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United States

North America · Northern America

Total Species
11292
Threatened
274
CR + EN + VU
Population
331,002,647
Area
9,833,517 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 42
Endangered 98
Vulnerable 134
Near Threatened 153
Least Concern 2196
Data Deficient 112
Not Evaluated 3438
Extinct in the Wild 1
Extinct 86

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 5386
Animalia 3833
Fungi 1835
Protozoa 86
Bacteria 78
Chromista 74

Featured Species

All Species in United States

small scabious

Scabiosa columbaria

Endangered

Green Beetle Hanger

Hesperomyces virescens

Not Evaluated

Sawfly

Athalia cornubiae

Not Evaluated

Small Stagshorn

Calocera cornea

Least Concern

small staircase cone

Propebela turricula

Data Deficient

small twisted moss

Tortella humilis

Not Evaluated

Heath Navel

Lichenomphalia umbellifera

Least Concern

Small Waterwort

Elatine minima

Least Concern

Small White Aster

Symphyotrichum racemosum

Not Evaluated

Small white clover

Trifolium nigrescens

Not Evaluated

Smoked Oysterling

Resupinatus applicatus

Least Concern

Small yellow balsam

Impatiens parviflora

Not Evaluated

Small Yellow Foxglove

Digitalis lutea

Not Evaluated

Smoky Bracket

Bjerkandera adusta

Least Concern

Smooth mesquite

Prosopis laevigata

Least Concern

Fairyfly

Stethynium triclavatum

Not Evaluated

Speckled Blister Lichen

Viridothelium virens

Not Evaluated

Irregular Earth Tongue

Neolecta irregularis

Not Evaluated

Violet root rot

Helicobasidium longisporum

Not Evaluated

Northern Red Belt

Fomitopsis mounceae

Not Evaluated

Cow Parsnip

Heracleum sphondylium

Least Concern

Cowpea

Vigna unguiculata

Not Evaluated

smoky shrew

Sorex fumeus

Least Concern

Smoky Spindles

Clavaria fumosa

Near Threatened

smoother rupture-wort

Herniaria glabra

Least Concern

Bumble Bee Hover Fly

Volucella bombylans

Least Concern

Smooth hawksbeard

Crepis capillaris

Least Concern

Smooth rattlebox

Crotalaria pallida

Least Concern

Smooth Saw-Grass

Cladium mariscoides

Least Concern

Smooth-Sheathed Fox Sedge

Carex laevivaginata

Least Concern

Smooth-Stalk Feather-Moss

Brachythecium salebrosum

Least Concern

Cyclopoid copepod

Megacyclops viridis

Not Evaluated

Root aphid

Forda formicaria

Not Evaluated

Tomato pinworm

Keiferia lycopersicella

Not Evaluated

sweetclover aphid

Therioaphis riehmi

Not Evaluated

Smooth Winterberry

Ilex laevigata

Least Concern

Vermiphilus pyriformis

Not Evaluated

Smooth yellow vetch

Vicia lutea

Not Evaluated

Smut grass

Sporobolus indicus

Not Evaluated

snake millepede

Blaniulus guttulatus

Least Concern

Snake tick

Amblyomma latum

Not Evaluated

Immigrant Pavement Ant

Tetramorium immigrans

Not Evaluated

Illustrious Greenbottle

Lucilia illustris

Least Concern

Staph beetle

Pycnoglypta lurida

Least Concern

Sepsid fly

Themira annulipes

Not Evaluated

Snowdrop Anemone

Anemone sylvestris

Least Concern

Snail medick

Medicago scutellata

Not Evaluated

Snail-Seed Pondweed

Potamogeton bicupulatus

Least Concern

Snakegourd

Trichosanthes cucumerina

Not Evaluated

Snakeskin Grisette

Amanita ceciliae

Least Concern

Sneezeweed

Achillea ptarmica

Least Concern

Spence's feather-winged beetle

Ptiliolum spencei

Least Concern

Snowbush

Breynia disticha

Not Evaluated

Sooty Milkcap

Lactarius fuliginosus

Data Deficient

Snow in summer

Cerastium tomentosum

Not Evaluated

Snow-in-summer

Cerastium biebersteinii

Not Evaluated

Snowpeaks raspberry

Rubus niveus

Not Evaluated

snowshoe hare

Lepus americanus

Least Concern

Soft butterfly pea

Centrosema molle

Not Evaluated

Membranous Pelt Lichen

Peltigera membranacea

Least Concern

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