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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

Viper grass

Dinebra retroflexa

Not Evaluated

Violet crabgrass

Digitaria violascens

Not Evaluated

Violet-Flower Petunia

Petunia integrifolia

Not Evaluated

Violet Turaco

Musophaga violacea

Least Concern

Violet willow

Salix daphnoides

Vulnerable

violin spiders

Loxosceles rufescens

Not Evaluated

Virginian Rose

Rosa virginiana

Not Evaluated

Virginia Stock

Malcolmia maritima

Not Evaluated

Isopod

Synidotea laticauda

Not Evaluated

Vitelline Masked-Weaver

Ploceus vitellinus

Least Concern

Waldstein's Spurge

Euphorbia virgata

Not Evaluated

Walnut

Juglans regia

Least Concern

Ward's weed

Carrichtera annua

Not Evaluated

Wandering Mussel

Dreissena polymorpha

Not Evaluated

Wandering vetch

Vicia peregrina

Not Evaluated

Wand mullein

Verbascum virgatum

Not Evaluated

Warty bedstraw

Galium verrucosum

Not Evaluated

Washerwoman

Alternanthera caracasana

Not Evaluated

Loose Smut Of Wheat And Barley

Ustilago tritici

Not Evaluated

Watercress-Leaf Rocket

Erucastrum nasturtiifolium

Not Evaluated

Water fern

Azolla filiculoides

Not Evaluated

Water lettuce

Pistia stratiotes

Least Concern

Water primrose

Ludwigia grandiflora

Not Evaluated

Water primrose

Ludwigia peploides

Not Evaluated

water soldier

Stratiotes aloides

Critically Endangered

Dingy Dowd

Blastobasis adustella

Not Evaluated

Waterthyme

Hydrilla verticillata

Not Evaluated

Water yam

Dioscorea alata

Not Evaluated

Wattled Starling

Creatophora cinerea

Least Concern

Wavyleaf mullein

Verbascum sinuatum

Not Evaluated

Wavyleaf sea lavender

Limonium sinuatum

Not Evaluated

Web-spinning Larch Sawfly

Cephalcia lariciphila

Not Evaluated

Wedgeleaf dock

Rumex frutescens

Not Evaluated

Weed silene

Silene conoidea

Not Evaluated

Weedy brome

Bromus alopecuros

Not Evaluated

Weeping lovegrass

Eragrostis curvula

Not Evaluated

Black Sumac

Rhus copallina

Least Concern

Weevil

Otiorhynchus ligustici

Least Concern

weeping willow

Salix babylonica

Not Evaluated

Weeping willow

Salix sepulcralis

Not Evaluated

northern smooth sumac

Rhus pulvinata

Not Evaluated

Weevil

Liophloeus tessulatus

Least Concern

Weld

Reseda luteola

Least Concern

Welsh onion

Allium fistulosum

Critically Endangered

Western Bluebill

Spermophaga haematina

Least Concern

Mountain Cinquefoil

Potentilla montana

Extinct

Manna Ash

Fraxinus ornus

Not Evaluated

Western Conifer Seed Bug

Leptoglossus occidentalis

Not Evaluated

Western flower thrips

Frankliniella occidentalis

Not Evaluated

Western Hemlock-spruce

Tsuga heterophylla

Not Evaluated

Clasping Mullein

Verbascum phlomoides

Not Evaluated

western polypody

Polypodium hesperium

Not Evaluated

Murex

Medicago murex

Not Evaluated

Western Rosella

Platycercus icterotis

Least Concern

Chives

Allium schoenoprasum

Least Concern

prairie-mallow

Sidalcea candida

Not Evaluated

Prickly Heath

Gaultheria mucronata

Not Evaluated

common ramping-fumitory

Fumaria muralis

Not Evaluated

Western Yellow-pine

Pinus ponderosa

Not Evaluated

Broomcorn

Sorghum bicolor

Not Evaluated

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