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United States

North America · Northern America

Total Species
11292
Threatened
794
CR + EN + VU
Population
331002647
Area
9833517 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 159
Endangered 267
Vulnerable 368
Near Threatened 429
Least Concern 4219
Data Deficient 187
Not Evaluated 5464
Extinct in the Wild 1
Extinct 150

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 5386
Animalia 3833
Fungi 1835
Protozoa 86
Bacteria 78
Chromista 74

Featured Species

All Species in United States

Crumpled Rag Lichen

Platismatia tuckermanii

Not Evaluated

Blue Polypore

Neoalbatrellus caeruleoporus

Not Evaluated

Broadleaf forget-me-not

Myosotis latifolia

Not Evaluated

Broadleaved bristlegrass

Setaria palmifolia

Not Evaluated

Pale Cow-Hair Moss

Ditrichum pallidum

Critically Endangered

Fairy Sparklers

Xylaria tentaculata

Not Evaluated

Parasitoid wasp

Aphelinus varipes

Not Evaluated

Newstead scale

Lepidosaphes newsteadi

Not Evaluated

Pale-marked Angle

Macaria signaria

Least Concern

Cytospora Canker

Cytospora kunzei

Not Evaluated

Bacidia rosella

Critically Endangered

Pink Fringed Faery Cup

Microstoma floccosum

Not Evaluated

Poison Ivy Rust

Pileolaria brevipes

Not Evaluated

Scaly Chanterelle

Turbinellus floccosus

Not Evaluated

Pale False Mannagrass

Torreyochloa pallida

Least Concern

Pale flax

Linum bienne

Not Evaluated

Scots pine blister rust

Cronartium pini

Not Evaluated

Sinewed Bush Lichen

Ramalina americana

Not Evaluated

Board Lichen

Trapeliopsis flexuosa

Least Concern

Double Dart

Graphiphora augur

Least Concern

Phoma blight

Epicoccum sorghinum

Not Evaluated

Lesser Rocktripe

Umbilicaria muhlenbergii

Not Evaluated

Two-Colored Bolete

Baorangia bicolor

Not Evaluated

Shot hole borer fungus

Paracremonium pembeum

Not Evaluated

Sour Gold-Pored Bolete

Aureoboletus auriporus

Not Evaluated

Golden Coincap

Cyptotrama chrysopepla

Not Evaluated

Red Gyroporus

Gyroporus purpurinus

Not Evaluated

Staph beetle

Sepedophilus testaceus

Least Concern

Staph beetle

Tachinus corticinus

Least Concern

Spider wasp

Auplopus carbonarius

Least Concern

Giant Candlewax Lichen

Ricasolia amplissima

Not Evaluated

Muhlenberg'S Stippleback Lichen

Dermatocarpon muhlenbergii

Not Evaluated

Fungus

Septoria passiflorae

Not Evaluated

Rove beetle

Autalia rivularis

Least Concern

Chicita'S Sea Storm Lichen

Cetrelia chicitae

Not Evaluated

Cranefly

Ormosia affinis

Not Evaluated

Ant

Technomyrmex difficilis

Not Evaluated

Anthomyiid fly

Delia coarctata

Not Evaluated

Dung fly

Lonchaea albitarsis

Not Evaluated

Aphid

Aphis urticata

Not Evaluated

Asian Jumpseed

Persicaria filiformis

Not Evaluated

pale-fruited nodding moss

Pohlia annotina

Endangered

Silver july croton

Croton argenteus

Not Evaluated

Pale galingale, Tall flatsedge

Cyperus eragrostis

Not Evaluated

Pale Great Bulrush

Schoenoplectus heterochaetus

Least Concern

Pale Green Sedge

Carex pallescens

Least Concern

Broom aphid

Aphis cytisorum

Not Evaluated

Staph beetle

Lordithon thoracicus

Least Concern

Pale madwort

Alyssum alyssoides

Extinct

Urn-fruit beauty-berry

Callicarpa macrophylla

Least Concern

Pale mottled willow moth

Caradrina clavipalpis

Least Concern

Yellow bird's-foot

Ornithopus pinnatus

Not Evaluated

veldt-grape

Cissus quadrangularis

Not Evaluated

Pale Oyster

Pleurotus pulmonarius

Least Concern

Pale Panicgrass

Dichanthelium xanthophysum

Not Evaluated

Clovenlip toadflax

Linaria bipartita

Not Evaluated

pale spruce gall adelgid

Adelges laricis

Not Evaluated

One-toothed silvan flat bark beetle

Silvanus unidentatus

Vulnerable

Staph beetle

Atheta deformis

Least Concern

Dung fly

Lonchaea deutschi

Not Evaluated

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