Office
Range: Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma

 

Northern riffleshell (Epioblasma torulosa rangiana)

Status: Endangered, listed June 22, 1993
Habitat: Large streams and small rivers in firm sand of riffle areas; also occurs in Lake Erie
Lead Region: 5
Region 3 Lead Office: Ohio Field Office
Range: Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia

 

Orange foot pimpleback pearlymussel (Plethobasus cooperianus (=p. striatus))

Status: Endangered, listed June 14, 1976
Habitat: Gravel bars with strong currents in large rivers
Lead Region: 4
Region 3 Lead Office: Rock Island, Illinois Field Office
Range: Alabama, Illinois, Indiana (extirpated), Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Tennessee

 

Pink mucket pearlymussel (Lampsilis orbiculata (=l. abrupta))

Status: Endangered, listed June 14, 1976
Habitat: The lower Mississippi and Ohio Rivers and their larger tributaries
Lead Region: 4
Region 3 Lead Office: ColumbiaES, Missouri Field Office
Range: Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia

 

Purple cat's paw pearlymussel (Epioblasma (=dysnomia) obliquata obliquata)

Status: Endangered, listed July 10, 1990
Habitat: Gravel riffles of medium to large rivers
Lead Region: 3

Region 3 Lead Office: Ohio Field Office

Range: Ohio

 

Rabbitsfoot (Quadrula cylindrica cylindrica)

Status: Candidate, 2009

Habitat: Rivers

Lead Region: 4

Region 3 Lead Office:  Columbia, Missouri Field Office

Range: AL, AR, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MO, MS, OH, OK, PA, TN

 

Rayed Bean (Villosa fabalis)

Status: Endangered, listed February 14, 2012
Habitat: Smaller, headwater creeks, but they are sometimes found in large rivers, and Lake Erie
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Ohio Field Office
Range: Indiana, Michgian, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania

 

Ring pink mussel (=golf stick pearly) (Obovaria retusa)

Status: Endangered, listed September 29, 1989
Habitat: Large rivers in sand or gravel
Lead Region: 4
Region 3 Lead Office: Rock Island, Illinois Field Office
Range in Region: Indiana (extirpated)

 

Rough pigtoe (Pleurobema plenum)

Status: Endangered, listed June 14, 1976
Habitat: Medium to large rivers in sand and gravel
Lead Region: 4
Region 3 Lead Office: Bloomington, Indiana Field Office
Range in Region: Indiana

 

Scaleshell (Leptodea leptodon)

Status:  Endangered, listed October 9, 2001
Habitat: Medium-sized and large rivers with stable channels and good water quality
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office:  Columbia, Missouri Field Office
Range in Region:  Missouri

 

Sheepnose (Plethobasus cyphyus)

Status: Endangered, listed March 13, 2012
Habitat: Shallow areas in larger rivers and streams
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Rock Island Illinois Field Office
Range in Region 3: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin

 

Snuffbox (Epioblasma triquetra)

Status: Endangered, listed February 14, 2012

Habitat: Small to medium-sized creeks in areas with a swift current and some larger rivers, and Lake Erie

Lead Region: 3

Region 3 Lead Office: Ohio Field Office

Range: Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and Wisconsin

 

Spectaclecase (Cumberlandia monodonta)

Status: Endangered, listed March 13, 2012
Habitat: Large rivers in areas sheltered from the main force of the current
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Twin Cities Field Office
Range in Region 3: Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin

 

Tubercled blossom pearlymussel (Epioblasma torulosa torulosa)

Status: Endangered, listed June 14, 1976
Habitat: Gravel riffles in medium to large rivers
Lead Region: 4
Region 3 Lead Office: Rock Island, Illinois Field Office
Range in Region: Indiana (extirpated)

 

White cat's paw pearlymussel (Epioblasma obliquata perobliqua)

Status: Endangered, listed June 14, 1976
Habitat: Firm sand or gravel riffles in small streams and medium to large rivers
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Ohio Field Office
Range in Region: Ohio, Indiana

 

White wartyback pearlymussel (Plethobasus cicatricosus)

Status: Endangered, listed June 14, 1976
Habitat: Large rivers in gravel
Lead Region: 4
Region 3 Lead Office: Bloomington Indiana Field Office
Range in Region: Indiana (extirpated)

 

Winged mapleleaf (Quadrula fragosa)

Status: Endangered, listed June 20, 1991
Habitat: Medium to large rivers in mud, sand, or gravel
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Twin Cities Field Office
Range in Region: Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin

 

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SNAILS

Iowa Pleistocene snail (Discus macclintocki)

Status: Endangered, listed August 2, 1978
Habitat: North-facing algific talus slopes
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office:Rock Island, Illinois Field Office
Range in Region: Illinois, Iowa

 

Tumbling Creek cavesnail (Antrobia culveri)

Status:

Endangered, listed August 14, 2002

Critical Habitat Designated June 28, 2011 (PDF)
Habitat: Tumbling Creek in Tumbling Creek cave in Taney County
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: ColumbiaES, Missouri Field Office
Range in Region: Missouri

INSECTS

American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus)

Status: Endangered, listed July 13, 1989
Habitat: Many types of habitat, with a slight preference for grasslands and open understory oak hickory forests. However, the beetles need carrion the size of a dove or a chipmunk to reproduce. Carrion availability may be the greatest factor determining where the species can survive.
Lead Region: 2
Region 3 Lead Office: Ohio Field Office
Range in Region: Michigan, Ohio

 

Dakota skipper (Hesperia dacotae)

Status: Candidate
Habitat: High quality tallgrass and mixed grass prairie
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Twin Cities Field Office
Range in Region: Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota

 

Hine's emerald dragonfly (Somatochlora hineana)

Status:

Endangered, listed January 26, 1995

Critical Habitat Designated Sept. 5, 2007
Habitat: Spring fed wetlands, wet meadows and marshes; calcareous streams & associated wetlands overlying dolomite bedrock
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Chicago, Illinois Field Office
Range in Region: Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Wisconsin

 

Hungerford's crawling water beetle (Brychius hungerfordi)

Status: Endangered, listed March 7, 1994
Habitat: Cool riffles of clean, slightly alkaline streams; known to occur in only 3 isolated locations
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: East Lansing, Michigan Field Office
Range in Region: Michigan

 

Karner blue butterfly (Lycaeides melissa samuelis)

Status: Endangered, listed December 14, 1992
Habitat: Pine barrens and oak savannas on sandy soils and containing wild lupines (Lupinus perennis), the only known food plant of larvae.
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Green Bay, Wisconsin Field Office
Range in Region: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin

 

Mitchell's satyr butterfly (Neonympha mitchellii mitchellii)

Status: Endangered, listed June 25, 1991
Habitat: Fens, wetlands characterized by calcareous soils which are fed by carbonate-rich water from seeps and springs
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: East Lansing, Michigan Field Office
Range in Region: Indiana, Michigan, Ohio

 

Poweshiek skipperling (Oarisma poweshiek)

Status: Candidate (added to candidate list in 2011)

Habitat: Remnants of tallgrass prairie and, in Michigan, fens

Lead Region: Region 3

Region 3 Lead Office: Twin Cities, Minnesota Field Office

Range: Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin

 

CRUSTACEANS

cave crayfish, no common name (Cambarus aculabrum)

Status: Endangered, listed April 27, 1993
Habitat: Caves
Lead Region: 4
Region 3 Lead Office: ColumbiaES, Missouri Field Office
Range in Region 3: Missouri

 

Illinois cave amphipod (Gammarus acherondytes)

Status: Endangered, listed September 3, 1998
Habitat: Cave streams
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office:Rock Island, Illinois Field Office
Range in Region: Illinois

 

PLANTS

American hart's-tongue fern (Asplenium scolopendrium var. americanum)

Status: Threatened, listed July 14, 1989
Habitat: Cool limestone sinkholes in mature hardwood forest
Lead Region: 4
Region 3 Lead Office: East Lansing, Michigan Field Office
Range in Region: Michigan

 

Decurrent false aster (Boltonia decurrens)

Status: Threatened, listed November 14, 1988
Habitat: Disturbed alluvial soils (Mississippi and Illinois River alluvial floodplain)
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Rock Island, Illinois Field Office
Range in Region: Illinois, Missouri

 

Dwarf lake iris (Iris lacustris)

Status: Threatened, listed September 28, 1988
Habitat: Partially shaded sandy-gravelly soils on lakeshores
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: East Lansing, Michigan Field Office
Range in Region: Michigan, Wisconsin

 

Eastern prairie fringed orchid (Platanthera leucophaea)

Status: Threatened, listed September 28, 1989
Habitat: Mesic to wet prairies and meadows
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Chicago, Illinois Field Office
Range in Region: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Wisconsin

 

Fassett's locoweed (Oxytropis campestris var. chartacea)

Status: Threatened, listed September 28, 1988
Habitat: Open sandy lakeshores
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Green Bay, Wisconsin Field Office
Range in Region: Wisconsin

 

Geocarpon (no common name) (Geocarpon minimum)

Status: Threatened, listed June 16, 1987
Habitat: Moist soils in exposed sandstone glades
Lead Region: 4
Region 3 Lead Office: ColumbiaES, Missouri Field Office
Range in Region: Missouri

 

Houghton's goldenrod (Solidago houghtonii)

Status: Threatened, listed July 18, 1988
Habitat: Sandy flats along Great Lakes shores
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: East Lansing, Michigan Field Office
Range in Region: Michigan

 

Lakeside daisy (Hymenoxys herbacea (=H. acaulis var. glabra))

Status: Threatened, listed June 23, 1988
Habitat: Dry rocky prairies; limestone rock surfaces including outcrops and quarries
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Ohio Field Office
Range in Region: Illinois, Michigan, Ohio

 

Leafy prairie-clover (Dalea foliosa)

Status: Endangered, listed May 1, 1991
Habitat: Prairie remnants on thin soil over limestone (Des Plaine River floodplain)
Lead Region: 4
Region 3 Lead Office: Chicago Illinois Field Office
Range in Region: Illinois

 

Leedy's roseroot (Rhodiola integrifolia ssp. leedyi)

Status: Threatened, listed April 22, 1992
Habitat: Cool, wet groundwater-fed limestone cliffs
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Twin Cities, Minnesota Field Office
Range in Region: driftless area of southeastern Minnesota

 

Mead's milkweed (Asclepias meadii)

Status: Threatened, listed September 1, 1988
Habitat: Prairies and rhyolite glades in Missouri
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Chicago, Illinois Field Office
Range in Region: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin

 

Michigan monkey-flower (Mimulus michiganensis)

Status: Endangered, listed June 21, 1990
Habitat: Soils saturated with cold flowing spring water; found along seepages, streams and lakeshores
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: East Lansing, Michigan Field Office
Range in Region: Michigan

 

Minnesota dwarf trout lily (Erythronium propullans)

Status: Endangered, listed March 26, 1986
Habitat: North facing slopes & floodplains in deciduous forests
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Twin Cities, Minnesota Field Office
Range in Region: Minnesota

 

Missouri bladder-pod (Physaria filiformis)

Status: Threatened, first listed as Endangered on January 8, 1987
Habitat: Open glades in shallow limestone soils
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: ColumbiaES, Missouri Field Office
Range in Region: Missouri

 

Northern wild monkshood (Aconitum noveboracense)

Status: Threatened, listed May 27, 1978
Habitat: Cool, moist, shaded cliff faces or talus slopes in wooded ravines, near water seeps
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Green Bay, Wisconsin Field Office
Range: Iowa, New York, Ohio, Wisconsin

 

Pitcher's thistle (Cirsium pitcheri)

Status: Threatened, listed July 18, 1988

Habitat: Stablized dunes and blowout areas
Habitat: Stabilized dunes and blowout areas
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: East Lansing, Michigan Field Office
Range in Region: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin

 

Pondberry (Lindera melissifolia)

Status: Endangered, listed July 31, 1986
Habitat: Bottomland hardwood forest, poorly drained depressions, and margins of limestone sinks
Lead Region: 4
Region 3 Lead Office: ColumbiaES, Missouri Field Office
Range in Region: Missouri

 

Prairie bush-clover (Lespedeza leptostachya)

Status: Threatened, listed June 9, 1987
Habitat: Dry to mesic prairies with gravelly soils
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Twin Cities, Minnesota Field Office
Range in Region: Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin

 

Price's potato-bean (Apios priceana)

Status: Threatened, listed June 5, 1990
Habitat: Wet floodplain forests, shrubby swamps
Lead Region: 4
Region 3 Lead Office: Rock Island, Illinois Field Office
Range in Region: Illinois

 

Running buffalo clover (Trifolium stoloniferum)

Status: Endangered, listed June 5, 1987
Habitat: Disturbed bottomland meadows; disturbed sites that have shade during part of each day
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Ohio Field Office
Range in Region: Indiana, Missouri, Ohio

 

Short's bladderpod (Physaria globosa)

Status: Candidate
Habitat: Steep, rocky wooded slopes and talus areas, occurs along cliff tops and bases and cliff ledges. Found adjacent to rivers or streams and on south to west facing slopes. The Indiana population is found within the Shawnee Hills section of the Interior Low Plateau Physiographic Province.
Lead Region: 4
Region 3 Lead Office: Bloomington Indiana Field Office
Range in Region: Indiana

 

Short's goldenrod (Solidago shortii)

Status: Endangered, listed September 5, 1985
Habitat: Cedar glades and openings in oak and hickory forests
Lead Region: 4
Region 3 Lead Office: Bloomington, Indiana Field Office
Range in Region: Indiana

 

Small whorled pogonia (Isotria medeoloides)

Status: Threatened, listed September 9, 1982
Habitat: Dry woodland; upland sites in mixed forest (second or third growth stage)
Lead Region: 5
Region 3 Lead Office: Ohio Field Office
Range in Region: Illinois, Michigan, Ohio

 

Virginia sneezeweed (Helenium virginicum)

Status: Threatened, listed June 3, 1998
Habitat: Sinkhole ponds
Lead Region: 5
Region 3 Lead Office: ColumbiaES, Missouri Field Office
Range in Region: Missouri

 

Virginia spiraea (Spiraea virginiana)

Status: Threatened, listed June 15, 1990
Habitat: Stream banks and floodplains
Lead Region: 5
Region 3 Lead Office: Ohio Field Office
Range in Region: Ohio

 

Western prairie fringed orchid (Platanthera praeclara)

Status: Threatened, listed September 28, 1989
Habitat: Wet prairies & sedge meadows
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Twin Cities, Minnesota Field Office
Range in Region: Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri

 

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