Table 1. Rare animals and plants tracked by the Natural Heritage Inventory Program that have been documented within the Coastal Zone.
Group |
Common Name | Scientific Name |
State Status |
Federal Status |
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Beetle |
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| Beach-Dune Tiger Beetle | Cicindela hirticollis rhodensis | SC/N | |||
| A Water Scavenger Beetle | Cymbiodyta acuminata | * | SC/N | ||
Bird |
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| Henslow's Sparrow | Ammodramus henslowii | THR | |||
| Long-Eared Owl | Asio otus | SC/M | |||
| Pine Siskin | Carduelis pinus | SC/M | |||
| Swainson's Thrush | Catharus ustulatus | SC/M | |||
| Evening Grosbeak | Coccothraustes vespertinus | SC/M | |||
| Black-Throated Blue Warbler | Dendroica caerulescens | SC/M | |||
| Cape May Warbler | Dendroica tigrina | SC/M | |||
| Yellow-Bellied Flycatcher | Empidonax flaviventris | SC/M | |||
| Acadian Flycatcher | Empidonax virescens | THR | |||
| Merlin | Falco columbarius | SC/M | |||
| Connecticut Warbler | Oporornis agilis | SC/M | |||
| Gray Jay | Perisoreus canadensis | SC/M | |||
| Barn Owl | Tyto alba | END | |||
| Tennessee Warbler | Vermivora peregrina | SC/M | |||
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | * | THR | ||
| Great Blue Heron | Ardea herodias | * | SC/M | ||
| Lesser Scaup | Aythya affinis | * | SC/M | ||
| Redhead | Aythya americana | * | SC/M | ||
| American Bittern | Botaurus lentiginosus | * | SC/M | ||
| Common Goldeneye | Bucephala clangula | * | SC/M | ||
| Red-Shouldered Hawk | Buteo lineatus | * | THR | ||
| Piping Plover | Charadrius melodus | * | END | LE | |
| Black Tern | Chlidonias niger | * | SC/M | ||
| Northern Harrier | Circus cyaneus | * | SC/M | ||
| Yellow Rail | Coturnicops noveboracensis | * | THR | ||
| Snowy Egret | Egretta thula | * | END | ||
| Common Moorhen | Gallinula chloropus | * | SC/M | ||
| Common Loon | Gavia immer | * | SC/M | ||
| Bald Eagle | Haliaeetus leucocephalus | * | SC/FL | "LT,PD" | |
| Least Bittern | Ixobrychus exilis | * | SC/M | ||
| Common Merganser | Mergus merganser | * | SC/M | ||
| Red-Breasted Merganser | Mergus serrator | * | SC/M | ||
| Black-Crowned Night-Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | * | SC/M | ||
| Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | * | THR | ||
| American White Pelican | Pelecanus erythrorhynchos | * | SC/M | ||
| Red-Necked Grebe | Podiceps grisegena | * | END | ||
| Louisiana Waterthrush | Seiurus motacilla | * | SC/M | ||
| Caspian Tern | Sterna caspia | * | END | ||
| Forster's Tern | Sterna forsteri | * | END | ||
| Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | * | END | ||
| Hooded Warbler | Wilsonia citrina | * | THR | ||
Bug |
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| A Water Measurer | Hydrometra martini | * | SC/N | ||
Butterfly |
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| Mottled Dusky Wing | Erynnis martialis | SC/N | |||
| Broad-Winged Skipper | Poanes viator | SC/N | |||
| Bog Fritillary | Boloria eunomia | * | SC/N | ||
| Swamp Metalmark | Calephelis muticum | * | END | ||
| Two-Spotted Skipper | Euphyes bimacula | * | SC/N | ||
| Dion Skipper | Euphyes dion | * | SC/N | ||
| Dorcas Copper | Lycaena dorcas | * | SC/N | ||
| Bog Copper | Lycaena epixanthe | * | SC/N | ||
| Mulberry Wing | Poanes massasoit | * | SC/N | ||
Caddisfly |
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| A Bizarre Caddisfly | Lepidostoma libum | * | SC/N | ||
Dragonfly |
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| Lake Darner | Aeshna eremita | * | SC/N | ||
| Green-Striped Darner | Aeshna verticalis | * | SC/N | ||
| Arrowhead Spiketail | Cordulegaster obliqua | * | SC/N | ||
| Swamp Darner | Epiaeschna heros | * | SC/N | ||
| Amber-Winged Spreadwing | Lestes eurinus | * | SC/N | ||
| Ski-Tailed Emerald | Somatochlora elongata | * | SC/N | ||
| Forcipate Emerald | Somatochlora forcipata | * | SC/N | ||
| Hine's Emerald | Somatochlora hineana | * | END | LE | |
| Black Meadowhawk | Sympetrum danae | * | SC/N | ||
| Violet-Masked Glider | Tramea carolina | * | SC/N | ||
Fish |
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| Lake Sturgeon | Acipenser fulvescens | * | SC/H | ||
| American Eel | Anguilla rostrata | * | SC/N | ||
| Bloater | Coregonus hoyi | * | SC/H | ||
| Least Darter | Etheostoma microperca | * | SC/N | ||
| Banded Killifish | Fundulus diaphanus | * | SC/N | ||
| Longear Sunfish | Lepomis megalotis | * | THR | ||
| Redfin Shiner | Lythrurus umbratilis | * | THR | ||
| Greater Redhorse | Moxostoma valenciennesi | * | THR | ||
Frog |
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| Blanchard's Cricket Frog | Acris crepitans blanchardi | * | END | ||
| Bullfrog | Rana catesbeiana | * | SC/H | ||
Grasshopper |
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| Blue-Legged Grasshopper | Melanoplus flavidus | SC/N | |||
| Lake Huron Locust | Trimerotropis huroniana | END | |||
| Seaside Grasshopper | Trimerotropis maritima | SC/N | |||
Leafhopper |
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| Red-Tailed Prairie Leafhopper | Aflexia rubranura | END | |||
Mammal |
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| Northern Myotis | Myotis septentrionalis | SC/N | |||
| Pigmy Shrew | Sorex hoyi | * | SC/N | ||
Moth |
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| Oithona Tiger Moth | Grammia oithona | SC/N | |||
| Phyllira Tiger Moth | Grammia phyllira | SC/N | |||
| An Owlet Moth | Macrochilo bivittata | SC/N | |||
| Liatris Borer Moth | Papaipema beeriana | * | SC/N | ||
| Silphium Borer Moth | Papaipema silphii | * | END | ||
Other |
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| Bird Rookery | SC | ||||
| Migratory Bird Concentration Site | SC | ||||
Plant |
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| Striped Maple | Acer pensylvanicum | SC | |||
| Climbing Fumitory | Adlumia fungosa | SC | |||
| Roundstem Foxglove | Agalinis gattingeri | THR | |||
| Pale False Foxglove | Agalinis skinneriana | END | |||
| Prairie Milkweed | Asclepias sullivantii | THR | |||
| Maidenhair Spleenwort | Asplenium trichomanes | SC | |||
| Cooper's Milkvetch | Astragalus neglectus | END | |||
| Prairie Dunewort | Botrychium campestre | END | |||
| Moonwort Grape-Fern | Botrychium lunaria | END | |||
| Mingan's Moonwort | Botrychium minganense | SC | |||
| Spoon-Leaf Moonwort | Botrychium spathulatum | SC | |||
| Prairie Indian Plantain | Cacalia tuberosa | THR | |||
| American Sea-Rocket | Cakile edentula | SC | |||
| Low Calamint | Calamintha arkansana | SC | |||
| Sand Reed-Grass | Calamovilfa longifolia var magna | THR | |||
| Cuckooflower | Cardamine pratensis | SC | |||
| Beautiful Sedge | Carex concinna | THR | |||
| Handsome Sedge | Carex formosa | THR | |||
| Smooth Black Sedge | Carex nigra | SC | |||
| Richardson Sedge | Carex richardsonii | SC | |||
| Dune Thistle | Cirsium pitcheri | THR | LT | ||
| Crinkled Hairgrass | Deschampsia flexuosa | SC | |||
| Thickspike | Elymus lanceolatus ssp psammophilus | THR | |||
| Seaside Spurge | Euphorbia polygonifolia | SC | |||
| Western Fescue | Festuca occidentalis | THR | |||
| Yellow Gentian | Gentiana alba | THR | |||
| Northern Comandra | Geocaulon lividum | END | |||
| Limestone Oak Fern | Gymnocarpium robertianum | SC | |||
| Dwarf Lake Iris | Iris lacustris | THR | LT | ||
| Large-Flowered Ground-Cherry | Leucophysalis grandiflora | SC | |||
| Broad-Leaved Twayblade | Listera convallarioides | THR | |||
| American Gromwell | Lithospermum latifolium | SC | |||
| Fly Honeysuckle | Lonicera involucrata | END | |||
| Fir Clubmoss | Lycopodium selago | SC | |||
| Indian Cucumber-Root | Medeola virginiana | SC | |||
| Clustered Broomrape | Orobanche fasciculata | THR | |||
| One-Flowered Broomrape | Orobanche uniflora | SC | |||
| Chilean Sweet Cicely | Osmorhiza chilensis | SC | |||
| Small-Flower Grass-Of-Parnassus | Parnassia parviflora | END | |||
| Pale Beardtongue | Penstemon pallidus | SC | |||
| Pale Green Orchid | Platanthera flava var herbiola | THR | |||
| Hooker Orchis | Platanthera hookeri | SC | |||
| Large Roundleaf Orchid | Platanthera orbiculata | SC | |||
| Braun's Holly-Fern | Polystichum braunii | THR | |||
| Bird's-Eye Primrose | Primula mistassinica | SC | |||
| Giant Pinedrops | Pterospora andromedea | END | |||
| Small Yellow Water Crowfoot | Ranunculus gmelinii | END | |||
| Northern Black Currant | Ribes hudsonianum | SC | |||
| Canada Gooseberry | Ribes oxyacanthoides | THR | |||
| Sand Dune Willow | Salix cordata | END | |||
| Tea-Leaved Willow | Salix planifolia | THR | |||
| Tufted Club-Rush | Scirpus cespitosus | THR | |||
| Torrey's Bulrush | Scirpus torreyi | SC | |||
| Heart-Leaved Skullcap | Scutellaria ovata | SC | |||
| Low Spike-Moss | Selaginella selaginoides | END | |||
| Bluestem Goldenrod | Solidago caesia | END | |||
| Sticky Goldenrod | Solidago simplex var gillmanii | THR | |||
| White Mandarin | Streptopus amplexifolius | SC | |||
| Small-Flowered Woolly Bean | Strophostyles leiosperma | SC | |||
| Lake Huron Tansy | Tanacetum huronense | END | |||
| Reflexed Trillium | Trillium recurvatum | SC | |||
| Purple False Oats | Trisetum melicoides | END | |||
| Narrow False Oats | Trisetum spicatum | THR | |||
| Northern Wild-Raisin | Viburnum cassinoides | SC | |||
| Smooth Black-Haw | Viburnum prunifolium | SC | |||
| Long-Spur Violet | Viola rostrata | SC | |||
| Round-Leaved Orchis | Amerorchis rotundifolia | * | THR | ||
| Swamp-Pink | Arethusa bulbosa | * | SC | ||
| Lake-Cress | Armoracia lacustris | * | END | ||
| Slim-Stem Small-Reedgrass | Calamagrostis stricta | * | SC | ||
| Autumnal Water-Starwort | Callitriche hermaphroditica | * | SC | ||
| Floating Marsh-Marigold | Caltha natans | * | END | ||
| Fairy Slipper | Calypso bulbosa | * | THR | ||
| Assiniboine Sedge | Carex assiniboinensis | * | SC | ||
| Hair-Like Sedge | Carex capillaris | * | SC | ||
| Crawe Sedge | Carex crawei | * | SC | ||
| Coast Sedge | Carex exilis | * | THR | ||
| Elk Sedge | Carex garberi | * | THR | ||
| Northern Bog Sedge | Carex gynocrates | * | SC | ||
| Shore Sedge | Carex lenticularis | * | THR | ||
| Livid Sedge | Carex livida var radicaulis | * | SC | ||
| False Hop Sedge | Carex lupuliformis | * | END | ||
| Michaux Sedge | Carex michauxiana | * | THR | ||
| Many-Headed Sedge | Carex sychnocephala | * | SC | ||
| Sparse-Flowered Sedge | Carex tenuiflora | * | SC | ||
| Sheathed Sedge | Carex vaginata | * | SC | ||
| Ram's-Head Lady's-Slipper | Cypripedium arietinum | * | THR | ||
| Small Yellow Lady's-Slipper | Cypripedium parviflorum | * | SC | ||
| Showy Lady's-Slipper | Cypripedium reginae | * | SC | ||
| Tufted Hairgrass | Deschampsia cespitosa | * | SC | ||
| English Sundew | Drosera anglica | * | THR | ||
| Slenderleaf Sundew | Drosera linearis | * | THR | ||
| Flat-Stemmed Spike-Rush | Eleocharis compressa | * | SC | ||
| Spike-Rush | Eleocharis mamillata | * | SC | ||
| Slender Spike-Rush | Eleocharis nitida | * | END | ||
| Capitate Spikerush | Eleocharis olivacea | * | SC | ||
| Few-Flower Spikerush | Eleocharis quinqueflora | * | SC | ||
| Robbins Spikerush | Eleocharis robbinsii | * | SC | ||
| Marsh Willow-Herb | Epilobium palustre | * | SC | ||
| Downy Willow-Herb | Epilobium strictum | * | SC | ||
| Marsh Horsetail | Equisetum palustre | * | SC | ||
| Variegated Horsetail | Equisetum variegatum | * | SC | ||
| Russet Cotton-Grass | Eriophorum chamissonis | * | SC | ||
| Hairy Fimbristylis | Fimbristylis puberula | * | END | ||
| Marsh Bedstraw | Galium palustre | * | SC | ||
| Lesser Fringed Gentian | Gentianopsis procera | * | SC | ||
| Vasey Rush | Juncus vaseyi | * | SC | ||
| Marsh Blazing Star | Liatris spicata | * | SC | ||
| Auricled Twayblade | Listera auriculata | * | END | ||
| White Adder's-Mouth | Malaxis brachypoda | * | SC | ||
| Adder's-Tongue | Ophioglossum pusillum | * | SC | ||
| Marsh Grass-Of-Parnassus | Parnassia palustris | * | THR | ||
| Arrow-Leaved Sweet-Coltsfoot | Petasites sagittatus | * | THR | ||
| Smooth Phlox | Phlox glaberrima ssp interior | * | END | ||
| Heart-Leaved Plantain | Plantago cordata | * | END | ||
| Leafy White Orchis | Platanthera dilatata | * | SC | ||
| Prairie White-Fringed Orchid | Platanthera leucophaea | * | END | LT | |
| Pink Milkwort | Polygala incarnata | * | END | ||
| Seaside Crowfoot | Ranunculus cymbalaria | * | THR | ||
| Brown Beakrush | Rhynchospora fusca | * | SC | ||
| Whip Nutrush | Scleria triglomerata | * | SC | ||
| Low Nutrush | Scleria verticillata | * | SC | ||
| Marsh Ragwort | Senecio congestus | * | SC | ||
| Ohio Goldenrod | Solidago ohioensis | * | SC | ||
| Northern Bur-Reed | Sparganium glomeratum | * | THR | ||
| Waxleaf Meadowrue | Thalictrum revolutum | * | SC | ||
| Veined Meadowrue | Thalictrum venulosum | * | SC | ||
| Sticky False-Asphodel | Tofieldia glutinosa | * | THR | ||
| Common Bog Arrow-Grass | Triglochin maritima | * | SC | ||
| Slender Bog Arrow-Grass | Triglochin palustris | * | SC | ||
| Hidden-Fruited Bladderwort | Utricularia geminiscapa | * | SC | ||
| Northeastern Bladderwort | Utricularia resupinata | * | SC | ||
Salamander |
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| Four-Toed Salamander | Hemidactylium scutatum | * | SC/H | ||
Snail |
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| Pleistocene Catinella | Catinella exile | SC/N | |||
| A Land Snail | Catinella gelida | SC/N | |||
| Sculpted Glyph | Glyphyalinia rhoadsi | SC/N | |||
| Brilliant Granule | Guppya sterkii | SC/N | |||
| Cherrystone Drop | Hendersonia occulta | THR | |||
| Dentate Supercoil | Paravitrea multidentata | SC/N | |||
| White-Lip Dagger | Pupoides albilabris | SC/N | |||
| Black Striate | Striatura ferrea | SC/N | |||
| Eightfold Pinecone | Strobilops affinis | SC/N | |||
| A Land Snail | Succinea bakeri | SC/N | |||
| Oval Vallonia | Vallonia excentrica | SC/N | |||
| Tapered Vertigo | Vertigo elatior | SC/N | |||
| Midwest Pleistocene Vertigo | Vertigo hubrichti | END | |||
| Iowa Pleistocene Vertigo | Vertigo iowaensis | SC/N | |||
| Six-Whorl Vertigo | Vertigo morsei | SC/N | |||
| Deep-Throated Vertigo | Vertigo nylanderi | SC/N | |||
| Boreal Top | Zoogenetes harpa | SC/N | |||
Snake |
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| Northern Ringneck Snake | Diadophis punctatus edwardsii | SC/H | |||
| Butler's Gartersnake | Thamnophis butleri | THR | |||
Turtle |
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| Wood Turtle | Clemmys insculpta | * | THR | ||
| Blanding's Turtle | Emydoidea blandingii | * | THR |
Last Revised: October 10, 2005
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