Endangered,
Threatened, Proposed and Candidate Species in the Upper Midwest (Region 3)
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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 October 2016
MAMMALS
Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis)
Status: Threatened, listed
March 24, 2000
Critical Habitat designated
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
Canada Lynx Home
Gray bat (Myotis grisescens)
Status: Endangered, listed April 28, 1975
Habitat: Use caves year-round. During winter, gray bats hibernate in deep, vertical caves. In summer, they roost and form maternity colonies in caves which are scattered along rivers.
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 Bat Home
Gray wolf (Canis lupus)
first
listed March 11, 1967
Due to a Federal court decision, wolves in the western Great Lakes Distinct Population Segment (including Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin) were relisted under the Endangered Species Act, effective December 19, 2014. Western Great Lakes Distinct Population Segment
Status: Endangered - http://ecos.fws.gov/speciesProfile/profile/speciesProfile?spcode=A00D
Status: Threatened - Minnesota
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 Home
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
Northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis)
Status: Threatened: April 2, 2015
Habitat: Hibernates in caves and mines - swarming in surrounding wooded areas in autumn. During late spring and summer roosts and forages in upland forests.
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Twin Cities Field Office
Range: Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
Northern Long-eared Bat Home
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
Ozark Big-Eared Bat Home
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.
Bald Eagle Home
Kirtland's warbler (Setophaga
kirtlandii) [=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
Kirtland's Warbler Home
Least tern - Interior population (Sterna antillarum)
Status: Endangered, listed
May 28, 1985
Habitat:Sandbars on large rivers, dredged spoil islands, and man-made habitats that include constructed nesting islands and gravel areas near impoundments.
Lead Region: 4
Region 3 Lead Office: Columbia 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
Least Tern Home
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
Breeding 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. More about Piping Plover Critical Habitat (Great Lakes Population)
Piping Plover (Great Lakes Population) Home
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
Breeding Range: Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota,
Piping Plover (Great Plains Population) Home
Rufa Red knot (Calidris canutus rufa)
Status: Threatened
Range: The
knot
migrates
between
breeding
grounds
in
the
Canadian
Arctic
and
several
wintering
regions:
southeast
United
States,
northwest
Gulf
of
Mexico,
northern
Brazil
and
Tierra
del
Fuego
at
the
southern
tip
of
South
America.
During
migrations,
groups
of
a
few
individuals
to
thousands
of
knots
can
be
found
anywhere
along
the
coastal
and
inland
U.S.
migration
corridors
from
Argentina
to
Canada. It is an irregular migrant through most the Region 3 states but regularly uses the Lake Michigan shoreline, in Michigan, and the Lake Erie shoreline, in Ohio.
Lead Region: Region 5
Rufa Red Knot Home
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
Non-Essential Experimental Population: AL, AR, GA, IL, IN, IA, KY, LA, MI, MN, MS, MO, NC, OH, SC, TN, VA, WI, WV
Whooping Crane Home
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
Copperbelly Water Snake Home
Eastern
massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus)
Status: Threatened
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Chicago Illinois Field Office
Range: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Canada (Ontario)
Eastern Massasauga Home
Lake Erie water snake (Nerodia
sipedon insularum)
Status: Delisted August 2011
Lake Erie Water Snake Home
AMPHIBIANS
Ozark
hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis bishopi)
Status: Endangered, listed October 6, 2011
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
Ozark Hellbender Home
FISHES
Arkansas
darter (Etheostoma cragini)
Status: Candidate
Lead Region: 6
Region 3 Lead Office: Columbia ES, Missouri
Field Office
Range: Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma
Arkansas Darter Home
Grotto
sculpin (Cottus specus)
Status: Endangered, listed Sept. 25, 2013
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
Grotto Sculpin Home
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: Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma
Neosho Madtom Home
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.
Niangua Darter Home
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
Ozark Cavefish Home
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
Pallid Sturgeon Home
Scioto madtom (Noturus
trautmani)
Status: Endangered, listed
September 25, 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
Scioto Madtom Home
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
Topeka Shiner Home
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
Clubshell Home
Cracking
pearlymussel (Hemistena lata)
Status: Endangered; Listed September 28, 1989 (PDF)
Species Profile
Extirpated from the Upper Midwest
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
Curtis' pearlymussel Home
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
Fanshell Home
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
Fat pocketbook Home
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
Higgins eye pearlymussel
Neosho
mucket (Lampsilis rafinesqueana)
Status:
Endangered; Listed September 17, 2013 
Critical Habitat; April 30, 2015
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
Neosho
mucket Home
Northern riffleshell (Epioblasma
torulosa rangiana)
Status: Endangered, listed
January 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
Northern riffleshell Home
Orangefoot pimpleback (Plethobasus cooperianus)
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
Orange foot pimpleback pearlymussel Home
Pink mucket (Lampsilis
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
Pink Mucket Home
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
Purple cat's paw pearlymussel Home
Rabbitsfoot (Quadrula cylindrica cylindrica)
Status: Threatened; Listed September 17, 2013
Critical Habitat; April 30, 2015
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
Rabbitsfoot Home
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
Rayed
Bean Home
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: Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia
Rough pigtoe Home
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: Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota
Scaleshell Home
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: Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin
Sheepnose Home
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
Snuffbox Home
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: Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin
Spectaclecase Home
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: Indiana, Ohio
White cat's paw pearlymussel Home
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: Arkansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, Wisconsin
Winged mapleleaf Home
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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: Illinois, Iowa
Iowa Pleistocene Snail Home
Tumbling
Creek cavesnail (Antrobia culveri)
Status:
Endangered, listed
August 14, 2002
Critical Habitat Designated June 28, 2011
Habitat: Tumbling Creek in Tumbling Creek cave in Taney County
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: ColumbiaES,
Missouri Field Office
Range: Missouri
Tumbling
Creek cavesnail Home
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: Arkansas, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Texas
American burying beetle Home
Dakota
skipper (Hesperia dacotae)
Status: Threatened; Listed October 24, 2014
Critical Habitat; October 1, 2015
Habitat: High quality tallgrass and mixed grass prairie
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Twin Cities Field
Office
Range: Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota
Dakota
skipper Home
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: Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Wisconsin
Hine's emerald dragonfly Home
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: Michigan
Hungerford's crawling water beetle Home
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: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota (extirpated), New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Wisconsin
Karner blue butterfly Home
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: Alabama, Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Ohio, Virginia
Mitchell's satyr butterfly Home
Poweshiek skipperling (Oarisma poweshiek)
Status: Endangered; Listed October 24, 2014
Critical Habitat; October 1, 2015
Habitat: Remnants of tallgrass prairie and, in Michigan, fens
Lead Region: Region 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Twin Cities Field Office
Range: Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin
Poweshiek skipperling Home
Rattlesnake-master Borer Moth (Papaipema eryngii)
Status: Added to Candidate List 2013
Listing Priority Number: 8
Habitat: Prairie with the plant, rattlesnake-master
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Rock Island Field Office
Current Range: AR, IL, KY, NC, OK
Rusty Patched Bumble Bee Home
Rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis)
Status: Proposed as Endangered
Habitat: Grasslands with flowering plants from April through October, underground and abandoned rodent cavities or clumps of grasses above ground as nesting sites, and undisturbed soil for hibernating queens to overwinter.
Lead Region: Region 3 (Midwest)
Region 3 Lead Office: Twin Cities Field Office
Current Range: IL, IN, IA, ME, MD, MA, MN, NC, OH, PA, TN, VA, WI and Ontario, Canada
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: Arkansas, Missouri
crayfish (Cambarus aculabrum) species profile
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: Illinois
Illinois
cave amphipod Home
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: Alabama, Michigan, New York, Tennessee
American hart's-tongue fern Home
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: Illinois, Missouri
Decurrent false aster Home
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: Michigan, Wisconsin
Dwarf lake iris Home
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: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Virginia, Wisconsin
Eastern prairie fringed orchid Home
Fassett's locoweed (Oxytropis
campestris var. chartacea)
Status: Threatened, listed
September 28, 1988
Habitat: Open sandy lakeshores
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Wisconsin/Minnesota Field Office
Range: Wisconsin
Fassett's locoweed Home
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: Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Texas
Geocarpon (Geocarpon minimum) Home
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: Michigan, New York
Houghton's goldenrod Home
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: Illinois, Michigan, Ohio
Lakeside daisy Home
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: Alabama, Illinois, Tennessee
Leafy prairie-clover Home
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 Field Office
Range: driftless area of southeastern Minnesota
Leedy's roseroot Home
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: Columbia, Missouri Field Office
Range: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin
Mead's milkweed Home
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: Michigan
Michigan monkey-flower Home
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: Minnesota
Minnesota dwarf trout lily Home
Missouri bladder-pod (Physaria
filiformis)
Status: Threatened, first
listed as Endangered on January 8, 1987
Reclassified to threatened Oct. 15, 2003
Habitat: Open glades in shallow limestone soils
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: ColumbiaES, Missouri
Field Office
Range: Missouri
Missouri Bladder-Pod Home
Northern wild monkshood (Aconitum
noveboracense)
Status: Threatened, listed
May 26, 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
Northern wild monkshood Home
Pitcher's thistle (Cirsium
pitcheri)
Status: Threatened, listed
July 18, 1988
Habitat: Stablized dunes and blowout areas
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: East
Lansing, Michigan Field Office
Range: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin
Pitcher's thistle Home
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: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina
Pondberry Home
Prairie bush-clover (Lespedeza
leptostachya)
Status: Threatened, listed
January 9, 1987
Habitat: Dry to mesic prairies with gravelly soils
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Wisconsin - Minnesota Field Office
Range: Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin
Prairie bush-clover Home
Price's potato-bean (Apios
priceana)
Status: Threatened, listed
January 5, 1990
Habitat: Wet floodplain forests, shrubby swamps
Lead Region: 4
Region 3 Lead Office: Rock Island,
Illinois Field Office
Range: Alabama, Illinois, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee
Price's potato-bean Home
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: Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, West Virginia
Running buffalo clover Home
Short's
bladderpod (Physaria globosa)
Status: Endangered, listed August 1, 2014
Critical Habitat, designated August 26, 2014
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: Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee
Short's
bladderpod Home
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: Indiana, Kentucky
Short's
goldenrod Home
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: Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia
Small Whorled Pogonia Home
Virginia
sneezeweed (Helenium virginicum)
Status: Threatened, listed
November 3, 1998
Habitat: Sinkhole ponds
Lead Region: 5
Region 3 Lead Office: ColumbiaES, Missouri
Field Office
Range: Missouri, Virginia
Virginia
Sneezeweed Home
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: Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia
Virginia Spiraea Home
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: Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota
Western prairie fringed orchid Home
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