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Canada

North America · Northern America

Total Species
4350
Threatened
40
CR + EN + VU
Population
37,742,157
Area
9,984,670 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 5
Endangered 14
Vulnerable 21
Near Threatened 29
Least Concern 526
Data Deficient 11
Not Evaluated 374
Extinct 5

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 3246
Animalia 1102
Fungi 1
Chromista 1

Featured Species

All Species in Canada

Arctic dock

Rumex arcticus

Not Evaluated

Parasitoid wasp

Coccophagus lycimnia

Not Evaluated

Lion'S Foot

Nabalus albus

Not Evaluated

Alaska draba

Draba stenoloba

Not Evaluated

Common sawfly

Hoplocampa brevis

Not Evaluated

Lined flat bark beetle

Cryptolestes ferrugineus

Least Concern

Merchant Grain Beetle

Oryzaephilus mercator

Not Evaluated

Short-winged firefly

Phosphaenus hemipterus

Least Concern

Broad-Horned Flour Beetle

Gnatocerus cornutus

Not Evaluated

Semi-striated pill beetle

Simplocaria semistriata

Least Concern

Seneca Root

Polygala senega

Not Evaluated

Garden Apple Slender

Callisto denticulella

Least Concern

Sessile Bellwort

Uvularia sessilifolia

Not Evaluated

Sevenbark

Hydrangea arborescens

Not Evaluated

Shade Moonwort

Botrychium tenebrosum

Endangered

sharped-leaved fluellen

Kickxia elatine

Least Concern

Small Tabby

Aglossa caprealis

Not Evaluated

Pacific mountain onion

Allium validum

Least Concern

sharp-wing monkey-flower

Mimulus alatus

Least Concern

Sheathed Sedge

Carex vaginata

Least Concern

Frigga Fritillary

Boloria frigga

Least Concern

Shellflower

Moluccella laevis

Not Evaluated

Shepherd's purse

Capsella bursa-pastoris

Not Evaluated

smooth goldfields

Lasthenia glaberrima

Least Concern

Shining Clubmoss

Huperzia lucidula

Not Evaluated

Siberian polypody

Polypodium sibiricum

Not Evaluated

Shining spurge

Euphorbia lucida

Not Evaluated

plains bluegrass

Poa arida

Not Evaluated

Shore Aster

Symphyotrichum tradescantii

Not Evaluated

Short-Headed Rush

Juncus brachycephalus

Least Concern

snow fleabane

Erigeron nivalis

Not Evaluated

Staph beetle

Leptacinus pusillus

Least Concern

Short-Leaved Sedge

Carex disperma

Near Threatened

Short's aster

Symphyotrichum shortii

Not Evaluated

alkali cordgrass

Sporobolus hookerianus

Not Evaluated

Siberian wheatgrass

Agropyron fragile

Not Evaluated

Alfalfa Weevil

Hypera postica

Least Concern

Rocky Mountain pussytoes

Antennaria media

Not Evaluated

Parasitoid wasp

Trichogramma semblidis

Not Evaluated

Rocky Mountain sedge

Carex saximontana

Not Evaluated

Allegheny Hawkweed

Hieracium paniculatum

Not Evaluated

Flea beetle

Mantura chrysanthemi

Least Concern

Wheat Flea Beetle

Neocrepidodera ferruginea

Least Concern

Strawberry Root Weevil

Sciaphilus asperatus

Least Concern

Weevil

Hypera meles

Least Concern

Large Thistle Weevil

Cleonis pigra

Vulnerable

Ichneumonid wasp

Mesoleius tenthredinis

Not Evaluated

Douglas Fir Seed Wasp

Megastigmus spermotrophus

Not Evaluated

Rocky Mountain willowherb

Epilobium saximontanum

Not Evaluated

Hound's tongue root weevil

Mogulones crucifer

Extinct

alpine dandelion

Taraxacum scopulorum

Not Evaluated

Hairy spider beetle

Ptinus villiger

Least Concern

Upland Blackclock

Pterostichus adstrictus

Least Concern

Weevil

Rhinoncus bruchoides

Least Concern

Depressed flour beetle

Palorus subdepressus

Not Evaluated

Staph beetle

Tachyporus abdominalis

Least Concern

Siberian plantain

Plantago canescens

Not Evaluated

Showy baby's-breath

Gypsophila elegans

Not Evaluated

Northern Firefly

Pyractomena borealis

Least Concern

Wasp

Euplectrus bicolor

Not Evaluated

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