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Iceland

Europe · Northern Europe

Total Species
837
Threatened
76
CR + EN + VU
Population
341.250
Area
103.000 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 21
Endangered 23
Vulnerable 32
Near Threatened 63
Least Concern 438
Data Deficient 2
Not Evaluated 219
Extinct 13

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 717
Animalia 109
Fungi 7
Chromista 3
Bacteria 1

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Iceland

Multilobed Dandelion

Taraxacum angustisquameum

Not Evaluated

Small-headed Dandelion

Taraxacum sublaeticolor

Least Concern

Tea-Leaf Willow

Salix phylicifolia

Least Concern

Wavy Meadow-Grass

Poa flexuosa

Least Concern

yellow monkey-flower

Erythranthe lutea

Not Evaluated

Scrub Pine

Pinus albicaulis

Endangered

fringed-gentian

Gentianopsis detonsa

Not Evaluated

Meadow barley

Hordeum brachyantherum

Not Evaluated

Narrow-lobed Dandelion

Taraxacum falcatum

Least Concern

Ben Lawes Dandelion

Taraxacum cymbifolium

Not Evaluated

spring groundsel

Senecio vernalis

Not Evaluated

Bitter Wintercress

Barbarea vulgaris

Not Evaluated

Persian hogweed

Heracleum persicum

Not Evaluated

Greenland Primrose

Primula egaliksensis

Least Concern

Stiff-leaved Dandelion

Taraxacum stictophyllum

Not Evaluated

Alpine Larch

Larix lyallii

Least Concern

Western Hawkweed

Hieracium stenopholidium

Not Evaluated

Parallel-leaved Dandelion

Taraxacum xiphoideum

Not Evaluated

Red-fruited Dandelion

Taraxacum rubellum

Not Evaluated

Small-spotted Dandelion

Taraxacum pycnostictum

Not Evaluated

Barley

Hordeum distichon

Not Evaluated

English Hawkweed

Hieracium anglicum

Not Evaluated

Virginia Stock

Malcolmia maritima

Not Evaluated

Small-Flowered Winter-Cress

Barbarea stricta

Not Evaluated

White Bedstraw

Galium album

Not Evaluated

Oxlip

Primula elatior

Not Evaluated

melancholy thistle

Cirsium helenioides

Not Evaluated

Alpine Blue-sow-thistle

Cicerbita alpina

Not Evaluated

Reed Fescue

Lolium arundinaceum

Not Evaluated

Mouse-Ear Hawkweed

Pilosella officinarum

Not Evaluated

American Dune Grass

Leymus mollis

Not Evaluated

Scandinavian Small-Reed

Calamagrostis purpurea

Not Evaluated

Slimy Spike

Gomphidius glutinosus

Data Deficient

Greville's Bolete

Suillus grevillei

Least Concern

Larch Knight

Tricholoma psammopus

Least Concern

Slippery Jack

Suillus luteus

Least Concern

False Saffron Milkcap

Lactarius deterrimus

Least Concern

The Granulated Bolete

Suillus granulatus

Least Concern

Jellied Bolete

Suillus flavidus

Critically Endangered

toothed wrack

Fucus serratus

Least Concern

Heterosigma akashiwo

Not Evaluated

Stephanopyxis turris

Not Evaluated

Chilean Flamingo

Phoenicopterus chilensis

Not Evaluated

Furunculosis Ulcer Disease

Aeromonas salmonicida

Not Evaluated

Rock Pigeon

Columba livia

Least Concern

caribou

Rangifer tarandus

Extinct

Sea Vase

Ciona intestinalis

Least Concern

Large-Neck Clam

Mya arenaria

Vulnerable

European rabbit

Oryctolagus cuniculus

Near Threatened

Large Cabbage White

Pieris brassicae

Least Concern

Cabbage White

Pieris rapae

Least Concern

Brown Rat

Rattus norvegicus

Least Concern

house mouse

Mus musculus

Least Concern

winter moth

Operophtera brumata

Least Concern

Canada Goose (canadensis Group)

Branta canadensis

Not Evaluated

Ruddy Duck

Oxyura jamaicensis

Least Concern

Mandarin Duck

Aix galericulata

Not Evaluated

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