Plants
Endangered, Threatened, Proposed, and Candidates in the Upper Midwest
American harts-tongue fern
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Photo
Fact Sheet
Species
Profile linked to National USFWS website
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Natural History, Ecology, and Regulatory Information
Fact sheet
Species
Profile linked to National USFWS website
Recovery
5 Year Review Initiated March 30, 2006
Photo
Life History, Ecology, and Regulatory Information
Fact sheet
Species
Profile linked to National USFWS website
Recovery
2006 S6 Grant Project - Great Lakes Shoreline Project (Michigan)
Photos (on Flickr)
Natural History, Ecology, and Regulatory Information
USFWS Fact sheet
Species
Profile linked to National USFWS website
USFWS Chicago Field Office's Species
Spotlight
Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid in Michigan: Michigan Natural Features Inventory Abstract - 3-page PDF
Sex and the Prairie - Chicago Wilderness Magazine
Sphinx Moths: Bird and Bee Impersonators - Chicago Wilderness Magazine
Recovery
Ballad of the Hairy-fruited Sedge (update on Eastern prairie-fringed orchid populations in Missouri): March 29, 2011
Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid Five-Year Review: 33-page PDF; 734KB (August 16, 2010)
Section 6 Grant Project (2006): Determination of the status of Piping Plovers, Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid,
Prairie Bush Clover, Fassett's Locoweed, and implement recovery management for Karner
Blue Butterfly and Fassett's Locoweed (Wisconsin)
2006 Recovery Land Acquisition Grant: Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid in Wisconsin (Rock County, WI)
Recovering a Prairie Orchid 2-page PDF (2003 Endangered Species Technical Bulletin)
Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid Recovery Plan (1999) (pdf file 868KB; 63 pages)
Fassett's locoweed (Oxytropis campestris
var. chartacea)
Photo
Natural History, Ecology, and Regulatory Information
Fact sheet
Species
Profile linked to National USFWS website
Recovery
Recovery Land Acquisition Grant (2010): Plainfield Tunnel Channel Lakes State Natural Area (Waushara County, WA) $165,500
Section 6 Grant: Determination of the status of Piping Plovers, Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid,
Prairie Bush Clover, Fassett's Locoweed, and implement recovery management for Karner
Blue Butterfly and Fassett's Locoweed (Wisconsin)
Geocarpon (no common name) (Geocarpon minimum)
Photo
Fact sheet
Photo
Life History, Ecology, and Regulatory Information
Fact sheet
Michigan
Department of Natural Resources Fact Sheet (PDF)
Recovery
2006 S6 Grant Project - Great Lakes Shoreline Project (Michigan)
Lakeside daisy(Hymenoxys
acaulis var. glabra)
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Lakeside Daisy Life History, Ecology, and Regulatory Information
USFWS Fact sheet
USFWS Chicago Field Office's Species
Spotlight
USFWS Reynoldsburg Ohio Field Office's Fact
Sheet
Lakeside Daisy Recovery
Lakeside Daisy 5-Year Review (24-page PDF)
S6 Grant Project (2006) - Great Lakes Shoreline Project (Michigan)
Photo
USFWS Fact sheet
USFWS Chicago Field Office's Species
Spotlight
Leafy Prairie-clover Recovery Plan (5.87MB PDF)
Leedy's roseroot (Rhodiola integrifolia
ssp. leedyi)
Photos
Fact sheet
Federal Register Final Rule: Technical Corrections for Three Midwest Region Plant Species (Sept. 14, 2010) - - includes Leedy's roseroot
Photo
Mead's Milkweed Life History, Ecology, and Regulatory Information
USFWS Fact sheet
USFWS Chicago Field Office's Species
Spotlight
Mead's Milkweed Recovery
Private Stewardship Grant (May 2007): Southern Iowa Oak Savanna and Grand River Grassland Cooperative Restoration Initiative – Clarke, Decatur and Lucas Counties, Iowa; Ringgold County, Missouri – ($193,625*)
Mead's Milkweed Recovery
Plan (PDF 1.2MB; 131 pages)
Federal
Register Notice of Availability - Approved
Recovery Plan for the Mead’s Milkweed (Asclepias meadii) September 22, 2003
News
Release U.S.
Fish & Wildlife Service Releases Recovery Plan for the Mead's
Milkweed - September 22, 2003
Photo
Life History, Ecology, and Regulatory Information
Federal Register Final Rule: Technical Corrections for Three Midwest Region Plant Species (Sept. 14, 2010) - - includes Michigan monkey-flower
Fact sheet
Michigan Natural Features Inventory
Department of Natural Resources Fact Sheet
html version
PDF version
Recovery
Michigan Monkey-Flower 5-Year Review - May 2011 (19-page PDF 
)
2011 Preventing Extinction Grant - Michigan Monkeyflower Preventing Extinction Funding Request (3-page PDF) This grant request was funded.
2006 S6 Grant Project - Great Lakes Shoreline Project (Michigan)
Minnesota Dwarf Trout Lily Home - links to our FWS Twin Cities Field Office website
Missouri bladderpod web pages
Photo
Life History, Ecology, and Regulatory Information
Fact sheet
Recovery
Recovery Land Acquisition Grant (2010): Chase Creek Algific Talus Slope State Natural Area (Grant County, WI) $180,000
2006 S6 Grant Project - Great Lakes Shoreline Project (Michigan)
2006 Recovery Land Acquisition Grant: Northern Monkshood and Iowa Pleistocene Snail Recovery Land Acquisition (Clayton County, IA)
Recovery Plan for Northern Monkshood (1983) 83-page PDF; 7.5MB
Photo
Natural History, Ecology, and Regulatory Information
USFWS Fact sheet
USFWS Chicago Field Office's Species
Spotlight
Recovery
2006 S6 Grant Project - Great Lakes Shoreline Project (Michigan)
5 Year Review - February 2, 2010 29-page PDF
Pitcher's
Thistle Recovery Plan PDF
Pondberry (Lindera melissifolia)
Photo
Life
History and Listing Information
Photo
Prairie Bush Clover Natural History, Ecology, and Regulatory Information
Fact sheet
Prairie Bush Clover Recovery
Recovery Land Acquisition Grant (2010): Empire Prairies State Natural Area (Dane County, WI) $405,523
Private Stewardship Grant (May 2007): Restore Native Prairie and Oak Savanna Communities In the Little Sioux Watershed in Northwest Iowa – Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, and O’Brien Counties, Iowa – ($81,000*)
Section 6 Grant Project (2006): Determination of the status of Piping Plovers, Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid,
Prairie Bush Clover, Fassett's Locoweed, and implement recovery management for Karner
Blue Butterfly and Fassett's Locoweed (Wisconsin)
S6 Grant Project (2006): Recovery activities for selected federally listed species in Minnesota
1988: Prairie Bush Clover Recovery Plan (11MB PDF)
Photo
Fact sheet
Running
buffalo clover (Trifolium
stoloniferum)
Photo
Natural History, Ecology, and Regulatory Information
Species
Profile linked to National USFWS website
Fact
sheet
Field Office - USFWS Reynoldsburg Ohio Field Office's
Southeast
Species Account
Recovery
Running Buffalo Clover 5-Year Review (September 2008)
Running Buffalo Clover Revised Recovery Plan (June 2007)
Federal Register Notice of Availability of
Running Buffalo Clover Revised Recovery Plan - 2-page PDF (June 2007)
News Release: Revised Plan Maps Recovery Strategy for Imperiled Plant (June 27, 2007)
Partner's
for Running Buffalo Clover Recovery (an article)
Section 7 Consultation and Management
Management
Recommendations for Running Buffalo Clover in Ohio
Candidate Listing
Priority Assignment Form (pdf)
Short's goldenrod (Solidago
shortii)
Southeast Region
Species Account
Photo
Fact sheet
Recovery Land Acquisition
Grant (2005)
Virginia sneezeweed (Helenium virginicum)
Life
History and Listing Information
Recovery Information
Section 6 Grant Project: Surveys for Virginia Sneezeweed (Helenium virginicum) & New Populations of Virginia Spiraea (Spiraea virginiana) in Ohio
Life History, Ecology, and Regulatory Information
Species
Profile linked to National USFWS website
Recovery Information
Section 6 Grant Project: Surveys for Virginia Sneezeweed (Helenium virginicum) & New Populations of Virginia Spiraea (Spiraea virginiana) in Ohio
Photo Photo Credit: National Park Service
Western Prairie Fringed Orchid Natural History, Ecology and Regulatory Information
Fact sheet
Western Prairie Fringed Orchid Recovery
5-Year Review (February 2009)
Recovery Land Acquisition Grant (2010): Western prairie fringed orchid – Steele Prairie State Preserve (Cherokee County, IA) $259,500.
Private Stewardship Grant (May 2007): Southern Iowa Oak Savanna and Grand River Grassland Cooperative Restoration Initiative – Clarke, Decatur and Lucas Counties, Iowa; Ringgold County, Missouri – ($193,625*)
Private Stewardship Grant (May 2007): Restore Native Prairie and Oak Savanna Communities In the Little Sioux Watershed in Northwest Iowa – Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, and O’Brien Counties, Iowa – ($81,000*)
2006 S6 Grant Project: Recovery activities for selected federally listed species in Minnesota
Western Prairie Fringed Orchid S7 Guidance
Section 7 Guidance - Determining Whether
Western Prairie Fringed Orchid (Platanthera praeclara) May be
Present in a Project Area in Minnesota
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