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Ireland

Europe · Northern Europe

Total Species
1335
Threatened
76
CR + EN + VU
Population
4937796
Area
70273 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 21
Endangered 25
Vulnerable 30
Near Threatened 52
Least Concern 378
Data Deficient 10
Not Evaluated 800
Extinct 14

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 842
Animalia 464
Fungi 14
Chromista 14
Bacteria 1

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Ireland

Canada Bluegrass

Poa compressa

Least Concern

Eurasian Woodland Bluegrass

Poa nemoralis

Least Concern

Fowl Bluegrass

Poa palustris

Least Concern

Broadleaf bluegrass

Poa chaixii

Near Threatened

Potato tuber moth

Phthorimaea operculella

Not Evaluated

Slender soft brome

Bromus lepidus

Not Evaluated

Bronco Grass

Bromus tectorum

Least Concern

Foxtail barley

Hordeum jubatum

Not Evaluated

Rye brome

Bromus secalinus

Least Concern

Mouse barley

Hordeum murinum

Least Concern

Common barley

Hordeum vulgare

Not Evaluated

Black Bent

Agrostis gigantea

Least Concern

Hair Grass

Agrostis scabra

Not Evaluated

Corn

Zea mays

Not Evaluated

Black-grass

Alopecurus myosuroides

Least Concern

Loose Silky-bent

Apera spica-venti

Least Concern

Variousleaf fescue

Festuca heterophylla

Not Evaluated

Burweed

Xanthium strumarium

Not Evaluated

Narrowleaf hawksbeard

Crepis tectorum

Near Threatened

Rough Hawk's-beard

Crepis biennis

Near Threatened

Bristly Hawk'S-Beard

Crepis setosa

Not Evaluated

cabbage thistle

Cirsium oleraceum

Near Threatened

Absinth Sagewort

Artemisia absinthium

Not Evaluated

Lad'S Love

Artemisia abrotanum

Not Evaluated

Artemisia

Artemisia vulgaris

Least Concern

Dumb-Nettle

Galinsoga parviflora

Not Evaluated

Common Globe-Thistle

Echinops sphaerocephalus

Not Evaluated

Blue Globe Thistle

Echinops bannaticus

Not Evaluated

Yellow Oxeye

Telekia speciosa

Not Evaluated

Annual Cosmos

Cosmos bipinnatus

Not Evaluated

cobweb spiders

Steatoda grossa

Least Concern

Brown Bryozoan

Bugula neritina

Not Evaluated

pale spruce gall adelgid

Adelges laricis

Not Evaluated

black rat

Rattus rattus

Extinct

house mouse

Mus musculus

Least Concern

European polecat

Mustela putorius

Vulnerable

thick emarginula

Emarginula crassa

Least Concern

mouflon

Ovis aries

Not Evaluated

House cricket

Acheta domesticus

Not Evaluated

Orange-banded arion

Arion fasciatus

Least Concern

Ermine moth

Ocnerostoma piniariella

Least Concern

Rust pine borer

Arhopalus rusticus

Least Concern

Cryptic Wood White

Leptidea juvernica

Least Concern

Sowerby's keeled slug

Tandonia sowerbyi

Data Deficient

Elecampane

Inula helenium

Not Evaluated

Pot marigold

Calendula officinalis

Not Evaluated

Lesser mealworm

Alphitobius diaperinus

Least Concern

Pear leaf blister moth

Leucoptera malifoliella

Least Concern

Common Salsify

Tragopogon porrifolius

Not Evaluated

Common brassbuttons

Cotula coronopifolia

Not Evaluated

Lined flat bark beetle

Cryptolestes ferrugineus

Least Concern

Common Feverfew

Tanacetum parthenium

Least Concern

Disc Mayweed

Matricaria discoidea

Not Evaluated

Dahlia

Dahlia pinnata

Not Evaluated

Blue Chamomile

Matricaria chamomilla

Least Concern

Leopard's-bane

Doronicum pardalianches

Not Evaluated

Corndaisy

Glebionis segetum

Least Concern

Devil'S Paintbrush

Pilosella aurantiaca

Least Concern

Common Chamomile

Anthemis arvensis

Vulnerable

Common Tansy

Tanacetum vulgare

Least Concern

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