Threatened Illinois Species

• Pseudacris streckeri--Illinois chorus frog
• Hemidactylium scutatum--Four-toed salamander

• Casmerodius albus--Great egret
• Podilymbus podiceps--Pied-billed grebe
• Phalacrocorax auritus--Double-crested coramorant
• Nyctanassa violacea--Yellow-crowned night heron
• Rallus elegans--King rail
• Gallinula chloropus--Common moorhen
• Certhia americana--Brown creeper
• Catharus fuscescens--Veery
• Lanius ludovicianus--Loggerhead shrike

• Oryzomys palustris--Rice rat
• Ochrotomys nuttalli--Golden mouse
• Lynx rufus--Bobcat

• Ellipsaria lineolata--Butterfly mussel
• Elliptio crassidens--Elephant ear
• Elliptio dilatata--Spike
• Fusconaia ebena--Ebonyshell

• Gammarus bousfieldi--Bousfieldi's amphipod

• Aflexia rubranura--Redveined prairie leafhopper
• Hesperia ottoe--Ottoe skipper
• Hesperia metea--Cobweb skipper
• Nannothemis bella--Elfin skimmer

• Lampetra aepyptera--Least brook lamprey

• Coregonus artedi--Cisco
• Notropis chalybaeus--Ironcolor shiner
• Moxostoma carinatum--River redhorse
• Catostomus catostomus--Longnose sucker
• Fundulus diaphanus--Banded killifish
• Lepomis punctatus--Spotted sunfish
• Lepomis symmetricus--Bantam sunfish

• Acalypha deamii--Large-seeded mercury
• Agalinis skinneriana--Pale false foxglove
• Aristolochia serpentaria--Virgina snakeroot
• Asclepias stenophylla--Narrow-leaved green milkweed
• Aster frucatus--Forked aster
• Aster schreberi--Schreber's aster
• Aster undulatus--Wavy-leaved aster
• Besseya bullii--Kitten tails
• Boltonia decurrens--Decurrent false aster
• Cakile edentula--Sea rocket
• Calamagrostis insperata--Bluejoint grass
• Carex crawei--Crawe's sedge
• Carex laxiculmis--Spreading sedge
• Carex rostrata--Beaked sedge
• Cimicifuga rubifolia--Black cohosh
• Chamaedaphne calyculata--Leatherleaf
• Cirsium hillii--Hill's thistle
• Cirsium pitcheri--Pitcher's thistle
• Corallorhiza maculata--Spotted coral-root orchid
• Corydalis curvisiliqua--Large-bracted corydalis
• Cyperus grayioides--Umbrella sedge
• Drosera intermedia--Narrow-leaved sundew
• Eleocharis rostellata--Beaked spikerush
• Epilobium strictum--Downy willow herb
• Filipendula rubra--Queen-of-the-prarie
• Galium labradoricum--Bog bedstraw
• Helianthus angustifolius--Narrow-leaved sunflower
• Juniperus communis--Ground juniper
• Larix laricina--Tamarack
• Lathyrus ochroleuscus--Pale vetchling
• Liatris scariosa--Blazing star
• Matelea obliqua--Climbing milkweed
• Melanthium virginicum--Bunchflower
• Oryzopsis racemosa--Rice grass
• Polygonatum pubescens--Downy solomon's seal
• Quercus phellos--Willow oak
• Quercus prinus--Rock chestnut oak
• Ranunculus rhomboideus--Prairie buttercup
• Rhynchospora alba--Beaked rush
• Rubus pubescens--Dwarf raspberry
• Salvia azurea--Blue sage
• Sambucus pubens--Red-berried elder
• Scirpus polyphyllus--Bulrush
• Solidago sciaphila--Cliff goldenrod
• Styrax americana--Storax
• Sullivantia renifolia--Sullivantia
• Thuja occidentalis--Arbor vitae
• Tofieldia glutinosa--False asphodel
• Tomanthera auriculata--Ear-leafed foxglove
• Trichomanes boschianum--Filmy fern
• Trientalis borealis--Star-flower
• Trillium viride--Green trillium
• Veratrum woodii--False hellebore
• Urtica chamaedryoides--Nettle
• Veronica scutellata--Marsh speedwell
• Viola conspersa--Dog violet

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  Reptiles

  • Clonophis kirklandi--Kirkland's snake
  • Crotalus horridus--Timber rattlesnake
  • Elaphe guttata emoryi--Great plains rat snake
  • Macroclemys temmincki--Alligator snapping turtle
  • Masticophis flagellum--Coach whip
  • Nerodia cyclopion--Green water snake

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