Iowa Admin. Code r. 571-77.3 - Endangered, threatened, and special concern plants
The natural resource commission, in consultation with scientists with special knowledge and experience, determined the following plant species to be endangered, threatened, or of special concern in Iowa.
(1)
Endangered plant
species:
| COMMON NAME | SCIENTIFIC NAME | ||
| Pale false foxglove | Agalinus skinneriana | ||
| Blue giant-hyssop | Agastache foeniculum | ||
| Bearberry | Arctostaphylos uva-ursi | ||
| Black chokeberry | Aronia melanocarpa | ||
| Eared milkweed | Asclepias engelmanniana | ||
| Mead's milkweed | Asclepias meadii | ||
| Narrow-leaved milkweed | Asclepias stenophylla | ||
| Ricebutton aster | Aster dumosus | ||
| Large-leaved aster | Aster macrophyllus | ||
| Schreber's aster | Aster schreberi | ||
| Fern-leaved false foxglove | Aureolaria pedicularia | ||
| Matricary grape fern | Botrychium matricariifolium | ||
| Poppy mallow | Callirhoe triangulata | ||
| Cordroot sedge | Carex chordorrhiza | ||
| Large-bracted corydalis | Corydalis curvisiliqua | ||
| Silky prairie-clover | Dalea villosa | ||
| Swamp-loosestrife | Decodon verticillatus | ||
| Northern panic-grass | Dichanthelium boreale | ||
| Roundleaved sundew | Drosera rotundifolia | ||
| False mermaid | Floerkea proserpinacoides | ||
| Bog bedstraw | Galium labradoricum | ||
| Povertygrass | Hudsonia tomentosa | ||
| Northern St. Johnswort | Hypericum boreale | ||
| Pineweed | Hypericum gentianoides | ||
| Winterberry | Ilex verticillata | ||
| Black-based quillwort | Isoetes melanopoda | ||
| Water-willow | Justicia americana | ||
| Dwarf dandelion | Krigia virginica | ||
| Cleft conobea | Leucospora multifida | ||
| Whiskbroom parsley | Lomatium foeniculaceum | ||
| Running clubmoss | Lycopodium clavatum | ||
| Bog clubmoss | Lycopodium inundatum | ||
| Annual skeletonweed | Lygodesmia rostrata | ||
| Water marigold | Megalodonta beckii | ||
| Northern lungwort | Mertensia paniculata | ||
| Bigroot pricklypear | Opuntia macrorhiza | ||
| Clustered broomrape | Orobanche fasciculata | ||
| Ricegrass | Oryzopsis pungens | ||
| Cinnamon fern | Osmunda cinnamomea | ||
| Purple cliffbrake | Pellaea atropurpurea | ||
| Arrow arum | Peltandra virginica | ||
| Pale green orchid | Platanthera flava | ||
| Eastern prairie fringed orchid | Platanthera leucophaea | ||
| Clammyweed | Polansia jamesii | ||
| Crossleaf milkwort | Polygala cruciata | ||
| Purple milkwort | Polygala polygama | ||
| Jointweed | Polygonella articulata | ||
| Douglas' knotweed | Polygonum douglasii | ||
| Three-toothed cinquefoil | Potentilla tridentata | ||
| Canada plum | Prunus nigra | ||
| Frenchgrass | Psoralea onobrychis | ||
| Pink shinleaf | Pyrola asarifolia | ||
| Prickly rose | Rosa acicularis | ||
| Meadow spikemoss | Selaginella eclipes | ||
| Rough-leaved goldenrod | Solidago patula | ||
| Bog goldenrod | Solidago uliginosa | ||
| Yellow-lipped ladies-tresses | Spiranthes lucida | ||
| Pickering morning-glory | Stylisma pickeringii | ||
| Rough-seeded fameflower | Talinum rugospermum | ||
| Waxy meadowrue | Thalictrum revolutum | ||
| Long beechfern | Thelypteris phegopteris | ||
| Large-leaved violet | Viola incognita | ||
| Rusty woodsia | Woodsia ilvensis | ||
| Yellow-eyed grass | Xyris torta | ||
| 77.3(2) Threatened plant species: | |||
| Northern wild monkshood | Aconitum noveboracense | ||
| Round-stemmed false foxglove | Agalinus gattingerii | ||
| Nodding wild onion | Allium cernuum | ||
| Fragrant false indigo | Amorpha nana | ||
| Virginia snakeroot | Aristolochia serpentaria | ||
| Woolly milkweed | Asclepias lanuginosa | ||
| Showy milkweed | Asclepias speciosa | ||
| Forked aster | Aster furcatus | ||
| Rush aster | Aster junciformis | ||
| Flax-leaved aster | Aster linariifolius | ||
| Water parsnip | Berula erecta | ||
| Kittentails | Besseya bullii | ||
| Bog birch | Betula pumila | ||
| Pagoda plant | Blephilia ciliata | ||
| Leathery grapefern | Botrychium multifidum | ||
| Little grapefern | Botrychium simplex | ||
| Sweet Indian-plantain | Cacalia suaveolens | ||
| Poppy mallow | Callirhoe alcaeoides | ||
| Pipsissewa | Chimaphila umbellata | ||
| Golden saxifrage | Chrysosplenium iowense | ||
| Day flower | Commelina erecta | ||
| Spotted coralroot | Corallorhiza maculata | ||
| Bunchberry | Cornus canadensis | ||
| Golden corydalis | Corydalis aurea | ||
| Pink corydalis | Corydalis sempervirens | ||
| Showy lady's-slipper | Cypripedium reginae | ||
| Slim-leaved panic-grass | Dichanthelium linearifolium | ||
| Jeweled shooting star | Dodecatheon amethystinum | ||
| Glandular wood fern | Dryopteris intermedia | ||
| Marginal shield fern | Dryopteris marginalis | ||
| Woodland horsetail | Equisetum sylvaticum | ||
| Slender cottongrass | Eriophorum gracile | ||
| Yellow trout lily | Erythronium americanum | ||
| Queen of the prairie | Filipendula rubra | ||
| Blue ash | Fraxinus quadrangulata | ||
| Black huckleberry | Gaylussacia baccata | ||
| Oak fern | Gymnocarpium dryopteris | ||
| Green violet | Hybanthus concolor | ||
| Twinleaf | Jeffersonia diphylla | ||
| Creeping juniper | Juniperus horizontalis | ||
| Intermediate pinweed | Lechea intermedia | ||
| Hairy pinweed | Lechea villosa | ||
| Prairie bush clover | Lespedeza leptostachya | ||
| Twinflower | Linnaea borealis | ||
| Western parsley | Lomatium orientale | ||
| Wild lupine | Lupinus perennis | ||
| Tree clubmoss | Lycopodium dendroideum | ||
| Rock clubmoss | Lycopodium porophilum | ||
| Hairy waterclover | Marsilea vestita | ||
| Bog buckbean | Menyanthes trifoliata | ||
| Winged monkeyflower | Mimulus alatus | ||
| Yellow monkeyflower | Mimulus glabratus | ||
| Partridge berry | Mitchella repens | ||
| Pinesap | Monotropa hypopithys | ||
| Small sundrops | Oenothera perennis | ||
| Little pricklypear | Opuntia fragilis | ||
| Royal fern | Osmunda regalis | ||
| Philadelphia panic-grass | Panicum philadelphicum | ||
| Slender beardtongue | Penstemon gracilis | ||
| Hooker's orchid | Platanthera hookeri | ||
| Northern bog orchid | Platanthera hyperborea | ||
| Western prairie fringed orchid | Platanthera praeclara | ||
| Purple fringed orchid | Platanthera psycodes | ||
| Pink milkwort | Polygala incarnata | ||
| Silverweed | Potentilla anserina | ||
| Shrubby cinquefoil | Potentilla fruticosa | ||
| Pennsylvania cinquefoil | Potentilla pensylvanica | ||
| One-sided shinleaf | Pyrola secunda | ||
| Meadow beauty | Rhexia virginica | ||
| Beaked rush | Rhynchospora capillacea | ||
| Northern currant | Ribes hudsonianum | ||
| Shining willow | Salix lucida | ||
| Bog willow | Salix pedicellaris | ||
| Low nutrush | Scleria verticillata | ||
| Buffaloberry | Sheperdia argentea | ||
| Scarlet globemallow | Sphaeralcea coccinea | ||
| Slender ladies-tresses | Spiranthes lacera | ||
| Oval ladies-tresses | Spiranthes ovalis | ||
| Hooded ladies-tresses | Spiranthes romanzoffiana | ||
| Spring ladies-tresses | Spiranthes vernalis | ||
| Rosy twisted-stalk | Streptopus roseus | ||
| Fameflower | Talinum parviflorum | ||
| Large arrowgrass | Triglochin maritimum | ||
| Small arrowgrass | Triglochin palustre | ||
| Low sweet blueberry | Vaccinium angustifolium | ||
| Velvetleaf blueberry | Vaccinium myrtilloides | ||
| False hellebore | Veratrum woodii | ||
| Kidney-leaved violet | Viola renifolia | ||
| Oregon woodsia | Woodsia oregana | ||
| 77.3(3) Special concern plant species: | |||
| Balsam fir | Abies balsamea | ||
| Three-seeded mercury | Acalypha gracilens | ||
| Three-seeded mercury | Acalypha ostryifolia | ||
| Mountain maple | Acer spicatum | ||
| Moschatel | Adoxa moschatellina | ||
| Water plantain | Alisma gramineum | ||
| Wild onion | Allium mutabile | ||
| Amaranth | Amaranthus arenicola | ||
| Lanceleaf ragweed | Ambrosia bidentata | ||
| Saskatoon serviceberry | Amelanchier alnifolia | ||
| Low serviceberry | Amelanchier sanguinea | ||
| Raccoon grape | Ampelopsis cordata | ||
| Pearly everlasting | Anaphalis margaritacea | ||
| Sand bluestem | Andropogon hallii | ||
| Broomsedge | Andropogon virginicus | ||
| Purple angelica | Angelica atropurpurea | ||
| Purple rockcress | Arabis divaricarpa | ||
| Green rockcress | Arabis missouriensis | ||
| Lakecress | Armoracia lacustris | ||
| Fringed sagewort | Artemisia frigida | ||
| Common mugwort | Artemisia vulgaris | ||
| Pawpaw | Asimina triloba | ||
| Curved aster | Aster falcatus | ||
| Hairy aster | Aster pubentior | ||
| Prairie aster | Aster turbinellus | ||
| Standing milkvetch | Astragalus adsurgens | ||
| Bent milkvetch | Astragalus distortus | ||
| Missouri milkvetch | Astragalus missouriensis | ||
| Blue wild indigo | Baptisia australis | ||
| Yellow wild indigo | Baptisia tinctoria | ||
| Prairie moonwort | Botrychium campestre | ||
| Watershield | Brasenia schreberi | ||
| Buffalograss | Buchloe dactyloides | ||
| Poppy mallow | Callirhoe papaver | ||
| Water-starwort | Callitriche heterophylla | ||
| Grass pink | Calopogon tuberosus | ||
| Low bindweed | Calystegia spithamaea | ||
| Clustered sedge | Carex aggregata | ||
| Back's sedge | Carex backii | ||
| Bush's sedge | Carex bushii | ||
| Carey's sedge | Carex careyana | ||
| Flowerhead sedge | Carex cephalantha | ||
| Field sedge | Carex conoidea | ||
| Crawe's sedge | Carex crawei | ||
| Fringed sedge | Carex crinita | ||
| Double sedge | Carex diandra | ||
| Douglas' sedge | Carex douglasii | ||
| Dry sedge | Carex foena | ||
| Thin sedge | Carex gracilescens | ||
| Delicate sedge | Carex leptalea | ||
| Mud sedge | Carex limosa | ||
| Hoplike sedge | Carex lupuliformis | ||
| Yellow sedge | Carex lurida | ||
| Intermediate sedge | Carex media | ||
| Backward sedge | Carex retroflexa | ||
| Richardson's sedge | Carex richardsonii | ||
| Rocky Mountain sedge | Carex saximontana | ||
| Sterile sedge | Carex sterilis | ||
| Soft sedge | Carex tenera | ||
| Deep green sedge | Carex tonsa | ||
| Tuckerman's sedge | Carex tuckermanii | ||
| Umbrella sedge | Carex umbellata | ||
| Wild oats | Chasmanthium latifolium | ||
| Pink turtlehead | Chelone obliqua | ||
| Fogg's goosefoot | Chenopodium foggii | ||
| Missouri goosefoot | Chenopodium missouriensis | ||
| Coast blite | Chenopodium rubrum | ||
| Bugbane | Cimicifuga racemosa | ||
| Hill's thistle | Cirsium hillii | ||
| Swamp thistle | Cirsium muticum | ||
| Wavy-leaved thistle | Cirsium undulatum | ||
| Western clematis | Clematis occidentalis | ||
| Blue-eyed Mary | Collinsia verna | ||
| Cancer-root | Conopholis americana | ||
| Fireberry hawthorn | Crataegus chrysocarpa | ||
| Red hawthorn | Crataegus coccinea | ||
| Two-fruited hawthorn | Crataegus disperma | ||
| Hawthorn | Crataegus pruinosa | ||
| Hawksbeard | Crepis runcinata | ||
| Prairie tea | Croton monanthogynus | ||
| Crotonopsis | Crotonopsis elliptica | ||
| Waxweed | Cuphea viscosissima | ||
| Dodder | Cuscuta indecora | ||
| Small white lady's-slipper | Cypripedium candidum | ||
| Carolina larkspur | Delphinium carolinianum | ||
| Sessile-leaved tick trefoil | Desmodium sessilifolium | ||
| Fingergrass | Digitaria filiformis | ||
| Buttonweed | Diodia teres | ||
| Purple coneflower | Echinacea purpurea | ||
| Waterwort | Elatine triandra | ||
| Purple spikerush | Eleocharis atropurpurea | ||
| Green spikerush | Eleocharis olivacea | ||
| Oval spikerush | Eleocharis ovata | ||
| Dwarf spikerush | Eleocharis parvula | ||
| Few-flowered spikerush | Eleocharis pauciflora | ||
| Wolf's spikerush | Eleocharis wolfii | ||
| Interrupted wildrye | Elymus interruptus | ||
| Dwarf scouring rush | Equisetum scirpoides | ||
| Ponygrass | Eragrostis reptans | ||
| Tall cottongrass | Eriophorum angustifolium | ||
| Tawny cottongrass | Eriophorum virginicum | ||
| Upland boneset | Eupatorium sessilifolium | ||
| Spurge | Euphorbia commutata | ||
| Missouri spurge | Euphorbia missurica | ||
| Slender fimbristylis | Fimbristylis autumnalis | ||
| Umbrella grass | Fuirena simplex | ||
| Rough bedstraw | Galium asprellum | ||
| Small fringed gentian | Gentianopsis procera | ||
| Northern cranesbill | Geranium bicknellii | ||
| Spring avens | Geum vernum | ||
| Early cudweed | Gnaphalium purpureum | ||
| Limestone oak fern | Gymnocarpium robertianum | ||
| Bitterweed | Helenium amarum | ||
| Mud plantain | Heteranthera limosa | ||
| Water stargrass | Heteranthera reniformis | ||
| Hairy goldenaster | Heterotheca villosa | ||
| Common mare's-tail | Hippuris vulgaris | ||
| Canadian St. Johnswort | Hypericum canadense | ||
| Drummond St. Johnswort | Hypericum drummondii | ||
| White morning glory | Ipomoea lacunosa | ||
| Sumpweed | Iva annua | ||
| Alpine rush | Juncus alpinus | ||
| Toad rush | Juncus bufonius | ||
| Soft rush | Juncus effusus | ||
| Green rush | Juncus greenii | ||
| Edged rush | Juncus marginatus | ||
| Vasey's rush | Juncus vaseyi | ||
| Potato dandelion | Krigia dandelion | ||
| Pinweed | Lechea racemulosa | ||
| Duckweed | Lemna perpusilla | ||
| Creeping bush clover | Lespedeza repens | ||
| Silvery bladder-pod | Lesquerella ludoviciana | ||
| Wild flax | Linum medium | ||
| Brook lobelia | Lobelia kalmii | ||
| False loosestrife | Ludwigia peploides | ||
| Crowfoot clubmoss | Lycopodium digitatum | ||
| Adder's-mouth orchid | Malaxis unifolia | ||
| Globe mallow | Malvastrum hispidum | ||
| Two-flowered melic-grass | Melica mutica | ||
| Ten-petaled blazingstar | Mentzelia decapetala | ||
| Millet grass | Milium effusum | ||
| Rock sandwort | Minuartia michauxii | ||
| Naked mitrewort | Mitella nuda | ||
| Scratchgrass | Muhlenbergia asperifolia | ||
| Water milfoil | Myriophyllum heterophyllum | ||
| Rough water milfoil | Myriophyllum pinnatum | ||
| Water milfoil | Myriophyllum verticillatum | ||
| Glade mallow | Napaea dioica | ||
| Showy evening primrose | Oenothera speciosa | ||
| Northern adders-tongue fern | Ophioglossum vulgatum | ||
| Louisiana broomrape | Orobanche ludoviciana | ||
| Mountain ricegrass | Oryzopsis asperifolia | ||
| Gattinger's panic-grass | Panicum gattingeri | ||
| White beardtongue | Penstemon albidus | ||
| Cobaea penstemon | Penstemon cobaea | ||
| Tube penstemon | Penstemon tubiflorus | ||
| Cleft phlox | Phlox bifida | ||
| Annual ground cherry | Physalis pubescens | ||
| Heart-leaved plantain | Plantago cordata | ||
| Wood orchid | Platanthera clavellata | ||
| Green fringed orchid | Platanthera lacera | ||
| Plains bluegrass | Poa arida | ||
| Chapman's bluegrass | Poa chapmaniana | ||
| Weak bluegrass | Poa languida | ||
| Bog bluegrass | Poa paludigena | ||
| Meadow bluegrass | Poa wolfii | ||
| Hairy Solomon's-seal | Polygonatum pubescens | ||
| Large-leaved pondweed | Potamogeton amplifolius | ||
| Ribbonleaf pondweed | Potamogeton epihydrus | ||
| White-stemmed pondweed | Potamogeton praelongus | ||
| Spiralled pondweed | Potamogeton spirillus | ||
| Tussock pondweed | Potamogeton strictifolius | ||
| Vasey's pondweed | Potamogeton vaseyi | ||
| Bird's-eye primrose | Primula mistassinica | ||
| Prionopsis | Prionopsis ciliata | ||
| Mermaid weed | Proserpinaca palustris | ||
| Dwarf cherry | Prunus besseyi | ||
| Hortulan plum | Prunus hortulana | ||
| Sand cherry | Prunus pumila | ||
| Lemon scurfpea | Psoralea lanceolata | ||
| Crowfoot | Ranunculus circinatus | ||
| Gmelin's crowfoot | Ranunculus gmelinii | ||
| Buckthorn | Rhamnus alnifolia | ||
| Dwarf sumac | Rhus copallina | ||
| Northern gooseberry | Ribes hirtellum | ||
| Yellow cress | Rorippa sinuata | ||
| Swamp rose | Rosa palustris | ||
| Tooth-cup | Rotala ramosior | ||
| Dewberry | Rubus hispidus | ||
| Western dock | Rumex occidentalis | ||
| Widgeon grass | Ruppia maritima | ||
| Prairie rose gentian | Sabatia campestris | ||
| Sage willow | Salix Candida | ||
| Sassafras | Sassafras albidum | ||
| Tumblegrass | Schedonnardus paniculatus | ||
| Scheuchzeria | Scheuchzeria palustris | ||
| Sensitive briar | Schrankia nuttallii | ||
| Hall's bulrush | Scirpus hallii | ||
| Prairie bulrush | Scirpus maritimus | ||
| Pedicelled bulrush | Scirpus pedicellatus | ||
| Smith's bulrush | Scirpus smithii | ||
| Torrey's bulrush | Scirpus torreyi | ||
| Veiny skullcap | Scutellaria nervosa | ||
| Wild stonecrop | Sedum ternatum | ||
| Rock spikemoss | Selaginella rupestris | ||
| Butterweed | Senecio glabellus | ||
| False golden ragwort | Senecio pseudaureus | ||
| Knotweed bristlegrass | Setaria geniculata | ||
| Virginia rockcress | Sibara virginica | ||
| Prairie dock | Silphium terebinthinaceum | ||
| Burreed | Sparganium androcladum | ||
| Great plains ladies-tresses | Spiranthes magnicamporum | ||
| Clandestine dropseed | Sporobolus clandestinus | ||
| Rough hedge-nettle | Stachys aspera | ||
| Needle-and-thread | Stipa comata | ||
| White coralberry | Symphoriocarpos albus | ||
| Eared false foxglove | Tomanthera auriculata | ||
| Spiderwort | Tradescantia virginiana | ||
| Humped bladderwort | Utricularia gibba | ||
| Flat-leaved bladderwort | Utricularia intermedia | ||
| Small bladderwort | Utricularia minor | ||
| Valerian | Valeriana edulis | ||
| American brookline | Veronica americana | ||
| Marsh speedwell | Veronica scutellata | ||
| Maple-leaved arrowwood | Viburnum acerifolium | ||
| Black arrowwood | Viburnum molle | ||
| Black haw | Viburnum prunifolium | ||
| Spurred violet | Viola adunca | ||
| Lance-leaved violet | Viola lanceolata | ||
| Macloskey's violet | Viola macloskeyi | ||
| Pale violet | Viola striata | ||
| Summer grape | Vitis aestivalis | ||
| Frost grape | Vitis vulpina | ||
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