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Japan

Asia · Eastern Asia

Total Species
1446
Threatened
56
CR + EN + VU
Population
126,476,461
Area
377,975 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 15
Endangered 20
Vulnerable 21
Near Threatened 41
Least Concern 426
Data Deficient 4
Not Evaluated 878
Extinct 20

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 1017
Animalia 427
Protozoa 2

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Japan

Common Fleabane

Erigeron philadelphicus

Not Evaluated

Sunset muskmallow

Abelmoschus manihot

Not Evaluated

Earleaf nightshade

Solanum mauritianum

Not Evaluated

Kiwi

Actinidia chinensis

Not Evaluated

Red brome

Bromus rubens

Not Evaluated

Ripgut Brome

Bromus rigidus

Not Evaluated

Prairie Grass

Sporobolus cryptandrus

Not Evaluated

Poverty Dropseed

Sporobolus vaginiflorus

Not Evaluated

Brown-Eyed Coneflower

Rudbeckia triloba

Not Evaluated

Green Amaranth

Amaranthus powellii

Not Evaluated

Broad-leaf arrowhead

Sagittaria platyphylla

Not Evaluated

Elephant creeper

Argyreia nervosa

Not Evaluated

Scarlet Sage

Salvia splendens

Not Evaluated

Slender false garlic

Nothoscordum gracile

Not Evaluated

Autumn zephyrlily

Zephyranthes candida

Not Evaluated

Bohena Beauty

Cenchrus longispinus

Not Evaluated

Nimblewill

Muhlenbergia schreberi

Not Evaluated

sieversian wormwood

Artemisia sieversiana

Not Evaluated

Redflower ragleaf

Crassocephalum crepidioides

Not Evaluated

Alternate-Leaved Crownbeard

Verbesina alternifolia

Not Evaluated

Chinese ixora

Ixora chinensis

Not Evaluated

Creeping indigo

Indigofera spicata

Not Evaluated

True indigo

Indigofera tinctoria

Not Evaluated

Clammy Ground-Cherry

Physalis heterophylla

Not Evaluated

African pepperwort

Lepidium africanum

Not Evaluated

Proliferous pink

Petrorhagia nanteuilii

Not Evaluated

Dwarf St. John'S Wort

Hypericum mutilum

Not Evaluated

Indian acalypha

Acalypha indica

Not Evaluated

Seneca Root

Polygala senega

Not Evaluated

Wilman lovegrass

Eragrostis superba

Not Evaluated

Knotweed

Rumex pratensis

Not Evaluated

stevia

Stevia rebaudiana

Not Evaluated

Bugseed

Corispermum hyssopifolium

Not Evaluated

Annual blue-eyed grass

Sisyrinchium rosulatum

Not Evaluated

bird-eye primrose

Primula laurentiana

Not Evaluated

Hedge bamboo

Bambusa multiplex

Not Evaluated

Caucasian bluestem

Bothriochloa bladhii

Not Evaluated

Stargrass

Cynodon plectostachyus

Not Evaluated

Crown Daisy

Glebionis coronaria

Not Evaluated

Indian fleabane

Pluchea indica

Not Evaluated

Mascarene island leaf-flower

Phyllanthus tenellus

Not Evaluated

Purpletop vervain

Verbena incompta

Not Evaluated

Formosa lily

Lilium formosanum

Not Evaluated

Fiveangled dodder

Cuscuta pentagona

Not Evaluated

transparent wood-rose

Operculina turpethum

Not Evaluated

prince's-vine

Ipomoea horsfalliae

Not Evaluated

Mediterranean lineseed

Bellardia trixago

Not Evaluated

blue mud-plantain

Heteranthera limosa

Not Evaluated

West Indian rattlebox

Crotalaria trichotoma

Not Evaluated

oak-leaf datura

Datura quercifolia

Not Evaluated

lily-of-the-valley-vine

Salpichroa origanifolia

Not Evaluated

butterfly-flower

Iris japonica

Not Evaluated

American Dewberry

Rubus flagellaris

Not Evaluated

Tortoise shell bamboo

Phyllostachys edulis

Not Evaluated

spreading meadow grass

Poa humilis

Not Evaluated

Early Goldenrod

Solidago juncea

Not Evaluated

Bluewings

Torenia fournieri

Not Evaluated

Japanese fibre banana

Musa basjoo

Not Evaluated

Slender Cottonweed

Froelichia gracilis

Not Evaluated

Prairie Grass

Sphenopholis obtusata

Not Evaluated

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