Michigan

Canada lynx

(Lynx canadensis)

Threatened

Current distribution: A Canada lynx was recently documented in the Upper Peninsula. The counties listed here have the highest potential for Lynx presence: Alger, Baraga, Chippewa, Delta, Dickinson, Gogebic, Houghton, Iron, Keweenaw, Luce, Mackinac, Marquette, Menominee, Ontonagon, Schoolcraft.

Northern forests

Indiana bat

(Myotis sodalis)

Endangered

Allegan, Barry, Bay, Benzie, Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Clinton, Eaton, Genesee, Gratiot, Hillsdale, Huron, Ingham, Ionia, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Kent, Lapeer, Leelanau, Lenawee, Livingston, Macomb, Manistee, Mason, Monroe, Montcalm, Muskegon, Oakland, Oceana, Ottawa, Saginaw, St. Joseph, Sanilac, Shiawassee, St. Clair, Tuscola, Van Buren, Washtenaw, and Wayne

Summer habitat includes small to medium river and stream corridors with well developed riparian woods; woodlots within 1 to 3 miles of small to medium rivers and streams; and upland forests. Caves and mines as hibernacula.

BIRDS

Kirtland's warbler

(Dendroica kirtlandii)

Endangered

Alcona, Alger, Antrim, Baraga, Chippewa, Clare, Crawford, Delta, Grand Traverse, Iosco, Kalkaska, Luce, Marquette, Montmorency, Ogemaw, Oscoda, Otsego, Presque Isle, Roscommon, Schoolcraft

Breeding in jack pine

Piping plover

(Chradrius melodus)

Endangered

Alger, Alpena, Benzie, Berrien, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Chippewa, Delta, Emmet, Leelanau, Luce, Mackinac, Manistee, Mason, Muskegon, Presque Isle, Schoolcraft

Beaches along shorelines of the Great Lakes

Piping plover

(Chradrius melodus)

Critical Habitat Designated

Alger, Benzie, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Chippewa, Emmet, Iosco, Leelanau, Luce, Mackinac, Mason, Muskegon, Presque Isle,  Schoolcraft

Beaches along shorelines of the Great Lakes

REPTILES

Copperbelly water snake

(Nerodia erythrogaster neglecta)

Threatened

Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Eaton, Hillsdale, St. Joseph

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

Eastern massasauga

(Sistrurus catenatus)

Candidate

Alcona, Allegan, Alpena, Antrim, Arenac, Barry, Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Cheboygan, Clare, Clinton, Crawford, Eaton, Emmett, Genesee, Grand Traverse, Hillsdale, Huron, Ingham, Ionia, Iosco, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Kalkaska, Kent, Lake, Lapeer, Lenawee, Livingston, Mackinac, Macomb, Manistee, Mason, Missaukee, Montcalm, Montmorency, Muskegon, Newaygo, Oakland, Oscoda, Presque Isle, Saginaw, St. Joseph, Shiawassee, Van Buren, Washtenaw, Wayne

INSECTS

Hine's emerald dragonfly

(Somatochlora hineana)

Endangered

Alcona, Alpena, Mackinac, Menominee, Presque Isle

Spring fed wetlands, wet meadows and marshes; calcareous streams & associated wetlands overlying dolomite bedrock

Hungerford's crawling water beetle

(Brychius hungerfordi)

Endangered

Emmet, Montmorency, Oscoda, Presque Isle

Cool riffles of clean, slightly alkaline streams; known to occur in five streams in northern Michigan.

Karner blue butterfly

(Lycaeides melissa samuelis)

Endangered

Allegan, Ionia, Kent, Lake, Mason, Mecosta, Monroe, Montcalm, Muskegon, Newaygo, Oceana

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

Mitchell's satyr

(Neonympha mitchellii mitchellii)

Endangered

Barry, Berrien, Branch, Cass, Jackson, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, Van Buren, Washtenaw

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

Poweshiek skipperling

(Oarisma poweshiek)

Candidate

Jackson, Lenawee, Livingston, Oakland, Washtenaw

Wet prairie and fens

MUSSELS

Clubshell

(Pleurobema clava)

Endangered

Hillsdale

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

Northern riffleshell (Epioblasma torulosa rangiana)

Endangered

Monroe, Sanilac, Wayne

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

Rayed Bean

(Villosa fabalis) 

Endangered

Hillsdale, Lenawee, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, St. Clair, and Wayne

Belle, Black, Clinton, and Pine Rivers

Snuffbox

(Epioblasma triquetra)

Endangered

Gratiot, Ionia, Kent, Livingston, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, St. Clair, Washtenaw

Small to medium-sized creeks in areas with a swift current and some larger rivers

PLANTS

American hart's tongue fern

(Asplenium scolopendrium var. americanun = Phyllitis japonica ssp. a.)

Threatened

Chippewa, Mackinac

Cool limestone sinkholes in mature hardwood forest

Dwarf lake iris

(Iris lacustris)

Threatened

Alpena, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Chippewa, Delta, Emmet, Mackinac, Menominee, Presque Isle, Schoolcraft

Partially shaded sandy-gravelly soils on lakeshores

Eastern prairie fringed orchid

(Plantathera leucophaea)

Threatened

Bay, Cheboygan, Clinton, Eaton, Genesee, Gratiot, Huron, Livingston, Monroe, Saginaw, St. Clair, St. Joseph, Tuscola, Washtenaw, Wayne

Mesic to wet prairies and meadows

Houghton's goldenrod

(Solidago houghtonii)

Threatened

Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Chippewa, Crawford, Emmet, Kalkaska, Mackinac, Presque Isle, Schoolcraft

Sandy flats along Great Lakes shores

Lakeside daisy

(Hymenoxy acaulis var. glabra)

Threatened

Mackinac

Dry, rocky prairie grassland underlain by limestone

Michigan monkey-flower

(Mimulus michiganesis)

Endangered

Benzie, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Emmet, Leelanau, Mackinac

Soils saturated with cold flowing spring water; found along seepages, streams and lakeshores

Pitcher's thistle

(Cirsium pitcheri)

Threatened

Alcona, Alger, Allegan, Alpena, Antrim, Arenac, Benzie, Berrien, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Chippewa, Delta, Emmet, Grand Traverse, Huron, Iosco, Leelanau, Mackinac, Manistee, Mason, Muskegon, Oceana, Ottawa, Presque Isle, Schoolcraft, Van Buren

Stabilized dunes and blowout areas

Small whorled pogonia

(Isotria medeoloides)

Threatened

Berrien

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