Eastern Region Rare Plant Profiles
This list includes species proposed or listed as threatened or endangered (TEP) by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS), under the Endangered Species Act (ESA); and/or a plant must be ranked as Critically Imperiled by NatureServe; that is, ranked as G1 and/or T1 using NatureServe's ranking criteria; and, are known to currently exist in at least one location on national forests or national grasslands. About the Rare Plant Profiles…
States
- Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin
Threatened, Endangered, and Proposed (TEP) Plant Profiles
- Arabis serotina, shale barren rock-cress
- Asclepias meadii, Mead’s milkweed
- Asplenium scolopendrium var. americanum, American hart's-tongue fern
- Cirsium pitcheri, Pitcher’s thistle
- Dalea foliosa, leafy prairie-clover
- Iris lacustris, dwarf lake iris
- Isotria medeoloides, small whorled pogonia
- Oxytropis campestris var. chartacea, Fassett's locoweed
- Platanthera leucophaea, eastern prairie fringed orchid
- Solidago houghtonii, Houghton’s goldenrod (also known as, Oligoneuron houghtonii)
- Spiraea virginiana, Virginia spiraea
- Tetraneuris herbacea, lakeside daisy (also known as, Hymenoxys herbacea)
- Trifolium stoloniferum, running buffalo clover