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Iceland

Europe · Northern Europe

Total Species
837
Threatened
77
CR + EN + VU
Population
341.250
Area
103.000 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 21
Endangered 23
Vulnerable 33
Near Threatened 64
Least Concern 447
Data Deficient 2
Not Evaluated 230
Extinct 14

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 717
Animalia 109
Fungi 7
Chromista 3
Bacteria 1

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Iceland

Mexican stonecrop

Sedum mexicanum

Not Evaluated

Dead Man'S Fingers

Codium fragile

Not Evaluated

Italian bellflower

Campanula fragilis

Not Evaluated

Squat Dandelion

Taraxacum naevosum

Least Concern

Norwegian arctic-cudweed

Omalotheca norvegica

Least Concern

Shade Moonwort

Botrychium tenebrosum

Endangered

Goldilocks aster

Galatella linosyris

Least Concern

Deer Fern

Struthiopteris spicant

Least Concern

Mountain Rock-Cress

Arabidopsis petraea

Least Concern

Western Larch

Larix occidentalis

Least Concern

Coulter'S Willow

Salix sitchensis

Not Evaluated

arctic lupine

Lupinus arcticus

Not Evaluated

Ramensk's sedge

Carex ramenskii

Not Evaluated

Blood-red Dandelion

Taraxacum haematicum

Least Concern

Multilobed Dandelion

Taraxacum angustisquameum

Not Evaluated

Small-headed Dandelion

Taraxacum sublaeticolor

Least Concern

Tea-Leaf Willow

Salix phylicifolia

Least Concern

Wavy Meadow-Grass

Poa flexuosa

Least Concern

yellow monkey-flower

Erythranthe lutea

Not Evaluated

Scrub Pine

Pinus albicaulis

Endangered

fringed-gentian

Gentianopsis detonsa

Not Evaluated

Meadow barley

Hordeum brachyantherum

Not Evaluated

Narrow-lobed Dandelion

Taraxacum falcatum

Least Concern

Ben Lawes Dandelion

Taraxacum cymbifolium

Not Evaluated

spring groundsel

Senecio vernalis

Not Evaluated

Bitter Wintercress

Barbarea vulgaris

Not Evaluated

Persian hogweed

Heracleum persicum

Not Evaluated

Greenland Primrose

Primula egaliksensis

Least Concern

Stiff-leaved Dandelion

Taraxacum stictophyllum

Not Evaluated

Alpine Larch

Larix lyallii

Least Concern

Western Hawkweed

Hieracium stenopholidium

Not Evaluated

Parallel-leaved Dandelion

Taraxacum xiphoideum

Not Evaluated

Red-fruited Dandelion

Taraxacum rubellum

Not Evaluated

Small-spotted Dandelion

Taraxacum pycnostictum

Not Evaluated

Barley

Hordeum distichon

Not Evaluated

English Hawkweed

Hieracium anglicum

Not Evaluated

Virginia Stock

Malcolmia maritima

Not Evaluated

Small-Flowered Winter-Cress

Barbarea stricta

Not Evaluated

White Bedstraw

Galium album

Not Evaluated

Oxlip

Primula elatior

Not Evaluated

melancholy thistle

Cirsium helenioides

Not Evaluated

Alpine Blue-sow-thistle

Cicerbita alpina

Not Evaluated

Reed Fescue

Lolium arundinaceum

Not Evaluated

Mouse-Ear Hawkweed

Pilosella officinarum

Not Evaluated

American Dune Grass

Leymus mollis

Not Evaluated

Scandinavian Small-Reed

Calamagrostis purpurea

Not Evaluated

Slimy Spike

Gomphidius glutinosus

Data Deficient

Greville's Bolete

Suillus grevillei

Least Concern

Larch Knight

Tricholoma psammopus

Least Concern

Slippery Jack

Suillus luteus

Least Concern

False Saffron Milkcap

Lactarius deterrimus

Least Concern

The Granulated Bolete

Suillus granulatus

Least Concern

Jellied Bolete

Suillus flavidus

Critically Endangered

toothed wrack

Fucus serratus

Least Concern

Heterosigma akashiwo

Not Evaluated

Stephanopyxis turris

Not Evaluated

Furunculosis Ulcer Disease

Aeromonas salmonicida

Not Evaluated

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