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Japan

Asia · Eastern Asia

Total Species
1446
Threatened
54
CR + EN + VU
Population
126,476,461
Area
377,975 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 12
Endangered 21
Vulnerable 21
Near Threatened 42
Least Concern 420
Data Deficient 4
Not Evaluated 840
Extinct 19

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 1017
Animalia 427
Protozoa 2

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Japan

Fiddle dock

Rumex pulcher

Not Evaluated

Glossy privet

Ligustrum lucidum

Not Evaluated

Oleander

Nerium oleander

Not Evaluated

Bulbous canarygrass

Phalaris aquatica

Not Evaluated

Littleseed canarygrass

Phalaris minor

Not Evaluated

Slender oat

Avena barbata

Not Evaluated

Moor Grass

Molinia caerulea

Least Concern

Bulbous Bluegrass

Poa bulbosa

Near Threatened

Feather fingergrass

Chloris virgata

Not Evaluated

Hairy Love Grass

Eragrostis pilosa

Not Evaluated

Poverty brome

Bromus sterilis

Least Concern

Bristly dogstail grass

Cynosurus echinatus

Not Evaluated

Big quakinggrass

Briza maxima

Not Evaluated

Common Quaking Grass

Briza media

Vulnerable

Little quakinggrass

Briza minor

Not Evaluated

Dense Silky-bent

Apera interrupta

Near Threatened

Common Silver Hairgrass

Aira caryophyllea

Endangered

Capeweed

Arctotheca calendula

Not Evaluated

Latin American fleabane

Erigeron karvinskianus

Not Evaluated

Cuman Ragweed

Ambrosia psilostachya

Not Evaluated

Downy Safflower

Carthamus lanatus

Not Evaluated

Yellow Star-thistle

Centaurea solstitialis

Not Evaluated

Blessed thistle

Centaurea benedicta

Not Evaluated

Santa maria feverfew

Parthenium hysterophorus

Not Evaluated

False daisy

Eclipta prostrata

Not Evaluated

Spanish-needles

Bidens bipinnata

Not Evaluated

American Wormseed

Dysphania ambrosioides

Not Evaluated

Russian pigweed

Axyris amaranthoides

Not Evaluated

Guernsey Pigweed

Amaranthus blitum

Least Concern

Buzzy lizzy

Impatiens walleriana

Not Evaluated

Lantana

Lantana camara

Least Concern

Fleshy Yellow-sorrel

Oxalis tetraphylla

Not Evaluated

Manchu tubergourd

Thladiantha dubia

Not Evaluated

Prickly fanpetals

Sida spinosa

Not Evaluated

Angled Burr Cucumber

Sicyos angulatus

Not Evaluated

Rootless Duckweed

Wolffia arrhiza

Endangered

Maidenhair Fern

Adiantum capillus-veneris

Least Concern

False Baby'S Breath

Galium mollugo

Least Concern

Entire-Leaved Morning Glory

Ipomoea hederacea

Not Evaluated

Swamp morning-glory

Ipomoea aquatica

Least Concern

Beebalm

Monarda didyma

Not Evaluated

False Dragonhead

Physostegia virginiana

Not Evaluated

Wild clary

Salvia verbenaca

Not Evaluated

Spiderwort

Tradescantia virginiana

Not Evaluated

Pickerel-Weed

Pontederia cordata

Not Evaluated

American Pellitory

Parietaria pensylvanica

Not Evaluated

Tape grass

Vallisneria spiralis

Least Concern

Chinese Scholartree

Styphnolobium japonicum

Not Evaluated

Blackdisk medick

Medicago orbicularis

Not Evaluated

Boissier'S Glory-Of-The-Snow

Scilla luciliae

Not Evaluated

Garden Bluebell

Hyacinthoides hispanica

Not Evaluated

Small Nightshade

Solanum triflorum

Not Evaluated

Jerusalem cherry

Solanum pseudocapsicum

Not Evaluated

Clasping pepperweed

Lepidium perfoliatum

Not Evaluated

London rocket

Sisymbrium irio

Not Evaluated

Beanpodded Mustard

Chorispora tenella

Not Evaluated

Parrotfeather

Myriophyllum aquaticum

Not Evaluated

Showy baby's-breath

Gypsophila elegans

Not Evaluated

Annual pearlwort

Sagina apetala

Least Concern

proliferous pink

Petrorhagia prolifera

Near Threatened

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