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Italy

Europe · Southern Europe

Total Species
1910
Threatened
74
CR + EN + VU
Population
60.461.828
Area
301.336 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 16
Endangered 25
Vulnerable 33
Near Threatened 63
Least Concern 504
Data Deficient 24
Not Evaluated 1219
Extinct 20

Species by Taxonomic Group

Animalia 955
Plantae 918
Chromista 20
Fungi 15
Bacteria 2

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Italy

Box-leaved Honeysuckle

Lonicera pileata

Not Evaluated

Oldfashioned weigela

Weigela florida

Not Evaluated

Austrian copper rose

Rosa foetida

Not Evaluated

Hardhack

Sorbaria tomentosa

Not Evaluated

Broad-leaved Cockspurthorn

Crataegus persimilis

Not Evaluated

Willow-leaved Cotoneaster

Cotoneaster salicifolius

Not Evaluated

floating pennywort

Hydrocotyle ranunculoides

Least Concern

Common pricklypear

Opuntia monacantha

Least Concern

Variable flatsedge

Cyperus difformis

Least Concern

Bastard Cedar

Calocedrus decurrens

Least Concern

Nepal Knotweed

Persicaria nepalensis

Not Evaluated

Kiss Me Over The Garden Gate

Persicaria orientalis

Not Evaluated

Pinkhead smartweed

Persicaria capitata

Not Evaluated

Japanese spindletree

Euonymus japonicus

Not Evaluated

Syrian beancaper

Zygophyllum fabago

Least Concern

Golden bamboo

Phyllostachys aurea

Not Evaluated

Crimson fountaingrass

Cenchrus setaceus

Not Evaluated

Arrow bamboo

Pseudosasa japonica

Not Evaluated

Siberian melicgrass

Melica altissima

Not Evaluated

Lesser Star-thistle

Centaurea diluta

Not Evaluated

Australian waterbuttons

Cotula australis

Not Evaluated

Senegal teaplant

Gymnocoronis spilanthoides

Not Evaluated

Lavender-cotton

Santolina chamaecyparissus

Not Evaluated

Bachelor'S-Button

Gomphrena globosa

Not Evaluated

Australian Goosefoot

Dysphania pumilio

Not Evaluated

Rough-Fruit Amaranth

Amaranthus tuberculatus

Least Concern

Alligatorweed

Alternanthera philoxeroides

Not Evaluated

Water primrose

Ludwigia peploides

Not Evaluated

monkeyflower

Erythranthe guttata

Not Evaluated

Chayote

Sechium edule

Not Evaluated

Columbia Water-Meal

Wolffia columbiana

Least Concern

Duckweed

Lemna aequinoctialis

Not Evaluated

Brown Nonea

Nonea pulla

Not Evaluated

European bedstraw

Galium rubioides

Not Evaluated

Cherimoya

Annona cherimola

Not Evaluated

Asian Pony'S-Foot

Dichondra micrantha

Not Evaluated

Common Dodder

Cuscuta gronovii

Least Concern

Mile a minute vine

Ipomoea cairica

Not Evaluated

Ramie Chinese grass

Boehmeria nivea

Not Evaluated

coast redwood

Sequoia sempervirens

Endangered

Silver wattle

Acacia retinodes

Not Evaluated

White leadtree

Leucaena leucocephala

Least Concern

Plume albizia

Paraserianthes lophantha

Least Concern

Pokeweed

Phytolacca dioica

Not Evaluated

Sprenger's asparagus fern

Asparagus aethiopicus

Least Concern

Chilean jessamine

Cestrum parqui

Least Concern

Oriental virginsbower

Clematis orientalis

Not Evaluated

Argentine pepperweed

Lepidium bonariense

Not Evaluated

Graceful false flax

Camelina rumelica

Not Evaluated

Chicken Grape

Vitis vulpina

Not Evaluated

Canary Islands Pine

Pinus canariensis

Least Concern

candelabra aloe

Aloe arborescens

Least Concern

Caucasian stonecrop

Phedimus spurius

Not Evaluated

Kariba weed

Salvinia molesta

Not Evaluated

Himalayan honeysuckle

Leycesteria formosa

Not Evaluated

Mediterranean-medlar

Crataegus azarolus

Least Concern

Pear-Fruit Cockspurthorn

Crataegus coccinea

Not Evaluated

bearberry cotoneaster

Cotoneaster dammeri

Not Evaluated

Mexican fireplant

Euphorbia heterophylla

Not Evaluated

Fatsia

Fatsia japonica

Not Evaluated

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