Michigan

Endangered, Threatened, and Candidate Species

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This is a list of federally threatened or endangered species in Michigan.  For the Michigan state listed threatened or endangered species, please contact the Michigan Department of Natural Resources

 

Mammals | Birds | Reptiles | Clams | Insects | Plants

 

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MAMMALS

Canada lynx
Lynx canadensis
Threatened

 

Gray wolf, Canis lupus

Endangered

 

Indiana bat
Myotis sodalis
Endangered

 

BIRDS

Kirtland's warbler
Dendroica kirtlandii
Endangered

 

Piping plover (Great Lakes population)
Charadrius melodus
Endangered
Critical Habitat designated

 

Whooping crane
Grus americanus
Non-essential Experimental Population

 

REPTILES

Copperbelly water snake
Nerodia erythrogaster neglecta
Threatened in northern part of its range (north of 40 degrees north latitude, roughly Indianapolis). It is not listed in the southern part of its range.

 

Eastern Massasauga
Sistrurus catenatus
Candidate

 

CLAMS (Freshwater Mussels, Unionids)

Clubshell
Pleurobema clava
Endangered

 

Northern riffleshell
Epioblasma torulosa rangiana
Endangered

 

Rayed Beanl
(Villosa fabalis)
Candidate

 

INSECTS

American burying beetle (=giant carrion)
Nicrophorus americanus
Endangered

 

Hungerford's crawling water beetle
Brychius hungerfordi
Endangered

 

Karner blue butterfly
Lycaeides melissa samuelis
Endangered

 

Hine's emerald dragonfly
Somatochlora hineana
Endangered

 

Mitchell's satyr butterfly
Neonympha mitchellii mitchellii
Endangered

 

PLANTS

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

 

Dwarf lake iris
Iris lacustris
Threatened

 

Eastern prairie fringed orchid
Platanthera leucophaea
Threatened

 

Houghton's goldenrod
Solidago houghtonii
Threatened

 

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

 

Michigan monkey-flower
Mimulus glabratus var. michiganensis
Endangered

 

Pitcher's thistle
Cirsium pitcheri
Threatened

 

Small whorled pogonia
Isotria medeoloides
Threatened

 

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List Updated September 2007

Last updated: July 28, 2009