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Endangerd Species In Illinois
Illinois has 25 threatened and endangered plant and animal species. |
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Animals -- 16 |
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| Status | Listing |
| E | Amphipod, Illinois cave ( Gammarus acherondytes) |
| E | Bat, gray ( Myotis grisescens) |
| E | Bat, Indiana ( Myotis sodalis) |
| E | Butterfly, Karner blue ( Lycaeides melissa samuelis) |
| E | Dragonfly, Hine's emerald ( Somatochlora hineana) |
| T | Eagle, bald (lower 48 States) ( Haliaeetus leucocephalus) |
| E | Fanshell ( Cyprogenia stegaria) |
| E | Higgins eye ( Lampsilis higginsii) |
| E | Mucket, pink ( Lampsilis abrupta) |
| E | Pimpleback, orangefoot ( Plethobasus cooperianus) |
| E | Plover, piping (Great Lakes watershed) ( Charadrius melodus) |
| E | Pocketbook, fat ( Potamilus capax) |
| E | Puma, eastern ( Puma concolor couguar) |
| E | Snail, Iowa Pleistocene ( Discus macclintocki) |
| E | Sturgeon, pallid ( Scaphirhynchus albus) |
| E | Tern, least (interior pop.) ( Sterna antillarum) |
Plants -- 9 |
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| Status | Listing |
| T | Potato-bean, Price's ( Apios priceana) |
| T | Milkweed, Mead's ( Asclepias meadii) |
| T | Aster, decurrent false ( Boltonia decurrens) |
| T | Thistle, Pitcher's ( Cirsium pitcheri) |
| E | Prairie-clover, leafy ( Dalea foliosa) |
| T | Daisy, lakeside ( Hymenoxys herbacea) |
| T | Pogonia, small whorled ( Isotria medeoloides) |
| T | Bush-clover, prairie ( Lespedeza leptostachya) |
| T | Orchid, eastern prairie fringed ( Platanthera leucophaea) |
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