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United States

North America · Northern America

Total Species
11292
Threatened
794
CR + EN + VU
Population
331,002,647
Area
9,833,517 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 159
Endangered 267
Vulnerable 368
Near Threatened 429
Least Concern 4219
Data Deficient 187
Not Evaluated 5464
Extinct in the Wild 1
Extinct 150

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 5386
Animalia 3833
Fungi 1835
Protozoa 86
Bacteria 78
Chromista 74

Featured Species

All Species in United States

Winter Oysterling

Panellus ringens

Least Concern

Winter Polypore

Lentinus brumalis

Least Concern

Winter Russula

Russula cremoricolor

Not Evaluated

Winter Stalk Puffball

Tulostoma brumale

Endangered

Winter Wren

Troglodytes hiemalis

Least Concern

wiry fern moss

Abietinella abietina

Vulnerable

Wisconsin weeping willow

Salix pendulina

Not Evaluated

Witches' Whiskers Lichen

Usnea florida

Vulnerable

Witch'S Hair

Alectoria sarmentosa

Near Threatened

Wolf'S Milk

Lycogala epidendrum

Not Evaluated

Woman's tongue

Albizia lebbeck

Not Evaluated

Wood Bolete

Buchwaldoboletus lignicola

Endangered

wood-boring amphipod

Chelura terebrans

Data Deficient

Wood-boring beetle

Mesocoelopus collaris

Not Evaluated

Wood-boring weevil

Pselactus spadix

Near Threatened

Wood decay

Crustodontia chrysocreas

Not Evaluated

Wood Dot Lichen

Micarea melaena

Data Deficient

Wood Duck

Aix sponsa

Not Evaluated

Wood Frog

Lithobates sylvaticus

Least Concern

Wood gnat

Sylvicola cinctus

Least Concern

Wood Hedgehog

Hydnum repandum

Least Concern

Wood Horsetail

Equisetum sylvaticum

Near Threatened

Woodland Beakrush

Scirpus expansus

Least Concern

Woodland blue worm

Octolasion cyaneum

Not Evaluated

Woodland false buttonweed

Spermacoce remota

Not Evaluated

Woodland germander

Teucrium scorodonia

Least Concern

Woodland Inkcap

Coprinellus deliquescens

Data Deficient

Woodland Inkcap

Coprinellus silvaticus

Least Concern

woodland jumping mouse

Napaeozapus insignis

Least Concern

Woodland passionflower

Passiflora morifolia

Not Evaluated

Woodland ragwort

Senecio sylvaticus

Least Concern

Woodland sage

Salvia sylvestris

Not Evaluated

woodland vole

Microtus pinetorum

Least Concern

Woodland white worm

Octolasion tyrtaeum

Not Evaluated

Wood Mulberry

Bertia moriformis

Least Concern

Wood Mushroom

Agaricus sylvicola

Least Concern

Wood Pink

Dianthus sylvestris

Not Evaluated

Wood Pinkgill

Entoloma rhodopolium

Least Concern

Woodrush flatsedge

Cyperus entrerianus

Data Deficient

wood rustwort

Nowellia curvifolia

Vulnerable

Wood sorrel

Oxalis triangularis

Not Evaluated

Wood Spark

Perrotia flammea

Least Concern

Woodsy Silk-Moss

Plagiothecium nemorale

Vulnerable

Wood Thrush

Hylocichla mustelina

Near Threatened

Woodwasp

Sirex noctilio

Vulnerable

Woody Fleabane

Dittrichia viscosa

Not Evaluated

Woody plant

Eucommia ulmoides

Vulnerable

Woolly aphids

Eriosoma ulmi

Not Evaluated

woolly apple aphid

Eriosoma lanigerum

Not Evaluated

woolly apple moss

Philonotis tomentella

Least Concern

Woolly bellflower

Campanula lanata

Data Deficient

Woolly Clover

Trifolium tomentosum

Not Evaluated

Woolly Foam

Stereocaulon tomentosum

Endangered

Woollyjoint pricklypear

Opuntia tomentosa

Least Concern

woolly liverwort

Trichocolea tomentella

Vulnerable

Woolly Panicgrass

Dichanthelium lanuginosum

Not Evaluated

Woolly Rosette

Cotylidia pannosa

Extinct

Woolly Tooth

Phellodon tomentosus

Vulnerable

Woolly Webcap

Cortinarius laniger

Vulnerable

Woolly Woodwart

Lasiosphaeria ovina

Least Concern

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