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Plants
Endangered, Threatened, Proposed, and Candidates
in the Upper Midwest
Dwarf lake iris
Photo courtesy of Joel Trick
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
Dwarf lake iris (Iris lacustris)
Status: Threatened, listed September 28, 1988
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
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
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
Lakeside daisy (Hymenoxys acaulis var. glabra)
Status: Threatened, listed June 23, 1988
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
Mead's milkweed (Asclepias meadii)
Status: Threatened, listed
September 1, 1988
Michigan monkey-flower (Mimulus michiganensis)
Status: Endangered, listed June 21, 1990
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
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
- Recovery Plan for Northern Monkshood (1983)
83-page PDF; 7.5MB
Pitcher's thistle (Cirsium pitcheri)
Status: Threatened - listed July 18, 1988
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
Prairie bush clover (Lespedeza
leptostachya)
Status: Threatened, listed June 9, 1987 (5-page PDF)
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
Running buffalo clover (Trifolium stoloniferum)
Status: Endangered, listed June 5, 1987
Short's bladderpod (Lesquerella globosa)
Status: Endangered, listed August 1, 2014
Critical Habitat, designated August 26, 2014
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
Short's goldenrod Spotlight Species Action Plan
Small whorled pogonia (Isotria medeoloides)
Status: Threatened, listed September 9, 1982
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
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
Species Profile linked to National USFWS website
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
5-Year Review (February 2009)
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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