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Endangered Species in Michigan
Endangered and threatened species with a current range in this state
- Listed species
- 25
- Endangered
- 14
- Threatened
- 11
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 (6)
- Dwarf lake irisIris lacustrisThreatenedListed 09/28/1988 · 13 counties
- Eastern prairie fringed orchidPlatanthera leucophaeaThreatenedListed 09/28/1989 · 40 counties
- Houghton's goldenrodSolidago houghtoniiThreatenedListed 07/18/1988 · 12 counties
- Lakeside daisyHymenoxys herbaceaThreatenedListed 06/23/1988 · 1 county
- Michigan monkey-flowerMimulus michiganensisEndangeredListed 06/21/1990 · 6 counties
- Pitcher's thistleCirsium pitcheriThreatenedListed 07/18/1988 · 26 counties
Clams (5)
- ClubshellPleurobema clavaWherever found; Except where listed as Experimental PopulationsEndangeredListed 01/22/1993 · 1 county
- Northern riffleshellEpioblasma rangianaEndangeredListed 01/22/1993 · 3 counties
- Rayed BeanVillosa fabalisEndangeredListed 03/15/2012 · 7 counties
- Round hickorynutObovaria subrotundaThreatenedListed 04/10/2023 · 6 counties
- Snuffbox musselEpioblasma triquetraEndangeredListed 03/15/2012 · 17 counties
Insects (5)
- Hine's emerald dragonflySomatochlora hineanaEndangeredListed 01/26/1995 · 6 counties
- Hungerford's crawling water BeetleBrychius hungerfordiEndangeredListed 03/07/1994 · 13 counties
- Karner blue butterflyLycaeides melissa samuelisEndangeredListed 12/14/1992 · 12 counties
- Mitchell's satyr ButterflyNeonympha mitchellii mitchelliiEndangeredListed 06/25/1991 · 9 counties
- Poweshiek skipperlingOarisma poweshiekEndangeredListed 11/24/2014 · 8 counties
Mammals (4)
- Canada LynxLynx canadensisWherever Found in Contiguous U.S.ThreatenedListed 03/24/2000 · 15 counties
- Gray wolfCanis lupusU.S.A.: All of AL, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, IA, IN, IL, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, VT, WI, and WV; and portions of AZ, NM, OR, UT, and WA as follows: (1) Northern AZ (that portion north of the centerline of Interstate Highway 40); (2) Northern NM (that portion north of the centerline of Interstate Highway 40); (3) Western OR (that portion of OR west of the centerline of Highway 395 and Highway 78 north of Burns Junction and that portion of OR west of the centerline of Highway 95 south of Burns Junction); (4) Most of Utah (that portion of UT south and west of the centerline of Highway 84 and that portion of UT south of Highway 80 from Echo to the UT/WY Stateline); and (5) Western WA (that portion of WA west of the centerline of Highway 97 and Highway 17 north of Mesa and that portion of WA west of the centerline of Highway 395 south of Mesa). Mexico.EndangeredListed 03/09/1978 · 15 counties
- Indiana batMyotis sodalisEndangeredListed 03/11/1967 · 41 counties
- Northern Long-Eared BatMyotis septentrionalisEndangeredListed 05/04/2015 · 81 counties
Birds (2)
- Piping PloverCharadrius melodus[Great Lakes watershed DPS] - Great Lakes, watershed in States of IL, IN, MI, MN, NY, OH, PA, and WI and Canada (Ont.)EndangeredListed 12/11/1985 · 38 counties
- rufa red knotCalidris canutus rufaThreatenedListed 01/12/2015 · 43 counties
Reptiles (2)
- Copperbelly water snakeNerodia erythrogaster neglectaIndiana north of 40 degrees north latitude, Michigan, OhioThreatenedListed 01/29/1997 · 12 counties
- Eastern Massasauga (=rattlesnake)Sistrurus catenatusThreatenedListed 09/30/2016 · 57 counties
Ferns and Allies (1)
- American hart's-tongue fernAsplenium scolopendrium var. americanumThreatenedListed 07/14/1989 · 5 counties
Source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, ECOS
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