Threatened and endangered Illinois wetland species

• Ambystoma platineum--silvery salamander--E
• Cryptobranchus alleganiensis--hellbender--E
• Desmognathus fuscus--Dusky salamander--E
• Hemidactylium scutatum--four-toed salamander--T
• Pseudacris streeckeri--Illinois chorus frog--T

• Asio flammeus--Short-eared owl--E
• Botaurus lentiginosus--American bittern--E
• Buteo linneatus--Red-shouldered hawk--E
• Casmerodius albus--Great egret--T
• Catharus fuscescens--Veery--T
• Certhia americana--Brown creeper--T
• Charadrius melodus--Piping plover--E
• Chlidonias niger--Black tern--E
• Circus cyaneus--Northern harrier--E
• Coturnicops noveboracensis--Yellow rail--E
• Egretta caerulea--Little blue heron--E
• Egretta thula--Snowy egret--E
• Gallinula chloropus--Common moorhen--T
• Grus canadensis--Sandhill crane--E
• Haliaeetus leucocephalus--Bald eagle--E
• Ictinia mississippiensis--Mississippi kite--E
• Ixobrychus exilis--Least bittern--E
• Laterallus jamaicensis--Black rail--E
• Nycticorax nycticorax--Black-crowned night heron--E
• Nyctanassa violacea--Yellow-crowned night heron--T
• Pandion haliaetus--Osprey--E
• Phalacrocorax auritus--Double-crested cormorant--T
• Phalaropus tricolor--Wilson's phalarope--E
• Podilymbus podiceps--Pied-billed grebe--T
• Rallus elegans--King rail--T
• Sterna antillarum--Least tern--E
• Sterna forsteri--Forster's tern--E
• Sterna hirundo--Common tern--E
• Thyromanes bewickii--Bewick's Wren--E
• Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus--Yellow-headed blackbird--E

• Myotis sodalis--Indiana Bat--E
• Myotis austroriparius--Southeastern myotis--E
• Myotis grisescens--Gray Bat--E
• Plecotus rafinesquii--Rafinesques's big-eared bat--E
• Oryzomys palustris--Rice rat--T
• Ochrotomys nuttalli--Golden mouse--T
• Lutra canadensis--River otter--E
• Lynx rufus--Bobcat--T

• Calephelis muticum--Swamp metalmark--E
• Nannothemis bella--Elfin skimmer dragonfly--T
• Somatochlora hineana--Hine's emerald dragonfly--E

• Lampetra aepyptera--Least brook lamprey--T

• Lepomis punctatus--Spotted sunfish--T
• Lepomis symmetricus--Bantam sunfish--T
• Notropis maculatus--Taillight shiner--E

• Alnus rugosa--Speckled adler--E
• Amelanchier interior--Shadbush--E
• Aristolochia serpentaria--Virginia snakeroot--T
• Aster furcatus--Forked aster--T
• Beckmannia syzigachne--American slough grass--E
• Bartonia paniculata--Screwstem--E
• Betula alleghaniensis--Yellow birch--E
• Boltonia decurrens--Decurrent false aster--T
• Calla palustris--Water arum--E
• Calopogon tuberosus--Grass pink orchid--E
• Cardamine pratensis--Cuckoo flower--E
• Carex alata--Winged sedge--E
• Carex--arkansana--sedge--E
• Carex aurea--Golden sedge--E
• Carex brunnescens--Brownish sedge--E
• Carex chordorrhiza--Cordroot sedge--E
• Carex canescens--Sedge--E
• Carex crawei--Crawe's sedge--T
• Carex crawfordii--Sedge--E
• Carex cryptolepis--sedge--E
• Carex disperma--Shortleaf sedge--E
• Carex decomposita--Cypress-knee sedge--E
• Carex intumescens--Swollen sedge--E
• Carex gigantea--Large sedge--E
• Carex oxylepis--Sharp-scaled sedge--E
• Carex oligosperma--Few-seeded sedge--E
• Carex reniformis--Reniform sedge--E
• Carex prasina--Drooping sedge--E
• Carex rostrata--Beaked sedge--E
• Carex trisperma--Three-seeded sedge--E
• Carex tuckermanii--Tuckerman's sedge--E
• Carex viridula--Little green sedge--E
• Chamaedaphne calyculata--Leatherleaf--T
• Cimicfuga racemosa--False bugbane--E
• Clematis crispa--Blue jasmine--E
• Clematis viorna--Leatherflower--E
• Conioselinum chinese--Hemlock parsley--E
• Cornus canadensis--Bunchberry--E
• Cynosciadium digitatum--Finger dog-shade--E
• Cypripedium calceolus--Small yellow lady's slipper--E
• Cypripedium acaule--Moccasin flower, Pink lady's slipper--E
• Cypripedium candidum--White lady's slipper--E
• Cypripedium reginae--Showy lady's slipper--E
• Drosera intermedia--Narrow-leaved sundew--T
• Drosera rotundifolia--Round-leaved sundew--E
• Dryopteris celsa--Log fern--E
• Echinodorus tenellus--Small burhead--E
• Eleocharis pauciflora--Few flowered spikerush--E
• Eleocharis rostellata--Beaked spikerush--T
• Epilobium strictum--Downy willow herb--T
• Eriophorum virginicum--Rusty cotton grass--E
• Eriophorum viridi-carinatum--Tall cotton grass--E
• Eupatorium incarnatum--Thoroughwort--E
• Filipendula rubra--Queen-of-the-prairie--T
• Fimbristylis annua--Baldwin's fimbristylis--E
• Fimbristylis vahlii--Vahl's fimbristylis--E
• Galium labradoricum--Bog bedstraw--T
• Gaultheria procumbens--Wintergreen--E
• Glyceria arkansana--Arkansas manna-grass--E
• Glyceria borealis--Northern manna-grass--E
• Helianthus angustifolius--Narrow-leaved sunflower--T
• Helianthus giganteus--Tall sunflower--E
• Heteranthera reniformis--Mud plantain--E
• Hydrocotyle ranunculoides--Water-pennywort--E
• Hydrolea uniflora--One-flowered hydrolea--E
• Hypericum adpressum--Shore St. John's wort--E
• Isoetes butleeri--Quillwort--E
• Juncus alpinus--Richardson's rush--E
• Juncus vaseyi--Vasey's rush--E
• Justicia ovata--Water willow--E
• Larix laricina--Tamarack--T
• Leptochloa panicoides--Salt meadow grass--E
• Lycopodium inundatum--Bog clubmoss--E
• Lysimachia fraseri--Loosestrife--E
• Lysimachia radicans--Creeping loosestrife--E
• Melothria pendula--Squirting cucumber--E
• Mimulus glabratus--Yellow monkey flower--E
• Panicum joorii--Panic grass--E
• Panicum stipitatum--Tall flat panic grass--E
• Panicum yadkinense--Panic grass--E
• Paspalum dissectum--Bead grass--E
• Planera aquatica--Water elm--E
• Platanthera clavellata--Wood orchid--E
• Platanthera flava--Tubercled orchid--E
• Platanthera flava herbiola--Tubercled orchid--E
• Platanthera leucophaea--Pairie whithe fringed orchid--E
• Poa autumnalis--Autumn bluegrass--E
• Pognia ophioglossoides--Snake-mouth--E
• Polygonatum pubescens--Downy Solomon's seal--T
• Polygonum arifolium--Halbred-leaved tearthumb--E
• Primula mistassinica--Bird's-eye primrose--E
• Puccinellia pallida--Pole manna-grass--E
• Rhamnus alnifolia--Alder buckthorn--E
• Rhynchospora globularis--Grass beaked rush--E
• Rhynchospora glomerata--Clustered beaked rush--E
• Ribes hirtellum--Northern gooseberry--E
• Rorippa islandica hispida--Hairy marsh yellow cress--E
• Rubus pubescens--Dwarf Raspberry--T
• Rubus setosus--Bristly blackberry--E
• Sagittaria longirostra--Arrowhead--E
• Salix serissima--Autumn willow--E
• Sambucus pubens--Red-berried elder--T
• Sanguisorba canadensis--American burnet--E
• Sarracenia purpurea--Pitcher plant--E
• Scheuchzeria palustris--Arrow-grass--E
• Scirpus cespitosus--Tufted bulrush--E
• Scripus hattorianus--Bulrush--E
• Scirpus paludosus--Alkali bulrush--E
• Scirpus polyphyllus--Bulrush--T
• Scirpus purshianus--Weak bulrush--E
• Scirpus smithii--Smith's bulrush--E
• Sorbus americana--American mountain ash--E
• Sparganium americanum--American burreed--E
• Sparganium chlorocarpum--Green-fruited burreed--E
• Spiranthes romanzoffiana--Hooded ladies' tresses--E
• Styrax americana--Patterson bindweed--T
• Styrax americana--Storax--T
• Sullivantia renifolia--Sullivantia--T
• Thalia dealbata--Powdery thalia--E
• Thismia americana--Thismia--E
• Thuja occidentalis--Arbor vitae--T
• Tofieldia glutinosa--False asphodel--T
• Trientalis borealis--Star-flower--T
• Triglochin maritima--Common bog arrowgrass--E
• Triglochin palustris--Slender bog arrowgrass--E
• Utricularia cornuta--Horned bladderwort--E
• Utricularia intermedia--Flat-leaved bladderwort--E
• Utricularia minor--Small bladderwort--E
• Vaccinium corymbosum--Highbush blueberry--E
• Vaccinium macrocarpon--Large cranberry--E
• Vaccinium oxycoccos--Small cranberry--E
• Valeriana uliginosa--Marsh valerian--E
• Veronica americana--American brooklime--E
• Veronica scutellata--Marsh speedwell--T
• Viola incognita--Hairy white violet--E
• Viola primulifolia--Primrose violet--E
• Zigadenus glaucus--White camass--E

• Clemmys guttata--Spotted turtle--E
• Clonophis kirtlandi--Kirtland's snake--T
• Kinosternon flavescens--Illinois mud turtle--E
• Macroclemys temmincki--Alligator snapping turtle--T
• Nerodia cyclopion--Green water snake--T
• Nerodia fasciata--Broad-banded water snake--E
• Pseudemys concinna--River cooter--E
• Sistrurus catenatus--Eastern massasauga--E
• Thamnophis sauritus--Eastern ribbon snake--E

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