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United States

North America · Northern America

Total Species
11292
Threatened
786
CR + EN + VU
Population
331,002,647
Area
9,833,517 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 156
Endangered 264
Vulnerable 366
Near Threatened 425
Least Concern 4191
Data Deficient 189
Not Evaluated 5463
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

Bland Sweet Cicely

Osmorhiza claytonii

Not Evaluated

Blanket flower

Gaillardia grandiflora

Not Evaluated

Blasdell'S Laurentian Bladder Fern

Cystopteris laurentiana

Not Evaluated

Blazing Star

Liatris spicata

Not Evaluated

Bleeding Bonnet

Mycena sanguinolenta

Least Concern

Bleeding Conifer Crust

Stereum sanguinolentum

Least Concern

Bleeding Fairy Helmet

Mycena haematopus

Least Concern

Bleeding-Heart

Dicentra formosa

Not Evaluated

Bleeding Oak Crust

Stereum gausapatum

Least Concern

Blessed milkthistle

Silybum marianum

Not Evaluated

Blessed thistle

Centaurea benedicta

Not Evaluated

Blewit

Lepista nuda

Least Concern

Blindeyes

Papaver dubium

Least Concern

Blind's bryum

Bryum blindii

Near Threatened

Blister Buttercup

Ranunculus sceleratus

Least Concern

Blistered Cup

Peziza vesiculosa

Least Concern

Blistered Jelly Lichen

Collema nigrescens

Vulnerable

Blistered Jellyskin Lichen

Leptogium corticola

Not Evaluated

Blistered Rock Tripe

Umbilicaria hyperborea

Extinct

Blistered Toadskin Lichen

Lasallia pustulata

Least Concern

Blistered Woodwax

Hygrophorus pustulatus

Least Concern

Blister Flower

Ranunculus bulbosus

Vulnerable

Blisterwort

Ranunculus recurvatus

Data Deficient

Blond Field Ant

Lasius flavus

Least Concern

Blondin De Cuvier

Perimyotis subflavus

Vulnerable

Bloodflower

Asclepias curassavica

Least Concern

Blood Iris

Iris sanguinea

Not Evaluated

Blood Milkwort

Polygala sanguinea

Not Evaluated

Blood Ragweed

Ambrosia trifida

Not Evaluated

Blood red tassel flower

Calliandra haematocephala

Not Evaluated

Bloodred Webcap

Cortinarius sanguineus

Not Evaluated

Blood root

Justicia secunda

Not Evaluated

Bloodroot

Sanguinaria canadensis

Not Evaluated

Blood sage

Salvia coccinea

Not Evaluated

Bloodtwig dogwood

Cornus sanguinea

Least Concern

blood worm

Lumbricus rubellus

Not Evaluated

Bloodwort

Achillea millefolium

Least Concern

Bloody Beard

Usnea mutabilis

Not Evaluated

Bloody Brittlegill

Russula sanguinea

Near Threatened

Bloody-Butcher

Pulmonaria officinalis

Vulnerable

Bloody geranium

Geranium sanguineum

Least Concern

Bloody-Heart Lichen

Mycoblastus sanguinarius

Critically Endangered

bloody-red shrimp

Hemimysis anomala

Not Evaluated

Bloody small dung beetle

Otophorus haemorrhoidalis

Least Concern

Blotched Spurge

Euphorbia maculata

Not Evaluated

Blowball

Taraxacum officinale

Not Evaluated

Blow fly

Lucilia caesar

Least Concern

Blow Fly

Lucilia sericata

Least Concern

Blue-and-yellow Macaw

Ara ararauna

Least Concern

Blue Band Brittlegill

Russula chloroides

Least Concern

Blue Bead-Lily

Clintonia borealis

Not Evaluated

Blue-Bean

Lupinus perennis

Not Evaluated

Bluebell

Campanula rotundifolia

Near Threatened

Bluebell creeper

Billardiera heterophylla

Not Evaluated

Bluebells

Mertensia virginica

Not Evaluated

Blueberry

Vaccinium angustifolium

Not Evaluated

Blueberry leafroller

Dasystoma salicella

Vulnerable

Blue Bottle Fly

Calliphora vomitoria

Least Concern

Blue Bugle

Ajuga genevensis

Critically Endangered

Blue Buttons

Knautia arvensis

Near Threatened

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