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United Kingdom

Europe · Northern Europe

Total Species
4019
Threatened
171
CR + EN + VU
Population
67 886 011
Area
242 495 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 42
Endangered 69
Vulnerable 60
Near Threatened 113
Least Concern 878
Data Deficient 28
Not Evaluated 2695
Extinct in the Wild 1
Extinct 41

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 2273
Animalia 1568
Fungi 126
Chromista 50
Bacteria 2

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in United Kingdom

Billard's Bridewort

Spiraea billardii

Not Evaluated

Australian treefern

Dicksonia antarctica

Not Evaluated

velvet tobacco

Nicotiana velutina

Not Evaluated

Fly

Phytomyza hellebori

Not Evaluated

Uruguayan needlegrass

Nassella neesiana

Not Evaluated

Kiwi

Actinidia chinensis

Not Evaluated

Indian Meal Moth

Plodia interpunctella

Not Evaluated

Pale Stagshorn

Calocera pallidospathulata

Not Evaluated

Oxalis Rust

Puccinia oxalidis

Not Evaluated

Two-toothed pine beetle

Pityogenes bidentatus

Least Concern

Big quakinggrass

Briza maxima

Not Evaluated

Australian stork's bill

Erodium cygnorum

Not Evaluated

American Horseshoe Crab

Limulus polyphemus

Not Evaluated

Alexanders Rust

Puccinia smyrnii

Not Evaluated

African bird Argasid

Argas reflexus

Not Evaluated

Red flour beetle

Tribolium castaneum

Least Concern

Kentish snail

Monacha cantiana

Vulnerable

Narrow-Leaf Bittercress

Cardamine impatiens

Least Concern

Musk Stork's-bill

Erodium moschatum

Not Evaluated

Narrow-leafed Ash

Fraxinus angustifolia

Least Concern

Malayan porcupine

Hystrix brachyura

Least Concern

Narrowleaf hawksbeard

Crepis tectorum

Near Threatened

bigpod sesbania

Sesbania herbacea

Not Evaluated

Narrowleaf knotweed

Polygonum bellardii

Not Evaluated

Red brome

Bromus rubens

Not Evaluated

Webbing clothes moth

Tineola bisselliella

Least Concern

Jenkins' spire shell

Potamopyrgus antipodarum

Not Evaluated

Hare's-tail

Lagurus ovatus

Not Evaluated

Least Pepperwort

Lepidium virginicum

Not Evaluated

Japan Globeflower

Kerria japonica

Not Evaluated

Bethlehem Lungwort

Pulmonaria saccharata

Not Evaluated

Australian spider beetle

Ptinus tectus

Least Concern

Japanese skeleton shrimp

Caprella mutica

Not Evaluated

Japanese Umbrella Pine

Sciadopitys verticillata

Not Evaluated

Japanese shore crab

Hemigrapsus penicillatus

Not Evaluated

Waterwheel plant

Aldrovanda vesiculosa

Endangered

Milk Thistle Rust

Puccinia mariana

Not Evaluated

Japanese Rose

Rosa rugosa

Not Evaluated

Japanese privet

Ligustrum japonicum

Not Evaluated

American mink

Mustela vison

Not Evaluated

Creeping Cotoneaster

Cotoneaster adpressus

Not Evaluated

Creeping Fescue

Festuca rubra

Least Concern

Japanese netvein hollyfern

Cyrtomium falcatum

Not Evaluated

neglected dune snail

Cernuella neglecta

Data Deficient

Nepal Knotweed

Persicaria nepalensis

Not Evaluated

Nettle-leaf mullein

Verbascum chaixii

Not Evaluated

Japanese Maple

Acer palmatum

Not Evaluated

New Forest Cicada

Cicadetta montana

Near Threatened

Ciliate Loosestrife

Lysimachia ciliata

Not Evaluated

New Zealand Bitter-cress

Cardamine corymbosa

Not Evaluated

Polynesian rat

Rattus exulans

Least Concern

Bermudagrass

Cynodon dactylon

Least Concern

American Hedge-Hyssop

Gratiola neglecta

Not Evaluated

New zealand pigmyweed

Crassula helmsii

Not Evaluated

Japanese spindletree

Euonymus japonicus

Not Evaluated

Japanese leafhopper

Orientus ishidae

Not Evaluated

Pallas's squirrel, Red-bellied tree squirrel

Callosciurus erythraeus

Not Evaluated

Japanese larch

Larix kaempferi

Not Evaluated

Julia's primrose

Primula juliae

Not Evaluated

Mongolian gerbil

Meriones unguiculatus

Not Evaluated

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