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Italy

Europe · Southern Europe

Total Species
1910
Threatened
73
CR + EN + VU
Population
60461828
Area
301336 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 16
Endangered 25
Vulnerable 32
Near Threatened 61
Least Concern 471
Data Deficient 22
Not Evaluated 1156
Extinct 20

Species by Taxonomic Group

Animalia 955
Plantae 918
Chromista 20
Fungi 15
Bacteria 2

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Italy

Chinese windmill palm

Trachycarpus fortunei

Not Evaluated

Canary Island Date Palm

Phoenix canariensis

Least Concern

Beetberry

Blitum capitatum

Not Evaluated

smooth heliotrope

Heliotropium curassavicum

Not Evaluated

Balloon vine

Cardiospermum grandiflorum

Not Evaluated

Snow-in-summer

Cerastium biebersteinii

Not Evaluated

Wand mullein

Verbascum virgatum

Not Evaluated

Sweet-amber

Hypericum androsaemum

Not Evaluated

Trailing Bellflower

Campanula poscharskyana

Not Evaluated

Tussock bellflower

Campanula carpatica

Not Evaluated

American Fox Sedge

Carex vulpinoidea

Least Concern

Arrow bamboo

Pseudosasa japonica

Not Evaluated

Siberian melicgrass

Melica altissima

Not Evaluated

Columbia Water-Meal

Wolffia columbiana

Least Concern

Plume albizia

Paraserianthes lophantha

Least Concern

Pokeweed

Phytolacca dioica

Not Evaluated

Canary Islands Pine

Pinus canariensis

Least Concern

persimmon

Diospyros kaki

Least Concern

candelabra aloe

Aloe arborescens

Least Concern

Chinese privet

Ligustrum sinense

Not Evaluated

Butterweed

Erigeron canadensis

Not Evaluated

Field burrweed

Soliva sessilis

Not Evaluated

Iberian knapweed

Centaurea iberica

Not Evaluated

Tarweed fiddleneck

Amsinckia lycopsoides

Least Concern

Australian cheesewood

Pittosporum undulatum

Not Evaluated

Red Horse-chestnut

Aesculus carnea

Not Evaluated

Heath Star Moss

Campylopus introflexus

Not Evaluated

Turkish baby's-breath

Gypsophila pilosa

Not Evaluated

Blue-Eyed Grass

Sisyrinchium angustifolium

Not Evaluated

Matted sandmat

Euphorbia serpens

Not Evaluated

Prostrate sandmat

Euphorbia prostrata

Not Evaluated

Manila grass

Zoysia matrella

Not Evaluated

Valley redstem

Ammannia coccinea

Least Concern

Turkey tangle fogfruit

Phyla nodiflora

Least Concern

River sheoak

Casuarina cunninghamiana

Least Concern

Weed silene

Silene conoidea

Not Evaluated

Bonnemaison'S Hook Weed

Bonnemaisonia hamifera

Not Evaluated

Silverleaf cotoneaster

Cotoneaster pannosus

Not Evaluated

Canary Island Dragon Tree

Dracaena draco

Endangered

Java waterdropwort

Oenanthe javanica

Not Evaluated

Orange Coneflower

Rudbeckia fulgida

Not Evaluated

lowland rotala

Rotala ramosior

Not Evaluated

Kiss me quick

Portulaca pilosa

Not Evaluated

Spider plant

Chlorophytum comosum

Not Evaluated

Common asparagus fern

Asparagus setaceus

Not Evaluated

Chinese crab apple

Malus hupehensis

Least Concern

Reeves' meadowsweet

Spiraea cantoniensis

Least Concern

Urban spurge

Euphorbia agraria

Not Evaluated

Balkan Spurge

Euphorbia oblongata

Not Evaluated

Woollyjoint pricklypear

Opuntia tomentosa

Least Concern

Water-Lily

Nymphaea marliacea

Not Evaluated

Nightshade

Solanum linnaeanum

Least Concern

Asian copperleaf

Acalypha australis

Not Evaluated

Hedge Cactus

Cereus hildmannianus

Least Concern

Cactus-apple

Opuntia engelmannii

Least Concern

dense flat sedge

Cyperus congestus

Not Evaluated

biennial beeblossom

Oenothera gaura

Not Evaluated

Ashy pipewort

Eriocaulon cinereum

Least Concern

cane cactus

Austrocylindropuntia cylindrica

Near Threatened

Japanese Hop

Humulus scandens

Not Evaluated

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