| Species |
Status |
County |
Habitat |
Mammals |
Canada
lynx
(Lynx canadensis) |
Threatened |
Aitkin,
Beltrami, Carlton, Cass, Clearwater, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching,
Lake, Lake of The Woods, Marshall, Pine, Roseau, St. Louis |
Northern
forested areas |
Canada
lynx
(Lynx canadensis) |
Critical Habitat |
Koochiching, St. Louis |
Map of lynx critical habitat in Minnesota |
Canada
lynx
(Lynx canadensis) |
Proposed Critical Habitat Revision - go here for information about the proposed Critical Habitat revision |
Cook, Koochiching, Lake, St. Louis |
Map of proposed lynx critical habitat in Minnesota |
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Birds |
Piping
plover
(Charadrius melodus)
Great Lakes Breeding Population |
Endangered |
St.
Louis County |
Sandy
beaches, islands |
Piping
plover
(Charadrius melodus)
Northern
Great Plains Breeding Population |
Threatened |
Lake
of The Woods |
Sandy
beaches, islands |
Piping
plover
(Charadrius melodus)
Great Lakes Breeding Population |
Critical
Habitat |
St.
Louis County |
|
Piping
plover
(Charadrius melodus)
Northern Great Plains Breeding Population |
Critical
Habitat |
Lake
of the Woods |
|
Reptiles |
Eastern
massasauga (Sistrurus
catenatus catenatus) |
Candidate |
Houston,
Wabasha, Winona |
Floodplain
wetlands and nearby upland areas along the Mississippi River
and Tributaries in Houston, Wabasha, and Winona Counties |
Fish |
Topeka
shiner
(Notropis topeka) |
Endangered |
Lincoln,
Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock |
Prairie
rivers and streams |
Topeka
shiner
(Notropis topeka) |
Critical
Habitat |
Lincoln,
Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock |
|
Insects |
Dakota
skipper
(Hesperia dacotae) |
Candidate |
Big
Stone, Chippewa, Clay, Cottonwood, Kittson,
Lac Qui Parle, Lincoln, Murray, Norman, Pipestone, Polk, Pope,
Swift, Traverse, Yellow Medicine |
Native
prairie habitat |
Karner
blue butterfly
(Lycaeides melissa samuelis) |
Endangered |
Winona |
Pine
barrens and oak savannas on sandy soils and containing wild
lupines (Lupinus perennis), the only known food
plant of larvae. |
Mussels |
Higgins
eye pearlymussel
(Lampsilis higginsii) |
Endangered |
Chisago,
Dakota, Goodhue, Hennepin, Houston, Ramsey, Wabasha, Washington,
Winona |
Mississippi
and St. Croix Rivers |
Sheepnose
(Plethobasus cyphyus) |
Candidate |
Wabasha,
Washington, Winona |
Mississippi
River in Wabasha and Winona counties, St. Croix River in Washington
county |
Spectaclecase (Cumberlandia monodonta) |
Candidate |
Chisago,
Pine, Washington |
St.
Croix River and Rush Creek |
Winged
mapleleaf
(Quadrula fragosa) |
Endangered |
Chisago,
Washington |
St.
Croix River |
Plants |
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Minnesota
dwarf trout lily
(Erythronium propullans) |
Endangered |
Dodge, Goodhue, Rice, and Steele |
North
facing slopes and floodplains in deciduous forest |
Leedy's
roseroot
(Sedum integrifolium ssp. leedyi) |
Threatened |
Fillmore,
Olmsted |
Cool,
wet groundwater-fed limestone cliffs |
Prairie bush clover
(Lespedeza leptostachya) |
Threatened |
Brown,
Cottonwood, Dakota, Dodge, Goodhue, Jackson, Martin, Mower,
Nobles, Olmsted, Redwood, Renville, Rice, Rock |
Native
prairie on well-drained soils |
Western
prairie fringed orchid
(Platanthera praeclara) |
Threatened |
Clay,
Kittson, Lincoln, Mower, Nobles, Norman, Pennington, Pipestone,
Polk, Red Lake, Rock |
Wet
prairies and sedge meadows |
