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Plants
Common Name	Range ***
Acritodon nephophilus	Mexico
Adiantum spp.	Puerto Rico
Aegiphila spp. (3)	Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama
Alabama Canebrake Pitcher-plant	Alabama
Alabama Leather Flower	Alabama
Albizia spp.	Mexico
Aleutian Shield Fern	Alaska
Alfaroa spp.	Mexico
Allenanthus hondurensis	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	Central and South America, Florida
Andira galeottiana	Mexico
Antioch Dunes Evening-primrose	California
Antirhea spp. (3)	Mexico, Puerto Rico
Apalachicola Rosemary	Florida
Applegate's Milk-vetch	Oregon
Ariocarpus bravoanus	Mexico
Arizona Cliff-rose	Arizona
Arizona Hedgehog Cactus	Arizona
Artichoke Cactus	Mexico
Ashy Dogweed	Texas
Autumn Buttercup	Utah
Baker's Cypress	California, Oregon
Baker's Larkspur	California
Banara spp.	Puerto Rico
Barneby Reed-mustard	Utah
Beach Jacquemontia	Florida
Beach Layia	California
Beautiful Goetzea	Puerto Rico
Beautiful Pawpaw	Florida
Bedstraw (2)	California
Ben Lomond Spineflower	California
Ben Lomond Wallflower	California
Berberis spp. (2)	California
Beruquillo	Puerto Rico
Betula spp.	Virginia
Big Leaf Mahogany	Central America, North America, South America
Big-cone Pinyon	Mexico
Bitterwood	Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Venezuela
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
Bristlecone Pine	California, Nevada, Utah
Britton's Beargrass	Florida
Brooksville Bellflower	Florida
Brunfelsia spp.	Puerto Rico
Bully Tree (5)	Guatemala, Mexico
Bunched Arrowhead	North Carolina, South Carolina
Burke's Goldfields	California
Buxus spp.	Puerto Rico
California Jewelflower	California
California Orcutt Grass	California
California Seablite	California
California Taraxacum	California
Calistoga Allocarya	California
Cana Gorda Girdlepod	Puerto Rico, Saba
Canby's Dropwort	Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina
Canelo Hills Ladies'-tresses	Arizona
Capa rosa	Puerto Rico
Caper Shrub	Mexico
Carex spp. (2)	California, North Carolina
Carter's Mustard	Florida
Catalina Island Mountain-Mahogany	California
Celtis spp.	Mexico, Texas
Central American Walnut	Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua
Ceratozamia spp. (17)	Belize, Guatemala, Mexico
Chase's Threeawn	Puerto Rico
Chiangiodendron mexicanum	Mexico
Chihuahua Spruce	Mexico
Chrysophyllum spp.	Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands
Chupacallos	Puerto Rico
Cigar-box Wood	Central America, North America, South America
Clara Hunt's Milk-vetch	California
Clay Phacelia	Utah
Clay-loving Wild-buckwheat	Colorado
Clover Lupine	California
Coachella Valley Milk-vetch	California
Coast Redwood	California, Oregon
Coastal Dunes Milk-vetch	California
Cobana Negra	Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands
Coccoloba spp. (2)	Mexico, Puerto Rico
Commoner Lignum Vitae	Central and South America, Puerto Rico, Thailand, Virgin Islands (British and US)
Contra Costa Goldfields	California
Contra Costa Wallflower	California
Cook's Lomatium	Oregon
Cooley's Meadowrue	Florida, North Carolina
Cordia spp. (3)	Central America, North America
Cornus spp.	Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama
Coryphantha spp. (8)	Arizona, Mexico, New Mexico, Texas
Coussarea spp.	Mexico
Coyote Ceanothus	California
Crenulate Lead-plant	Florida
Crotalaria spp.	Florida
Cushenbury Milk-vetch	California
Cushenbury Oxytheca	California
Cushion Buckwheat	California, Nevada
Cyathea spp.	Puerto Rico
Cymbopetalum spp.	Mexico
Dahlia Cactus	Mexico
Dalea spp.	Alabama, Illinois, Tennessee
Daphnopsis spp.	Puerto Rico
Davis' Green Pitaya	Texas
Decazyx spp.	Honduras, Mexico
Del Mar Manzanita	California, Mexico
Deltoid Spurge	Florida
Dendropanax spp.	Honduras, Mexico
Dioon spp. (10)	Mexico
Diospyros spp. (2)	Mexico
Donrichard Moss	Texas
Dwarf Bear-poppy	Utah
Elaeagia spp.	Mexico
Erigeron spp.	Oregon
Erythrina spp. (2)	Mexico, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands
Eschweilera spp.	Mexico
Escobaria aguirreana	Mexico
Etonia Rosemary	Florida
Eugenia spp. (7)	Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico
Eureka Dune Grass	California
Eureka Valley Evening-primrose	California
Few-flowered Navarretia	California
Fig Tree	Mexico
Flordia Torreya	Florida, Georgia
Florida Golden Aster	Florida
Florida Perforate Cladonia	Florida
Florida Yew	Florida
Fountain Thistle	California
Four-petal Pawpaw	Florida
Fragrant Prickly-apple	Florida
Franklin Tree	Georgia
Fraser Fir	North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
Fringe Tree	Florida
Frye's Limbella Moss	Oregon
Furbish Lousewort	Canada (New Brunswick), Maine
Furry Hesper Palm	Mexico
Gambel's Watercress	California
Garrett's Mint	Florida
Gaussia gomez-pompae	Mexico
Gavilan Blanco	Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama
Gaviota Tarplant	California
Gentian Pinkroot	Alabama, Florida
Gentner's Fritillary	Oregon
Geothallus tuberosus	California
Giant Sequoia	United States (California)
Gilia	California
Ginoria nudiflora	Mexico
Golden Barrel	Mexico
Gowen Cypress	California
Green Pitcher-plant	Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee
Greene's Tuctoria	California
Gregg's Pine	Mexico
Guadalupe Island Cypress	California, Mexico
Guadalupe Palm	Mexico
Guatemalan Fir	El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico
Guthrie's Ground-plum	Tennessee
Hairy Orcutt Grass	California
Hairy Rattleweed	Georgia
Hampea spp. (2)	Mexico
Harper's Beauty	Florida
Harperella	Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia
Hartweg's Golden Sunburst	California
Hedyosmum spp.	Guatemala, Mexico
Henriettea spp.	Puerto Rico
Hickel's Fir	Mexico
Hickman's Potentilla	California
Higuero de sierra	Puerto Rico
Hoffmann's Rock-cress	California
Holly (4)	Guatemala, Mexico, Puerto Rico
Holmgren Milk-vetch	Arizona, Utah
Holy Ghost Ipomopsis	New Mexico
Holywood Lignum Vitae	Central and South America, Florida, Mexico, Puerto Rico
Honduras Mahogany	Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama
Howell's Spineflower	California
Huachuca Water-umbel	Arizona, Mexico
Hyperbaena spp.	Mexico
Indian Knob Mountain Balm	California
Inga spp. (6)	Mexico
Ione Buckwheat	California
Island Malacothrix	California
Island Phacelia	California
Jaffueliobryum arsenei	Mexico
Jamaican Broom	Puerto Rico
Jatropha spp. (2)	Mexico
Jesup's Milk-vetch	New Hampshire, Vermont
Johnston's Frankenia	Mexico (Nuevo Leon), Texas
Juniper (6)	Guatemala, Mexico
Kansas Aschisma Moss	Kansas
Kearney's Blue-star	Arizona
Keck's Checker-mallow	California
Kern Mallow	California
Kneeland Prairie Penny-cress	California
Knowlton Cactus	Colorado, New Mexico
Kodachrome Bladderpod	Utah
Kuenzler Hedgehog Cactus	New Mexico
La Graciosa Thistle	California
Lake County Stonecrop	California
Lakela's Mint	Florida
Lancepod (2)	Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua
Lane Mountain Milk-vetch	California
Large-flowered Fiddleneck	California
Large-fruited Sand-verbena	Texas
Lennea viridiflora	Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama
Lepidium spp.	Utah
Leucaena spp. (5)	Mexico
Licaria spp.	Mexico
Lidflower (4)	British Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands
Little Aguja Creek Pondweed	Texas
Living Rock Cactus	Mexico
Living Stone Cactus	Mexico
Llume Palm	Puerto Rico
Loch Lomond Coyote Thistle	California
Logwood	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.	Puerto Rico
Magnolia (4)	Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico
Maiden Fern (3)	Puerto Rico
Malheur Wire-lettuce	Oregon
Mammillaria spp. (24)	Mexico
Mancos Milk-vetch	Colorado, New Mexico
Manilkara Tree	Puerto Rico
Many-flowered Navarretia	California
Mappia racemosa	Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Jamaica, Panama, Puerto Rico
Marsh Earwort	Austria, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greenland, Korea, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Martinez Spruce	Mexico
Matudaea trinervia	Mexico
Maxwell's Girdlepod	Puerto Rico
Maya Palm	Belize, Guatemala, Mexico
Maytenus spp. (4)	Mexico, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands (British and US)
McDonald's Rock-cress	California
Menzies' Wallflower	California
Metcalf Canyon Jewelflower	California
Mexican Flannelbush	California, Mexico
Mexican Pistachio	Guatemala, Mexico
Michigan Monkey-flower	Michigan
Milkwood	Puerto Rico
Milkwort (2)	United States (Florida)
Minnesota Dwarf Trout Lily	Minnesota
Monte Guilarte Hollyfern	Puerto Rico
Monterey Clover	California
Monterey Cypress	California
Morefield's Leather Flower	Alabama
Mountain Sweet Pitcher-plant	North Carolina, South Carolina
Munz's Onion	California
Myrcia spp.	Puerto Rico
Napa Bluegrass	California
Navasota Ladies'-tresses	Texas
Nectandra spp. (4)	Antigua, Barbuda, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, West Indies
Nichol's Turk's Head Cactus	Arizona
Nipomo Mesa Lupine	California
North Park Phacelia	Colorado
Northeastern Bulrush	Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia
Northern California Black Walnut	California
Ocotea spp.	Mexico
Okeechobee Gourd	Florida
Orcutt's Spineflower	California
Oregon Checker-mallow	California
Oreopanax spp. (4)	Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico
Osterhout Milk-vetch	Colorado
Otay Mesa-mint	California, Mexico (Baja California)
Ouratea spp.	Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico
Ozobryum ogalalense	Kansas
Palmate-bracted Bird's-beak	California
Palo de nigua	Puerto Rico
Palo de rosa	Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico
Pedate Checker-mallow	California
Peebles Navajo Cactus	Arizona
Pelos del diablo	Puerto Rico
Penland Beardtongue	Colorado
Pennell's Bird's-beak	California
Persea spp. (3)	Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama
Persistent Trillium	Georgia, South Carolina
Peter's Mountain Mallow	Virginia
Peyote	Mexico
Pilosocereus spp.	Cuba, Florida
Pine Hill Ceanothus	California
Pine Hill Flannelbush	California
Pinus nelsoni	Mexico
Pinus tecunumanii	Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama
Pismo Clarkia	California
Pitkin Marsh Lily	California
Platanthera spp.	Canada, United States
Podocarpus spp.	Central America, North America
Pondberry	Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina
Populus spp.	North America (Mexico)
Port Orford Cedar	California, Oregon
Potosi Pinyon	Mexico
Pouteria Tree (4)	Central America, North America
Presidio Clarkia	California
Presidio Manzanita	California
Prickly Pear (4)	California, Mexico
Prunus spp.	North America
Psidium spp.	Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico Helmet Orchid	Puerto Rico
Quercus spp. (32)	Alabama, Arkansas, Belize, California, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Florida, Georgia, Guatemala, Honduras, Louisiana, Mexico, Mississippi, Nicaragua, Oklahoma, Panama, South Carolina, Texas
Quillwort (3)	Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina
Radiator Plant	Puerto Rico
Recchia simplicifolia	Mexico
Relict Trillium	Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina
Rhododendron spp.	Florida
Rhus spp.	United States (GA, NC, SC, VA)
Rinorea spp.	Mexico
Roan Mountain Bluet	North Carolina, Tennessee
Robinsonella spp. (3)	Mexico
Robust Spineflower	California
Rock Gnome Lichen	North Carolina, Tennessee
Rondeletia spp.	Mexico
Rosewood (2)	Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama
Rough Popcornflower	Oregon
Royal Palmetto	Mexico
Roystonea spp.	Honduras, Mexico
Rugel's Pawpaw	Florida
Running Buffalo Clover	Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, West Virginia
Ruth's Golden Aster	Tennessee
Rzedowski's Pine	Mexico
Sabal gretheriae	Mexico
Sacramento Orcutt Grass	California
Sacramento Prickly Poppy	New Mexico
Salix spp.	United States (FL, GA)
Salt Marsh Bird's-beak	California, Mexico (Baja California)
San Bernardino Bluegrass	California
San Bernardino Mountains Bladderpod	California
San Clemente Island Broom	California
San Clemente Island Bush-mallow	California
San Clemente Island Indian Paintbrush	California
San Clemente Island Larkspur	California
San Clemente Island Woodland-star	California
San Diego Ambrosia	California, Mexico
San Diego Button-celery	California
San Diego Mesa-mint	California
San Francisco Lessingia	California
San Jacinto Valley Crownscale	California
San Joaquin Wooly-threads	California
San Mateo Thornmint	California
San Mateo Woolly Sunflower	California
San Rafael Cactus	Utah
Sandlace	Florida
Sandplain Gerardia	Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island
Sandwort (2)	California, Kentucky, Tennessee
Santa Ana River Woolly-star	California
Santa Barbara Island Liveforever	California
Santa Catalina Island Manzanita	California
Santa Clara Valley Dudleya	California
Santa Cruz Cypress	California
Santa Cruz Island Bush-mallow	California
Santa Cruz Island Fringepod	California
Santa Cruz Island Malacothrix	California
Santa Cruz Island Rock-cress	California
Santa Rosa Island Manzanita	California
Santa Rosa Island Pine	California
Sapium spp.	Mexico
Saurauia spp. (5)	Guatemala, Mexico
Schoepfia spp.	Puerto Rico
Schweinitz's Sunflower	North Carolina, South Carolina
Scotts Valley Polygonum	California
Scrub Blazingstar	Florida
Scrub Lupine	Florida
Scrub Mint	Florida
Sebastopol Meadowfoam	California
Sebucan (2)	British Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico
Sentry Milk-vetch	Arizona
Shale Barren Rock-cress	Virginia, West Virginia
Shivwits Milk-vetch	Utah
Short's Goldenrod	Kentucky
Short-leaved Rosemary	Florida
Showy Indian Clover	California
Showy Stickseed	Washington
Shrubby Reed-mustard	Utah
Silene spp.	Florida, Georgia (USA)
Sinaloan Hesper Palm	Mexico
Slender Rush-pea	Texas
Slender-horned Spineflower	California
Slender-petaled Mustard	California
Small's Milkpea	Florida
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 Paintbrush	California
Solano Grass	California
Solanum spp.	Puerto Rico
Sonoma Alopecurus	California
Sonoma Spineflower	California
Sonoma Sunshine	California
Sonora Palmetto	Mexico
South Texas Ambrosia	Texas
Sphaerocarpos drewei	California
Spreading Avens	North Carolina, Tennessee
Spring Creek Bladderpod	Tennessee
St. John's-wort	Florida
Star Cactus	Mexico, Texas
Stebbins' Morning-glory	California
Styrax spp. (2)	Puerto Rico, Texas
Suisun Thistle	California
Symplocos spp. (2)	Mexico
Takakia ceratophylla	China, India, Nepal, United States (Aleutian Islands)
Tamaulipas Living Rock Cactus	Mexico
Tapirira spp.	Mexico
Tectaria estremerana	Puerto Rico
Tennessee Purple Coneflower	Tennessee
Tennessee Yellow-eyed Grass	Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee
Terlingua Creek Cat's-eye	Texas
Ternstroemia spp. (2)	Puerto Rico
Texas Ayenia	Mexico, Texas
Texas Poppy-mallow	Texas
Texas Prairie Dawn-flower	Texas
Texas Trailing Phlox	Texas
Texas Wild-rice	Texas
Thelocactus hastifer	Mexico
Tiburon Jewelflower	California
Tiburon Paintbrush	California
Ticodendron incognitum	Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama
Tobusch Fishhook Cactus	Texas
Todsen's Pennyroyal	New Mexico
Tonguefern	Puerto Rico
Trichilia spp.	Puerto Rico
Triple-ribbed Milk-vetch	California
Tropical Lilythorn	Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands
Turbinicarpus spp. (22)	Mexico
Turtlefat	Puerto Rico
Umbrella Tree	Central America, North America
Ventura Marsh Milk-vetch	California
Venus Fly Trap	North Carolina, South Carolina
Vernonia spp.	Puerto Rico
Vine Hill Clarkia	California
Vitex spp. (2)	Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua
Walker's Manioc	Mexico, Texas
Water-willow	Florida
West Indian Walnut	Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico
Western Lily	California, Oregon
White Bladderpod	Texas
White Irisette	North Carolina
White Rock Palm	Guatemala, Mexico
White Topped Pitcher Plant	Alabama, Florida, Missouri
White-rayed Pentachaeta	California
Whitebark Pine	Canada, United States
Wide-leaf Warea	Florida
Willowy Monardella	California, Mexico
Wimmeria spp. (3)	Mexico
Wireweed	Florida
Woolly Meadowfoam	California
Wright Fishhook Cactus	Utah
Xolocotzia asperifolia	Honduras, Mexico
Yadon's Piperia	California
Yellow Larkspur	California
Yreka Phlox	California
Zamia spp. (19)	Central America, North America
Zanthoxylum spp. (4)	Central America, North America, Oceanic, South America
Zapata Bladderpod	Texas
Ziziphus spp.	United States (Florida)
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**Hawaiian endangered species are listed separately.

***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.

In some cases, the creatures listed in this section may also be found on other continents or in other areas, which is why you may see additional areas noted in the range column.

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