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Belgium

Europe · Western Europe

Total Species
12026
Threatened
1370
CR + EN + VU
Population
11 589 616
Area
30 528 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 261
Endangered 469
Vulnerable 640
Near Threatened 732
Least Concern 4757
Data Deficient 359
Not Evaluated 4522
Extinct 178

Species by Taxonomic Group

Animalia 5675
Plantae 3894
Fungi 2229
Protozoa 121
Chromista 104
Bacteria 3

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Belgium

holy-flax

Santolina rosmarinifolia

Not Evaluated

thistle aphid

Brachycaudus cardui

Not Evaluated

Slipperwort

Calceolaria chelidonioides

Not Evaluated

violet horned-poppy

Roemeria hybrida

Not Evaluated

common heath snail

Helicella itala

Not Evaluated

curly windmill grass

Enteropogon acicularis

Not Evaluated

joint-vetch

Aeschynomene americana

Least Concern

Hairy Pennywort

Hydrocotyle moschata

Not Evaluated

Common Mycocalia

Mycocalia denudata

Least Concern

shaggy wood fern

Dryopteris cycadina

Not Evaluated

Greek Squill

Scilla messeniaca

Not Evaluated

Red-backed Furrow Bee

Lasioglossum laevigatum

Not Evaluated

Common Pondskater

Gerris lacustris

Least Concern

Japanese mugwort

Artemisia princeps

Not Evaluated

Common Pill Woodlouse

Armadillidium vulgare

Near Threatened

Korean tasselfern

Polystichum polyblepharon

Not Evaluated

Turkish Squill

Scilla bithynica

Not Evaluated

Pyrenean Squill

Scilla lilio-hyacinthus

Not Evaluated

Rottingdean Sea-lavender

Limonium hyblaeum

Not Evaluated

Common Pouchwort

Calypogeia fissa

Vulnerable

leafless hawk's-beard

Crepis praemorsa

Near Threatened

Coral Spurge

Euphorbia corallioides

Not Evaluated

Sherriff's Cotoneaster

Cotoneaster sherriffii

Not Evaluated

Purpleberry Cotoneaster

Cotoneaster affinis

Not Evaluated

Teasel

Lomelosia stellata

Not Evaluated

Scarlet geranium

Pelargonium inquinans

Not Evaluated

St Patrick's-cabbage

Saxifraga spathularis

Not Evaluated

Purple Potato

Solanum vernei

Not Evaluated

Large-flowered Butterwort

Pinguicula grandiflora

Not Evaluated

Variable-Leaved Crestwort

Lophocolea heterophylla

Least Concern

Common Sawfly

Cladius grandis

Near Threatened

Common Shiny Woodlouse

Oniscus asellus

Least Concern

confused fescue

Festuca lemanii

Not Evaluated

velvetweed

Oenothera curtiflora

Not Evaluated

Slender Groundsel

Senecio glossanthus

Not Evaluated

Tropical amaranth

Amaranthus polygonoides

Not Evaluated

Common Spiny Lobster

Palinurus elephas

Not Evaluated

Conifer Roundhead

Stropharia hornemannii

Least Concern

White Knight

Tricholoma album

Least Concern

Common Stinkhorn

Phallus impudicus

Least Concern

Common Stump Brittlestem

Psathyrella piluliformis

Least Concern

Common stork's bill

Erodium ciconium

Not Evaluated

common striped woodlouse

Philoscia muscorum

Least Concern

toadflax-leaf St. John's-wort

Hypericum linariifolium

Not Evaluated

Common Tarcrust

Diatrype stigma

Not Evaluated

jostaberry

Ribes nidigrolaria

Not Evaluated

Willow Barkspot

Diatrype bullata

Least Concern

Conifer Webcap

Cortinarius gentilis

Data Deficient

Common Water-Boatman

Notonecta glauca

Least Concern

Cowboy'S Handkerchief

Hygrophorus eburneus

Near Threatened

Greyling Bracket

Postia tephroleuca

Least Concern

Deer Mushroom

Pluteus cervinus

Least Concern

Common Yellow Russula

Russula ochroleuca

Least Concern

Cedar Cup

Geopora sumneriana

Not Evaluated

Compact brome

Bromus madritensis

Not Evaluated

Confederate jasmine

Trachelospermum jasminoides

Not Evaluated

Oak Carl

Tischeria ekebladella

Least Concern

Earth Tongue

Microglossum olivaceum

Vulnerable

Felted Twiglet

Tubaria conspersa

Least Concern

concealed lamellaria

Lamellaria latens

Not Evaluated

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