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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

Forrest's Tutsan

Hypericum forrestii

Not Evaluated

New Zealand Pennywort

Hydrocotyle novae-zeelandiae

Not Evaluated

Fernleaf yarrow

Achillea filipendulina

Not Evaluated

Fern-leaved Corydalis

Corydalis cheilanthifolia

Not Evaluated

Hairy yellow vetch

Vicia hybrida

Not Evaluated

box-holly

Ruscus aculeatus

Not Evaluated

Box-leaved Honeysuckle

Lonicera pileata

Not Evaluated

Sachalin willow

Salix udensis

Not Evaluated

Brookwood Crestwort

Lophocolea brookwoodiana

Data Deficient

slender-fruit saltbush

Atriplex leptocarpa

Not Evaluated

Smooth joyweed

Alternanthera paronychioides

Not Evaluated

Brown China-Mark

Elophila nymphaeata

Least Concern

Prostrate Toadflax

Linaria supina

Not Evaluated

Londonpride

Saxifraga urbium

Not Evaluated

Three-lobed Stork's-bill

Erodium chium

Not Evaluated

Chinese Scholartree

Styphnolobium japonicum

Not Evaluated

Fraser Fir

Abies fraseri

Endangered

Himalayan Crane's-bill

Geranium himalayense

Not Evaluated

Diels's cotoneaster

Cotoneaster dielsianus

Not Evaluated

jumping spiders

Plexippus paykulli

Not Evaluated

danewort, dwarf elder

Sambucus ebulus

Least Concern

Early Medick

Medicago praecox

Not Evaluated

Cattail Grass

Setaria pumila

Least Concern

Cricket-Bat Willow

Salix alba

Least Concern

Green Immigrant Leaf Weevil

Polydrusus formosus

Least Concern

Chinese wax scale

Ceroplastes sinensis

Not Evaluated

Medick

Medicago monantha

Not Evaluated

Starry Clover

Trifolium stellatum

Not Evaluated

diffuse clover

Trifolium diffusum

Not Evaluated

Caucasian Beet

Beta trigyna

Not Evaluated

Caucasian comfrey

Symphytum caucasicum

Not Evaluated

Grey Pine Ermel

Ocnerostoma friesei

Least Concern

Caucasian Wingnut

Pterocarya fraxinifolia

Not Evaluated

eared osier

Salix stipularis

Not Evaluated

Bonnemaison'S Hook Weed

Bonnemaisonia hamifera

Not Evaluated

giant false spiraea

Sorbaria kirilowii

Not Evaluated

Celandine Saxifrage

Saxifraga cymbalaria

Not Evaluated

Rivet wheat

Triticum turgidum

Not Evaluated

Cedar-of-Lebanon

Cedrus libani

Vulnerable

Cellar spider

Micropholcus fauroti

Not Evaluated

cellar spiders

Crossopriza lyoni

Not Evaluated

Breckland Piercer

Cydia millenniana

Not Evaluated

Cape Pigweed

Amaranthus capensis

Not Evaluated

Woolly Tea-tree

Leptospermum lanigerum

Least Concern

Cider Gum

Eucalyptus gunnii

Not Evaluated

Chinese Angelica-tree

Aralia chinensis

Vulnerable

Western Gorse

Ulex gallii

Not Evaluated

Kleingrass

Panicum coloratum

Not Evaluated

Rosy sandcrocus

Romulea rosea

Not Evaluated

Schweinitz's cyperus

Cyperus schweinitzii

Not Evaluated

Corsican Toadflax

Cymbalaria hepaticifolia

Not Evaluated

Scaly Hawkbit

Hedypnois cretica

Not Evaluated

Chalkhill Blue

Lysandra coridon

Least Concern

Pop saltbush

Atriplex holocarpa

Not Evaluated

Rockery Willowherb

Epilobium pedunculare

Not Evaluated

Wallaby-grass

Rytidosperma racemosum

Not Evaluated

Nootka Lupine

Lupinus nootkatensis

Not Evaluated

Indian Fountain-bamboo

Yushania anceps

Not Evaluated

narrow Canary grass

Phalaris angusta

Not Evaluated

urn gum

Eucalyptus urnigera

Least Concern

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