Illinois

Mammals

Gray bat
(Myotis grisescens)

Endangered

Alexander, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Pike, Pope, Pulaski

Caves and mines; rivers & reservoirs adjacent to forests

Indiana bat
(Myotis sodalis)

Potential Habitat Statewide; Known Occurrences In: Adams, Alexander, Bond, Ford, Hardin, Henderson, Jackson, Jersey, Johnson, LaSalle, Lawrence, Macoupin, Madison, McDonough, Monroe, Perry, Pike, Pope, Pulaski, Saline, Schuyler, Scott, Union, Vermilion

Caves, mines (hibernacula);

small stream corridors with well developed riparian woods; upland forests (foraging)

Birds

Least Tern
(Sterna antillarum)

Endangered

Alexander, Massac, Jackson, Pope, Wabash

Bare alluvial and dredged spoil islands

Piping Plover
(Charadrius melodus)

Endangered

Cook, Lake

Lake Michigan shoreline

Piping Plover
(Charadrius melodus)

Critical Habitat Designated

Lake

Reptile

Eastern Massasauga
(Sistrurus catenatus)

Candidate

Cook, Dupage, Lake, Will, Knox, Piatt, Fayette, Clinton

Fish

Pallid Sturgeon
(Scaphirynchus albus)

Endangered

Alexander, Union, Jackson, Randolph, Monroe, St. Clair, Madison

Large rivers

Mussels

Clubshell
(Pleurobema clava)

Endangered

Vermillion

Rivers

Fanshell mussel
(Cyprogenia stegaria)
(=C. irrorata)

Endangered

White

Wabash River

Fat pocketbook pearlymussel
(Potamilis capax)

Endangered

Massac, Pope, Gallatin, White, Wabash, Lawrence

Mississippi, Wabash, Little Wabash, Ohio Rivers

Higgins eye pearlymussel
(Lampsilis higginsi)

Endangered

Jo Daviess, Rock Island, Mercer, Henderson

Mississippi River;
Rock River to Steel Dam

Orange-footed pearlymussel
(Plethobasis cooperianus)
(=P. striatus)

 Endangered

Pulaski

Ohio River below confluence with Cumberland River

Pink Mucket pearlymussel
(Lampsilis orbiculata)
(=Plethobasis abrupta)

Endangered

Massac

Ohio River

Sheepnose mussel
(Plethobasus cyphyus)

Candidate

Adams, Alexander, Carroll, Clark, Clinton, Crawford, Fayette, Ford, Fulton, Gallatin, Grundy, Hancock, Henderson, Jasper, Jo Daviess, Kane, Kankakee, LaSalle, Lawrence, Mason, Massac, Menard, Mercer, Morgan, Pike, Pulaski, Rock Island, Sangamon, Schuyler, Scott, Shelby, Wabash, Washington, White, Whiteside, Will, Winnebago

Rivers

Spectaclecase mussel
(Cumberlandia monodonta)

Candidate

Adams, Calhoun, Fulton, Greene, Grundy, Hancock, Henderson, Mason, Massac, Mercer, Pike, Rock Island, Wabash, White, Will

Rivers

Iowa pleistocene snail
(Discus macclintocki)

Endangered

Jo Daviess

North-facing algific talus slopes of the driftless area

Insects

Hine's emerald dragonfly
(Somatochlora hineana)

Endangered

Cook, Dupage, Will (Des Plaines River drainage)

Spring fed wetlands, wet meadows and marshes

Karner blue butterfly
(Lycaeides melissa samuelis)

Endangered

Lake

Pine barrens and oak savannas on sandy soils and containing wild lupines (Lupinus perennis), the only known food plant of the larvae

Crustacean

Illinois cave amphipod
(Gammarus acherondytes)

Endangered

Monroe, St. Clair

Cave streams in Illinois sinkhole plain

Plants

Decurrent false aster
(Boltonia decurrens)

Threatened

Bureau, Cass, Fulton, Jersey, LaSalle, Madison, Marshall, Mason, Morgan, Peoria, Pike, Putnam, St. Clair, Schuyler, Scott, Tazewell, Woodford

Disturbed alluvial soils

Eastern prairie fringed orchid
(Platanthaera leucophaea)

Threatened

POTENTIAL HABITAT STATEWIDE; KNOWN OCCURRENCES IN: Cook, Dupage, Grundy, Henry, Iroquois, Kane, Lake, McHenry

Mesic to wet prairies

Lakeside daisy
(Hymenopsis herbacea)

Threatened

Clinton, Tazewell, Will

Dry rocky prairies

Leafy prairie clover
(Dalea foliosa)

Endangered

Cook, Dupage, Will

Prairie remnants on thin soil over limestone

Mead's milkweed
(Asclepias meadii)

Threatened

Cook, Dupage, Ford, Saline, Will

Virgin prairies

Pitcher's thistle
(Cirsium pitcheri)

Threatened

Lake

Lakeshore dunes

Prairie bush clover
(Lespedeza leptostachya)

Threatened

POTENTIAL HABITAT STATEWIDE; KNOWN OCCURRENCES IN: Cook, Dupage, Ogle, Lee, McHenry, Winnebago

Dry to mesic prairies with gravelly soil

Price's potato bean
(Apios priceana)

Threatened

Pulaski

Wet floodplain forests, shrubby swamps

Small whorled pogonia
(Isotria medeoloides)

Threatened

Randolph

Dry woodlands