Mammals

Indiana bat
(Myotis sodalis)

Endangered

All counties in Ohio

Hibernacula = Caves and mines;
Maternity and foraging habitat = small stream corridors with well developed riparian woods; upland forests

Piping plover
(Charadrius melodus)

Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Erie, Lake, Lorain, Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky

Beaches along shorelines of the Great Lakes

Piping plover
(Charadrius melodus)

Critical Habitat Designated

Erie, Lake

Reptiles

Lake Erie water snake
(Nerodia sipedon insularum)

Erie, Ottawa

Shorelines of islands in western Lake Erie

Copperbelly water snake
(Nerodia erythrogaster
neglecta)

Defiance, Hardin, Williams

Wooded and permanently wet areas such as oxbows, sloughs, brushy ditches and floodplain woods

Eastern massasauga
(Sistrurus catenatus)

Candidate

Ashtabula, Champaign, Clark, Clinton, Columbiana, Crawford, Defiance, Erie, Fairfield, Fayette, Fulton, Greene, Hardin, Huron, Licking, Logan, Lorain, Lucas, Marion, Medina, Montgomery, Ottawa, Paulding, Portage, Preble, Sandusky, Seneca, Stark, Trumbull, Warren, Wayne, Wyandot

Fish

Scioto madtom
(Noturus trautmani)

Franklin, Madison, Pickaway, Union

Stream riffles of moderate flow over sandy gravel bottom

Mussels

Clubshell
(Pleurobema clava)

Endangered

Ashtabula, Champaign, Coshocton, Defiance, Delaware, Fairfield, Franklin, Greene, Hancock, Hardin, Madison, Pickaway, Pike, Ross, Scioto, Trumbull, Union, Williams

Found in coarse sand and gravel areas of runs and riffles within streams and small rivers

Fanshell
(Cyprogenia stegaria)
(=C. irrorata)

Endangered

Athens, Coshocton, Meigs, Morgan, Muskingum, Washington

Found in areas of packed sand and gravel at locations in a good current

Northern riffleshell
(Epioblasma torulosa
rangiana)

Endangered

Defiance, Franklin, Madison, Pickaway, Pike, Ross, Scioto, Union, Williams

Large streams and small rivers in firm sand of riffle areas; also occurs in Lake Erie

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

Endangered

Athens, Gallia, Meigs, Morgan, Scioto, Washington, Lawrence

The lower Ohio River and its larger tributaries

Purple cat's paw pearlymussel
(Epioblasma obliquata
obliquata)

Endangered

Coshocton

Gravel riffles of medium to large rivers

Rayed bean
(Villosa fabalis)

Candidate

Brown, Champaign, Clermont, Coshocton, Defiance, Delaware, Fairfield, Franklin, Fulton, Hancock, Hardin, Lucas, Madison, Marion, Miami, Montgomery, Morrow, Pickaway, Pike, Ross, Scioto, Union, Warren, Williams, and Wyandot

Sheepnose
(Plethobasus cyphus)

Candidate

Adams, Athens, Belmont, Brown, Clermont, Columbiana, Coshocton, Gallia, Hamilton, Jefferson, Lawrence, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Muskingum, Scioto, Washington

rivers

White cat's paw pearlymussel
(Epioblasma obliquata perobliqua )

Endangered

Defiance, Williams

Firm sand or gravel riffles in small streams and medium to large rivers

Insects

American burying beetle
(Nicrophorus americanus)

Athens, Hocking, Vinton

Mitchell's satyr
(Neonympha mitchellii mitchellii)

Endangered

Portage

Fens; wetlands characterized by calcareous soils which are fed by carbonate-rich water from seeps and springs

Karner blue butterfly
(Lycaeides melissa samuelis)

Endangered

Lucas

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

Plants

Eastern prairie fringed
orchid
(Platanthera leucophaea)

Clark, Holmes, Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky, Wayne

Mesic to wet prairies and meadows

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

Threatened

Erie, Ottawa

Dry rocky prairies; limestone rock surfaces including outcrops and quarries

Northern monkshood
(Aconitum noveboracense)

Threatened

Hocking, Portage, Summit

Cool, moist, shaded cliff faces or talus slopes in wooded ravines, near water seeps

Running buffalo clover
(Trifolium stoloniferum)

Endangered

Adams, Brown, Clermont, Hamilton, Lawrence, Scioto, Warren

Disturbed bottomland meadows; disturbed sites that have shade during part of each day

Virginia spiraea
(Spirea virginiana)

Threatened

Scioto

Stream banks and floodplains

Small whorled pogonia
(Isotria medeoloides)

Threatened

Hocking, Scioto

Dry woodland; upland sites in mixed forests (second or third growth stage)