Plants
Endangered, Threatened, Proposed, and Candidates in the Upper Midwest
American harts-tongue fern
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American hart's-tongue fern
(Asplenium
scolopendrium var. americanum)
Status: Threatened, listed
July 14, 1989
American Hart's Tongue Fern Home
Decurrent false aster
(Boltonia decurrens)
Status: Threatened, listed
November 14, 1988
Decurrent False Aster Home
Dwarf lake iris
(Iris lacustris)
Status: Threatened, listed September 28, 1988
Dwarf Lake Iris Home
Eastern prairie fringed orchid
(Platanthera
leucophaea)
Status: Threatened, listed September 28, 1989
Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid Home
Fassett's locoweed
(Oxytropis campestris
var. chartacea)
Status: Threatened, listed September 28, 1988
Fassett's locoweed Home
Geocarpon (no common name)
(Geocarpon minimum)
Status: Threatened, listed
June 16, 1987
Habitat: Moist soils in exposed sandstone glades
Lead Region: 4
Region 3 Lead Office: ColumbiaES, Missouri
Field Office
Range: Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Texas
Fact sheet
Species
Profile linked to National USFWS website
Houghton's goldenrod
(Solidago
houghtonii)
Status: Threatened, listed
July 18, 1988
Habitat: Sandy flats along Great Lakes shores
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: East
Lansing, Michigan Field Office
Range: Michigan, New York
Life History, Ecology, and Regulatory Information
Fact sheet
Species Profile
Recovery
2006 S6 Grant Project - Great Lakes Shoreline Project (Michigan)
Lakeside daisy
(Hymenoxys
acaulis var. glabra)
Status: Threatened, listed June 23, 1988
Lakeside Daisy Home
Leafy prairie-clover
(Delea
foliosa)
Status: Endangered, listed
May 1, 1991
Habitat: Prairie remnants on thin soil over limestone (Des Plaine
River floodplain)
Lead Region: 4
Region 3 Lead Office: Chicago
Illinois Field Office
Range: Alabama, Illinois, Tennessee
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)
Status: Threatened, listed
April 22, 1992
Leedy's Roseroot Home
Mead's milkweed
(Asclepias
meadii)
Status: Threatened, listed
September 1, 1988
Mead's Milkweed Home
Michigan monkey-flower
(Mimulus
michiganensis)
Status: Endangered, listed
June 21, 1990
Michigan Monkey-flower Home
Minnesota dwarf trout lily
(Erythronium
propullans)
Status: Endangered
Minnesota Dwarf Trout Lily Home - links to our FWS Twin Cities Field Office website
Missouri bladderpod
(Physaria
filiformis)
Status: Threatened
first
listed as Endangered on January 8, 1987
Reclassified to Threatened Oct. 15, 2003
Missouri Bladderpod Home
Northern monkshood
(Aconitum
noveborancense)
Status: Threatened, listed
May 26, 1978
Habitat: Cool, moist, shaded cliff faces or talus slopes in wooded
ravines, near water seeps
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Green Bay, Wisconsin
Field Office
Range: Iowa, New York, Ohio, Wisconsin
Life History, Ecology, and Regulatory Information
Fact sheet
Species Profile
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
Pitcher's thistle
(Cirsium
pitcheri)
Status: Threatened - listed July 18, 1988
Pitcher's Thistle Home
Pondberry
(Lindera melissifolia)
Status: Endangered, listed
July 31, 1986
Habitat: Bottomland hardwood forest, poorly drained depressions,
and margins of limestone sinks
Lead Region: 4
Region 3 Lead Office: ColumbiaES, Missouri
Field Office
Range: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina
Species Profile
Prairie bush clover
(Lespedeza
leptostachya)
Status: Threatened, listed June 9, 1987 (5-page PDF)
Prairie Bush Clover Home
Price's
potato-bean
(Apios
priceana)
Status: Threatened, listed
January 5, 1990
Habitat: Wet floodplain forests, shrubby swamps
Lead Region: 4
Region 3 Lead Office: Rock Island,
Illinois Field Office
Range: Alabama, Illinois, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee
Fact sheet
Species Profile
Running
buffalo clover
(Trifolium
stoloniferum)
Status: Endangered, listed June 5, 1987
Running Buffalo Clover Home
Short's
bladderpod
(Lesquerella globosa)
Status: Endangered, listed August 1, 2014
Critical Habitat, designated August 26, 2014
Short's Bladderpod Home
Short's goldenrod
(Solidago
shortii)
Status: Endangered, listed
September 5, 1985
Habitat: Cedar glades and openings in oak and hickory forests
Lead Region: 4
Region 3 Lead Office: Bloomington,
Indiana Field Office
Range: Indiana, Kentucky
Species Profile
Short's goldenrod Spotlight Species Action Plan
Small whorled pogonia
(Isotria
medeoloides)
Status: Threatened, listed
September 9, 1982
Small-whorled Pogonia Home
Virginia sneezeweed
(Helenium virginicum)
Status: Threatened, listed
November 3, 1998
Habitat: Sinkhole ponds
Lead Region: 5
Region 3 Lead Office: ColumbiaES, Missouri
Field Office
Range: Missouri, Virginia
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
Virginia spiraea
(Spiraea
virginiana)
Status: Threatened, listed
June 15, 1990
Habitat: Stream banks and floodplains
Lead Region: 5
Region 3 Lead Office: Ohio Field Office
Range: Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia
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
Western prairie fringed orchid
(Platanthera praeclara)
Status: Threatened, listed
September 28, 1989
Habitat: Wet prairies & sedge meadows
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Wisconsin -
Minnesota Field Office
Range: Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota
Photo Photo Credit: National Park Service
Western Prairie Fringed Orchid Natural History, Ecology and Regulatory Information
Fact sheet
Species Profile
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
Midwest Endangered Species Home
