Endangered Plants of North America**
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| Common Name | Range *** |
|---|---|
| Acritodon nephophilus | Mexico |
| Adiantum spp. (1) | China, Puerto Rico |
| Aegiphila spp. (3) | Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua |
| Alabama Canebrake Pitcher-plant | Alabama |
| Alabama Leather Flower | Alabama |
| Albizia spp. (1) | Angola, Argentina, Benin, Brazil, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Cote d'Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire), Dominican Republic, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Jamaica, Mauritius, Mexico, New Caledonia, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Republic of Congo, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Togo, Uganda, Venezuela |
| Aleutian Shield Fern | Alaska |
| Alfaroa spp. (1) | Honduras, Mexico |
| Amargosa Niterwort | California, Nevada |
| American Chaffseed | Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia |
| American Mahogany | Florida |
| Andira galeottiana | Mexico |
| Antioch Dunes Evening-primrose | California |
| Apalachicola Rosemary | Florida |
| Applegate's Milk-vetch | Oregon |
| Ariocarpus bravoanus | Mexico |
| Arizona Hedgehog Cactus | Arizona |
| Ashy Dogweed | Texas |
| Autumn Buttercup | Utah |
| Baker's Larkspur | California |
| Banara spp. (1) | Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Puerto Rico |
| Barneby Reed-mustard | Utah |
| Beach Jacquemontia | Florida |
| Beach Layia | California |
| Beautiful Goetzea | Puerto Rico |
| Beautiful Pawpaw | Florida |
| Bedstraw (2) | California, Ecuador |
| Ben Lomond Spineflower | California |
| Ben Lomond Wallflower | California |
| Berberis spp. (2) | California, China, Ecuador, India, Kazakhstan, Peru |
| Big Leaf Mahogany | North America |
| Big-cone Pinyon | Mexico |
| Bitterwood | Puerto Rico |
| Black Lace Cactus | Texas |
| Blowout Penstemon | Nebraska |
| Boreal Felt Lichen | Canada |
| Bradshaw's Desert-parsley | Oregon, Washington |
| Brady Pincushion Cactus | Arizona |
| Braun's Rock-cress | Kentucky, Tennessee |
| Braunton's Milk-vetch | California |
| Britton's Beargrass | Florida |
| Brooksville Bellflower | Florida |
| Brunfelsia spp. (1) | Jamaica, Puerto Rico |
| Bully Tree (5) | Belize, Cape Verde, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Yemen |
| Bunched Arrowhead | North Carolina, South Carolina |
| Burke's Goldfields | California |
| Buxus spp. (1) | Jamaica, Kenya, Malawi, Puerto Rico, Tanzania |
| California Jewelflower | California |
| California Orcutt Grass | California |
| California Seablite | California |
| California Taraxacum | California |
| Calistoga Allocarya | California |
| Campbell's Liverwort | California |
| Cana Gorda Girdlepod | Puerto Rico |
| Canby's Dropwort | Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina |
| Canelo Hills Ladies'-tresses | Arizona |
| Capa rosa | Puerto Rico |
| Caper Shrub (1) | Ecuador, Hawaii, India, Mexico, Panama, Peru |
| Carex spp. (2) | California, Ecuador, North Carolina |
| Carter's Mustard | Florida |
| Catalina Island Mountain-Mahogany | California |
| Celtis spp. (1) | Mexico, New Caledonia, Philippines, Texas |
| Ceratozamia spp. (17) | Mexico |
| Chase's Threeawn | Puerto Rico |
| Chihuahua Spruce | Mexico |
| Chrysophyllum spp. (1) | Brazil, Colombia, Cote d'Ivoire, Cuba, Ghana, Peru, Puerto Rico |
| Chupacallos | Puerto Rico |
| Cigar-box Wood | North America |
| Clara Hunt's Milk-vetch | California |
| Clay Phacelia | Utah |
| Clay-loving Wild-buckwheat | Colorado |
| Clover Lupine | California |
| Coast Redwood | California, Oregon |
| Coastal Dunes Milk-vetch | California |
| Cobana Negra | Puerto Rico |
| Coccoloba spp. (2) | Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Puerto Rico |
| Commoner Lignum Vitae | Puerto Rico |
| Contra Costa Goldfields | California |
| Cook's Lomatium | Oregon |
| Cooley's Meadowrue | Florida, North Carolina |
| Cordia spp. (3) | Africa, Central America, North America, South America |
| Cornus spp. (1) | China, Mexico |
| Coryphantha spp. (8) | Arizona, Mexico, New Mexico, Texas |
| Coussarea spp. (1) | Ecuador, Mexico |
| Coyote Ceanothus | California |
| Crotalaria spp. (1) | Cameroon, Florida, Nigeria, Yemen |
| Cushion Buckwheat | California, Nevada |
| Cyathea spp. (1) | Ecuador, Puerto Rico |
| Cymbopetalum spp. (1) | Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama |
| Dalea spp. (1) | Alabama, Ecuador, Illinois, Tennessee |
| Daphnopsis spp. (1) | Cuba, Ecuador, Peru, Puerto Rico |
| Deltoid Spurge | Florida |
| Dendropanax spp. (1) | China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Malaysia, Mexico, Panama, Peru |
| Dioon spp. (10) | Mexico |
| Diospyros spp. (2) | Asia, Australia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, China, Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire), Ecuador, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, India, Indian Ocean (Seychelles), Indonesia, Kenya, Laos, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, New Caledonia, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Republic of Congo, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam |
| Dwarf Bear-poppy | Utah |
| Elaeagia spp. (1) | Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico |
| Erigeron spp. (1) | Ecuador, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Oregon |
| Erythrina spp. (2) | Cuba, Ecuador, French Polynesia, Indonesia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Tanzania |
| Eschweilera spp. (1) | Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela |
| Escobaria aguirreana | Mexico |
| Etonia Rosemary | Florida |
| Eugenia spp. (7) | Brazil, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Cote d'Ivoire, Cuba, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea (Bioko), Hawaii, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Laos, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, New Caledonia, Nigeria, Peru, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka |
| Eureka Dune Grass | California |
| False Peyote | Mexico |
| Fig Tree (1) | Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, Guyana, India, Indian Ocean (Reunion), Indian Ocean (Seychelles), Kenya, Mauritius, Mexico, Mozambique, New Caledonia, Philippines, South Africa, Tanzania |
| Flordia Torreya | Florida, Georgia |
| Florida Golden Aster | Florida |
| Florida Perforate Cladonia | Florida |
| Fountain Thistle | California |
| Four-petal Pawpaw | Florida |
| Fragrant Prickly-apple | Florida |
| Fraser Fir | North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia |
| Fringe Tree (1) | Brazil, Florida, India, Jamaica, Malaysia, Peru, Venezuela, Zambia |
| Frye's Limbella Moss | Oregon |
| Furbish Lousewort | Canada (New Brunswick), Maine |
| Gambel's Watercress | California |
| Garrett's Mint | Florida |
| Gaussia gomez-pompae | Mexico |
| Gentian Pinkroot | Alabama, Florida |
| Gentner's Fritillary | Oregon |
| Giant Sequoia | United States (California) |
| Gilia | California |
| Ginoria nudiflora | Mexico |
| Golden Barrel Cactus | Mexico |
| Gowen Cypress | California |
| Great Basin Bristlecone Pine | California, Nevada, Utah |
| Green Pitcher-plant | Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee |
| Greene's Tuctoria | California |
| Gregg's Pine | Mexico |
| Guadalupe Palm | Mexico |
| Guatemalan Fir | Mexico |
| Guthrie's Ground-plum | Tennessee |
| Hairy Orcutt Grass | California |
| Hairy Rattleweed | Georgia |
| Hampea spp. (2) | Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama |
| Harper's Beauty | Florida |
| Harperella | Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia |
| Henriettea spp. (1) | Cuba, Puerto Rico |
| Hickel's Fir | Mexico |
| Hickman's Potentilla | California |
| Higuero de sierra | Puerto Rico |
| Hoffmann's Rock-cress | California |
| Holly (4) | Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Malaysia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Taiwan, Venezuela |
| Holy Ghost Ipomopsis | New Mexico |
| Holywood Lignum Vitae | Florida, Mexico, Puerto Rico |
| Honduras Mahogany | Mexico |
| Howell's Spineflower | California |
| Hyperbaena spp. (1) | Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama |
| Indian Knob Mountain Balm | California |
| Inga spp. (6) | Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Martinique - West Indies, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela, West Indies (Dominica) |
| Ione Buckwheat | California |
| Island Malacothrix | California |
| Jatropha spp. (2) | Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico |
| Johnston's Frankenia | Mexico (Nuevo Leon), Texas |
| Juniper (6) | Bahamas, Bermuda - North Atlantic Ocean, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Portugal, Spain (Canary Islands), West Indies (St. Lucia) |
| Kansas Aschisma Moss | Kansas |
| Kearney's Blue-star | Arizona |
| Keck's Checker-mallow | California |
| Knowlton Cactus | Colorado, New Mexico |
| Kodachrome Bladderpod | Utah |
| Kuenzler Hedgehog Cactus | New Mexico |
| Lake County Stonecrop | California |
| Lakela's Mint | Florida |
| Lancepod (2) | Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama |
| Large-flowered Fiddleneck | California |
| Large-fruited Sand-verbena | Texas |
| Lennea viridiflora | Mexico |
| Lepidium spp. (1) | Ecuador, Hawaii, Utah |
| Leucaena spp. (5) | Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico |
| Licaria spp. (1) | Cuba, Mexico |
| Lidflower (4) | Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Peru, Puerto Rico |
| Living Rock Cactus | Mexico |
| Living Stone Cactus | Mexico |
| Llume Palm | Puerto Rico |
| Loch Lomond Coyote Thistle | California |
| Logwood (1) | Colombia, Hawaii, India, Jamaica, New Caledonia, Philippines, Puerto Rico |
| Lompoc Yerba Santa | California |
| Longleaf Pine | Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia |
| Longspurred Mint | Florida |
| Luquillo Mountain Babyboot Orchid | Puerto Rico |
| Lyon's Pentachaeta | California |
| Lyonia spp. (1) | Cuba, Puerto Rico |
| Magnolia (4) | Bolivia, China, Colombia, Cuba, India, Mexico, Myanmar, Panama, Taiwan |
| Maiden Fern (3) | Ecuador, Puerto Rico |
| Mammillaria spp. (24) | Mexico |
| Mancos Milk-vetch | Colorado, New Mexico |
| Manilkara Tree (1) | Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Haiti, Indonesia, Jamaica, Papua New Guinea, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Venezuela |
| Marsh Earwort | Greenland |
| Martinez Spruce | Mexico |
| Matudaea trinervia | Mexico |
| Maxwell's Girdlepod | Puerto Rico |
| Maytenus spp. (4) | Ecuador, Ethiopia, Honduras, Jamaica, Malaysia, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Thailand, Yemen |
| Menzies' Wallflower | California |
| Metcalf Canyon Jewelflower | California |
| Mexican Flannelbush | California, Mexico |
| Mexican Pistachio | Mexico |
| Michigan Monkey-flower | Michigan |
| Milkwood (1) | Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Cuba, Indian Ocean (Mauritius - Reunion Island), Indonesia, Jamaica, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Puerto Rico |
| Milkwort (2) | Ecuador, Greece, Italy, United States (Florida), Yemen |
| Minnesota Dwarf Trout Lily | Minnesota |
| Monte Guilarte Hollyfern | Puerto Rico |
| Monterey Clover | California |
| Morefield's Leather Flower | Alabama |
| Myrcia spp. (1) | Brazil, Ecuador, Jamaica, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico |
| Napa Bluegrass | California |
| Navasota Ladies'-tresses | Texas |
| Nectandra spp. (4) | Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela |
| Nelson's Pinyon | Mexico |
| Nipomo Mesa Lupine | California |
| North Park Phacelia | Colorado |
| Northeastern Bulrush | Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia |
| Ocotea spp. (1) | Africa, Central America, Mexico, South America |
| Okeechobee Gourd | Florida |
| Orcutt's Spineflower | California |
| Oregon Checker-mallow | California |
| Oreopanax spp. (4) | Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru |
| Osterhout Milkvetch | Colorado |
| Otay Mesa-mint | California, Mexico (Baja California) |
| Ouratea spp. (1) | Colombia, Costa Rica, Ghana, Jamaica, Kenya, Liberia, Mexico, Panama, Sao Tome and Principe, Tanzania |
| Palo de nigua | Puerto Rico |
| Palo de rosa | Puerto Rico |
| Peebles Navajo Cactus | Arizona |
| Pelos del diablo | Puerto Rico |
| Penland Beardtongue | Colorado |
| Persea spp. (3) | Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Suriname |
| Persistent Trillium | Georgia, South Carolina |
| Peter's Mountain Mallow | Virginia |
| Pilosocereus spp. (1) | Brazil, Florida |
| Pitkin Marsh Lily | California |
| Platanthera spp. (1) | Canada, China, Hawaii, United States |
| Podocarpus spp. (1) | Africa, Asia, Australia, Central America, North America, Oceanic, South America |
| Pondberry | Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina |
| Populus spp. (1) | Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, North America (Mexico) |
| Prickly Pear (4) | California, Ecuador, Mexico |
| Puerto Rico Helmet Orchid | Puerto Rico |
| Quillwort (3) | China, Ecuador, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Taiwan |
| Radiator Plant (1) | Cameroon, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Puerto Rico |
| Recchia simplicifolia | Mexico |
| Relict Trillium | Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina |
| Rhododendron spp. (1) | China, Florida, India, Indonesia, Taiwan |
| Rinorea spp. (1) | Brazil, Cameroon, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Mexico, Panama, Sao Tome and Principe, Venezuela |
| Roan Mountain Bluet | North Carolina, Tennessee |
| Robust Spineflower | California |
| Rock Gnome Lichen | North Carolina, Tennessee |
| Rondeletia spp. (1) | Jamaica, Mexico, Peru |
| Rosewood (2) | Brazil, Cambodia, Cameroon, China, Ghana, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Laos, Madagascar, Mexico, Myanmar, Nepal, Peru, Tanzania, Thailand, Vietnam |
| Roystonea spp. (1) | Cuba, Mexico |
| Rugel's Pawpaw | Florida |
| Running Buffalo Clover | Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, West Virginia |
| Ruth's Golden Aster | Tennessee |
| Salt Marsh Bird's-beak | California, Mexico (Baja California) |
| San Clemente Island Indian Paintbrush | California |
| San Diego Ambrosia | California, Mexico |
| San Diego Button-celery | California |
| San Diego Mesa-mint | California |
| San Joaquin Wooly-threads | California |
| San Mateo Woolly Sunflower | California |
| San Rafael Cactus | Utah |
| Sandlace | Florida |
| Sandplain Gerardia | Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island |
| Sandwort (2) | California, Ecuador, Kentucky, Spain, Tennessee |
| Santa Ana River Woolly-star | California |
| Santa Clara Valley Dudleya | California |
| Santa Cruz Cypress | California |
| Santa Cruz Island Rock-cress | California |
| Sapium spp. (1) | Argentina, Bolivia, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Philippines, Tanzania |
| Schweinitz's Sunflower | North Carolina, South Carolina |
| Scrub Mint | Florida |
| Sebastopol Meadowfoam | California |
| Sentry Milk-vetch | Arizona |
| Shale Barren Rock-cress | Virginia, West Virginia |
| Short's Goldenrod | Kentucky |
| Short-leaved Rosemary | Florida |
| Showy Indian Clover | California |
| Showy Stickseed | Washington |
| Silene spp. (1) | Cameroon, Florida, Georgia (USA), Hawaii, Italy, Spain |
| Slender Rush-pea | Texas |
| Slender-horned Spineflower | California |
| Slender-petaled Mustard | California |
| Small-anthered Bittercress | North Carolina, Virginia |
| Smooth Coneflower | Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia |
| Snakeroot | Florida |
| Soft Bird's-Beak | California |
| Soft-leaved Indian Paintbrush | California |
| Solanum spp. (1) | Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Hawaii, Panama, Puerto Rico |
| Sonoma Spineflower | California |
| Sonoma Sunshine | California |
| South Texas Ambrosia | Texas |
| Spreading Avens | North Carolina, Tennessee |
| Spring Creek Bladderpod | Tennessee |
| St. John's-wort (1) | Ecuador, Ethiopia, Florida, Yemen |
| Star Cactus | Mexico, Texas |
| Styrax spp. (2) | Malaysia, Peru, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Suriname, Texas, Vietnam |
| Symplocos spp. (2) | China, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Sri Lanka, Taiwan |
| Tectaria estremerana | Puerto Rico |
| Tennessee Purple Coneflower | Tennessee |
| Tennessee Yellow-eyed Grass | Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee |
| Terlingua Creek Cat's-eye | Texas |
| Ternstroemia spp. (2) | Cameroon, Ecuador, Honduras, Indonesia, Jamaica, Malawi, Malaysia, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Tanzania |
| Texas Ayenia | Mexico, Texas |
| Texas Poppy-mallow | Texas |
| Texas Prairie Dawn-flower | Texas |
| Texas Wild-rice | Texas |
| Tiburon Jewelflower | California |
| Tiburon Paintbrush | California |
| Todsen's Pennyroyal | New Mexico |
| Trichilia spp. (1) | Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Cuba, Ecuador, Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Tanzania, Venezuela |
| Tropical Lilythorn | Puerto Rico |
| Turtlefat | Puerto Rico |
| Umbrella Tree (1) | Africa, Asia, Australia, Central America, Indonesia, North America, Oceanic, South America |
| Ventura Marsh Milk-vetch | California |
| Venus Fly Trap | North Carolina, South Carolina |
| Vernonia spp. (1) | Cameroon, Ecuador, Indonesia, Nigeria, Puerto Rico, Yemen |
| Vine Hill Clarkia | California |
| Vitex spp. (2) | Cameroon, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Panama, Philippines, Tanzania, Vietnam |
| Walker's Manihot | Mexico, Texas |
| Water-willow (1) | Cameroon, Ecuador, Florida, Nigeria, Yemen |
| West Indian Walnut | Puerto Rico |
| Western Lily | California, Oregon |
| White Bladderpod | Texas |
| White Irisette | North Carolina |
| Wide-leaf Warea | Florida |
| Willow (1) | China, Spain, Taiwan, United States (FL, GA) |
| Wireweed | Florida |
| Woolly Meadowfoam | California |
| Wright Fishhook Cactus | Utah |
| Yadon's Piperia | California |
| Yellow Larkspur | California |
| Yreka Phlox | California |
| Zamia spp. (19) | Central America, North America, South America |
| Zanthoxylum spp. (4) | Africa, Central America, Hawaii, North America, South America |
| Zapata Bladderpod | Texas |
| Ziziphus spp. (1) | Kenya, Philippines, Tanzania, United States (Florida) |
**What plants are listed here?:
The North America section of this site lists the folllowing plants appearing on select endangered species lists:- Plants that dwell in or migrate to any part of the North American continent, except Hawaii, which has its own section.
- Plants of Greenland and adjacent Atlantic islands.
- Plants of the Mexican Holarctic.
- Plants of the Gulf of Maine.
Disclaimer:
This list combines species from several endangered species lists. Using the total
count of species found on this site as an official count of endangered species of the world is not recommended. For more
information on what creatures are listed on this site, please visit our About EEC page.
