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Italy

Europe · Southern Europe

Total Species
1910
Threatened
73
CR + EN + VU
Population
60 461 828
Area
301 336 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 16
Endangered 25
Vulnerable 32
Near Threatened 61
Least Concern 471
Data Deficient 22
Not Evaluated 1156
Extinct 20

Species by Taxonomic Group

Animalia 955
Plantae 918
Chromista 20
Fungi 15
Bacteria 2

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Italy

Brownspine Pricklypear

Opuntia phaeacantha

Least Concern

Angel's-wings

Opuntia microdasys

Least Concern

Manila grass

Zoysia matrella

Not Evaluated

Carolina Lovegrass

Eragrostis pectinacea

Not Evaluated

Viper grass

Dinebra retroflexa

Not Evaluated

Carolina bristlemallow

Modiola caroliniana

Not Evaluated

River sheoak

Casuarina cunninghamiana

Least Concern

Bristly Locust

Robinia hispida

Not Evaluated

Weed silene

Silene conoidea

Not Evaluated

Bonnemaison'S Hook Weed

Bonnemaisonia hamifera

Not Evaluated

Silverleaf cotoneaster

Cotoneaster pannosus

Not Evaluated

Heartleaf madeiravine

Anredera cordifolia

Not Evaluated

Black Bulrush

Scirpus atrovirens

Not Evaluated

Deutzia

Deutzia crenata

Not Evaluated

Bicolor Cobra Lily

Chasmanthe bicolor

Vulnerable

Feathertop

Cenchrus longisetus

Not Evaluated

Russian wildrye

Psathyrostachys juncea

Least Concern

Orange Coneflower

Rudbeckia fulgida

Not Evaluated

lowland rotala

Rotala ramosior

Not Evaluated

Kiss me quick

Portulaca pilosa

Not Evaluated

Nodding hypecoum

Hypecoum pendulum

Not Evaluated

Spider plant

Chlorophytum comosum

Not Evaluated

Common asparagus fern

Asparagus setaceus

Not Evaluated

Scarlet spiderling

Boerhavia coccinea

Not Evaluated

Chinese crab apple

Malus hupehensis

Least Concern

Reeves' meadowsweet

Spiraea cantoniensis

Least Concern

Urban spurge

Euphorbia agraria

Not Evaluated

Balkan Spurge

Euphorbia oblongata

Not Evaluated

American angelica-tree

Aralia spinosa

Not Evaluated

Paradise Apple

Malus dasyphylla

Data Deficient

Hairy Panic Grass

Dichanthelium acuminatum

Not Evaluated

Rose glorybower

Clerodendrum bungei

Least Concern

Mexican bush sage

Salvia leucantha

Not Evaluated

Water-Lily

Nymphaea marliacea

Not Evaluated

Nightshade

Solanum linnaeanum

Least Concern

Asian copperleaf

Acalypha australis

Not Evaluated

Hedge Cactus

Cereus hildmannianus

Least Concern

Cactus-apple

Opuntia engelmannii

Least Concern

dense flat sedge

Cyperus congestus

Not Evaluated

biennial beeblossom

Oenothera gaura

Not Evaluated

Seashore vervain

Verbena litoralis

Least Concern

Fortune's Yew Plum

Cephalotaxus fortunei

Least Concern

Caracus wigandia

Wigandia urens

Not Evaluated

African-Spinach

Amaranthus cruentus

Not Evaluated

Prince Of Wales-Feather

Amaranthus hypochondriacus

Not Evaluated

Flat-topped Yate

Eucalyptus occidentalis

Endangered

Winter Jasmine

Jasminum nudiflorum

Not Evaluated

Annual Fleabane

Erigeron annuus

Not Evaluated

Hampe’s tamarisk

Tamarix hampeana

Least Concern

visco

Parasenegalia visco

Least Concern

Fringed dodder

Cuscuta suaveolens

Not Evaluated

Japanese netvein hollyfern

Cyrtomium falcatum

Not Evaluated

Mimosa

Albizia julibrissin

Not Evaluated

Orangeberry nightshade

Solanum lanceolatum

Least Concern

Watkins fig

Ficus watkinsiana

Least Concern

Black bamboo

Phyllostachys nigra

Not Evaluated

Indian thorny bamboo

Bambusa bambos

Not Evaluated

henequen

Agave fourcroydes

Not Evaluated

Oxtongue

Picris rhagadioloides

Not Evaluated

Japanese jasmine

Jasminum mesnyi

Not Evaluated

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