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Endangered Species in Colorado
Endangered and threatened species with a current range in this state
- Listed species
- 35
- Endangered
- 14
- Threatened
- 21
Species are listed under the Endangered Species Act as endangered or threatened, with the counties where the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service records their current range. A county listing means the species is known or believed to occur there, not that it lives at any particular property. Some species protected only by NOAA Fisheries may not be listed.
Flowering Plants (16)
- Clay-Loving wild buckwheatEriogonum pelinophilumEndangeredListed 07/13/1984 · 3 counties
- DeBeque phaceliaPhacelia submuticaThreatenedListed 08/26/2011 · 2 counties
- Dudley Bluffs bladderpodLesquerella congestaThreatenedListed 02/06/1990 · 1 county
- Dudley Bluffs twinpodPhysaria obcordataThreatenedListed 02/06/1990 · 2 counties
- Knowlton's cactusPediocactus knowltoniiEndangeredListed 11/28/1979 · 2 counties
- Mancos milk-vetchAstragalus humillimusEndangeredListed 06/27/1985 · 2 counties
- Mesa Verde cactusSclerocactus mesae-verdaeThreatenedListed 11/29/1979 · 1 county
- Navajo sedgeCarex specuicolaThreatenedListed 05/08/1985 · 1 county
- North Park phaceliaPhacelia formosulaEndangeredListed 09/01/1982 · 4 counties
- Osterhout milkvetchAstragalus osterhoutiiEndangeredListed 07/13/1989 · 2 counties
- Pagosa skyrocketIpomopsis polyanthaEndangeredListed 08/26/2011 · 1 county
- Parachute beardtonguePenstemon debilisThreatenedListed 08/26/2011 · 5 counties
- Penland alpine fen mustardEutrema penlandiiThreatenedListed 07/28/1993 · 3 counties
- Penland beardtonguePenstemon penlandiiEndangeredListed 07/13/1989 · 1 county
- Ute ladies'-tressesSpiranthes diluvialisThreatenedListed 01/17/1992 · 19 counties
- Western prairie fringed OrchidPlatanthera praeclaraThreatenedListed 09/28/1989 · 26 counties
Birds (6)
- Eastern Black railLaterallus jamaicensis jamaicensisThreatenedListed 11/09/2020 · 21 counties
- Gunnison Sage-grouseCentrocercus minimusThreatenedListed 12/22/2014 · 12 counties
- Mexican spotted owlStrix occidentalis lucidaThreatenedListed 03/16/1993 · 43 counties
- Piping PloverCharadrius melodus[Atlantic Coast and Northern Great Plains populations] - Wherever found, except those areas where listed as endangered.ThreatenedListed 12/11/1985 · 5 counties
- Southwestern willow flycatcherEmpidonax traillii extimusEndangeredListed 02/27/1995 · 13 counties
- Yellow-billed CuckooCoccyzus americanusWestern DPS: U.S.A. (AZ, CA, CO (western), ID, MT (western), NM (western), NV, OR, TX (western), UT, WA, WY (western)); Canada (British Columbia (southwestern); Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Durango (western), Sinaloa, Sonora)ThreatenedListed 11/03/2014 · 27 counties
Fishes (6)
- BonytailGila elegansEndangeredListed 04/23/1980 · 5 counties
- Colorado pikeminnowPtychocheilus luciusWherever found, except where listed as an experimental populationEndangeredListed 03/11/1967 · 6 counties
- Greenback Cutthroat troutOncorhynchus clarkii stomiasThreatenedListed 03/11/1967 · 13 counties
- Humpback chubGila cyphaThreatenedListed 03/11/1967 · 2 counties
- Pallid sturgeonScaphirhynchus albusEndangeredListed 09/06/1990 · 26 counties
- Razorback suckerXyrauchen texanusThreatenedListed 10/23/1991 · 6 counties
Mammals (4)
- Black-footed ferretMustela nigripesWherever found, except where listed as an experimental populationEndangeredListed 03/11/1967 · 9 counties
- Canada LynxLynx canadensisWherever Found in Contiguous U.S.ThreatenedListed 03/24/2000 · 42 counties
- New Mexico meadow jumping mouseZapus hudsonius luteusEndangeredListed 07/10/2014 · 16 counties
- Preble's meadow jumping mouseZapus hudsonius prebleiwherever foundThreatenedListed 05/13/1998 · 17 counties
Insects (3)
- Pawnee montane skipperHesperia leonardus montanaThreatenedListed 09/25/1987 · 4 counties
- SilverspotSpeyeria nokomis nokomisThreatenedListed 03/18/2024 · 25 counties
- Uncompahgre fritillary butterflyBoloria acrocnemaEndangeredListed 06/24/1991 · 14 counties
Source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, ECOS
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