Indiana

Gray bat
(Myotis grisescens)

Endangered

Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Perry, Spencer

Caves

Indiana bat
(Myotis sodalis)

Endangered

Statewide
CRITICAL HABITAT: Big Wyandotte Cave (Crawford County), Ray's Cave (Greene County)

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

Least tern
(Sterna antillarum)

Endangered

Gibson

Piping plover
(Charadrius melodus)

Critical Habitat Designated

Porter - 7.9 km of Lake Michigan shoreline (5 km are part of Indiana Dunes State Park and the remainng 2.9 km are part of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore) No recent records

REPTILES

Copperbelly water snake
(Nerodia erythrogaster neglecta)

Threatened

Kosciusko, St. Joseph, Steuben

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

Eastern massasauga
(Sistrurus c. catenatus)

Candidate

Allen, Carroll, Elkhart, Kosciuscko, Lagrange, LaPorte, Marshall, Noble, Porter, Pulaski, St. Joseph, Steuban, Tippecanoe

MUSSELS

Clubshell
(Pleurobema clava)

Endangered

Carroll, Dekalb, Fulton, Kosciusko, Marshall, Pulaski, Starke, Tippecanoe, White

Rivers

Fanshell

(Cyprogenia stegaria)

Endangered

Carroll, Daviess, Dubois, Lawrence, Martin, Pike, Tippecanoe, Wabash, White

Rivers

Fat pocketbook
(Potamilus capax)

Endangered

Daviess, Gibson, Knox, Pike and Posey

Rivers

Northern riffleshell
(Epioblasma torulosa rangiana)

Endangered

Dekalb, Pulaski

Rivers

Rabbitsfoot

(Quadrula cylindrica cylindrica)

Candidate

Carroll, Cass, Fulton, Miami, Pulaski, , Spencer, Starke, Tippecanoe, and White

Rivers

Rayed Bean
(Villosa fabalis)

Candidate

Allen, Carroll, Dekalb, Fulton, Johnson, Kosciusko, Marshall, Pulaski, Starke, Tippecanoe, and White

St. Joseph and Tippecanoe Rivers, Sugar Creek, Lake Maxinkuckee

Rough pigtoe
(Pleurobema plenum)

Endangered

Martin

Rivers

Sheepnose (Plethobasus cyphyus)

Candidate

Carroll, Cass, Clark, Floyd, Fulton, Harrison, Jefferson, Knox, Marshall, Martin, Pulaski, Spencer, Starke, Switzerland, Tippecanoe, Vanderburgh, Warrick, White

Eel River,

Ohio River,

Tippecanoe River,

East Fork White River,

and Wabash River

White cat's paw pearlymussel
(Epioblasma obliquata perobliqua)

Endangered

Dekalb

Rivers

INSECTS

Mitchell's satyr
(Neonympha mitchellii)

Endangered

LaGrange, LaPorte

Fens

Karner blue butterfly
(Lycaeides melissa samuelis)

Endangered

Lake, Porter

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

PLANTS

Eastern prairie fringed orchid
(Plantathera leucophaea)

Threatened

White

Mesic to wet prairies and meadows

Mead's milkweed

Threatened

Lake

Prairies

Pitcher's thistle
(Cirsium pitcheri)

Threatened

Lake, Porter

Lakeshores; stabilized dunes and blowout areas

Running buffalo clover
(Trifolium stoloniferum)

Endangered

Dearborn, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland

Disturbed bottomland meadows

Short's bladderpod
(Lesquerella globosa)

Candidate

Posey

Short's goldenrod
(Solidago shortii)