Endangered, Threatened, and Special Concern Plants

Bog rosemary, threatened
Status |
Common Name |
Scientific Name |
| E | Balsam fir (native populations only) | Abies balsamea |
| SC | Virginia copperleaf | Acalypha virginica |
| E | Sandplain agalinis+ | Agalinis acuta |
| E | Yellow giant hyssop | Agastache nepetoides |
| E | Purple giant hyssop | Agastache scrophulariifolia |
| E | Small white snakeroot | Ageratina aromatica |
| T | Short-awned meadow-foxtail | Alopecurus aequalis |
| SC | Sea-beach amaranth*^ | Amaranthus pumilus |
| T | Bog rosemary | Andromeda polifolia var. glaucophylla |
| SC | Sharp-lobed hepatica | Anemone acutiloba |
| T | Canada anemone | Anemone canadensis |
| E | Sea-coast angelica | Angelica lucida |
| SC | Hairy angelica* | Angelica venenosa |
| SC | Field pussytoes* | Antennaria howellii ssp. petaloidea |
| SC | Puttyroot* | Aplectrum hyemale |
| E | Dwarf mistletoe | Arceuthobium pusillum |
| SC | Dragon's-mouth* | Arethusa bulbosa |
| SC | Needlegrass | Aristida longespica var. geniculata |
| E | Arrowfeather | Aristida purpurascens |
| E | Beach needle grass | Aristida tuberculosa |
| SC | Purple milkweed | Asclepias purpurascens |
| SC | White milkweed* | Asclepias variegata |
| E | Green milkweed | Asclepias viridiflora |
| SC | Mountain spleenwort | Asplenium montanum |
| T | Wallrue spleenwort | Asplenium ruta-muraria |
| SC | Bracted orache | Atriplex glabriuscula |
| T | Swamp birch | Betula pumila |
| SC | Beck's water-marigold | Bidens beckii |
| E | Eaton's beggarticks | Bidens eatonii |
| SC | Downy wood-mint* | Blephilia ciliata |
| SC | Hairy wood-mint* | Blephilia hirsuta |
| SC | Bayonet grass | Bolboschoenus maritimus ssp. paludosus |
| SC | Salt marsh bulrush | Bolboschoenus novae-angliae |
| SC | Little grape fern* | Botrychium simplex |
| E | Sideoats grama-grass | Bouteloua curtipendula |
| T | Reed bentgrass | Calamagrostis stricta ssp. inexpansa |
| SC | Short-stalked false bindweed* | Calystegia silvatica |
| SC | Low bindweed* | Calystegia spithamaea |
| SC | Purple cress | Cardamine douglassii |
| SC | Summer sedge | Carex aestivalis |
| E | Broadwing sedge | Carex alata |
| T | Foxtail sedge | Carex alopecoidea |
| SC | Water sedge | Carex aquatilis ssp. altior |
| E | Back's sedge | Carex backii |
| E | Barratt's sedge | Carex barrattii |
| SC | Bush's sedge | Carex bushii |
| E | Brown bog sedge | Carex buxbaumii |
| E | Chestnut-colored sedge | Carex castanea |
| SC | Collins' sedge* | Carex collinsii |
| T | Crawe's sedge | Carex crawei |
| SC | Crawford sedge* | Carex crawfordii |
| T | Clustered sedge | Carex cumulata |
| T | Davis' sedge | Carex davisii |
| E | Meager sedge | Carex exilis |
| SC | Bronze sedge | Carex foenea |
| SC | Handsome sedge | Carex formosa |
| SC | Hitchcock's sedge | Carex hitchcockiana |
| T | Mud sedge | Carex limosa |
| E | Boreal bog sedge | Carex magellanica |
| SC | Troublesome sedge | Carex molesta |
| SC | Black-edge sedge* | Carex nigromarginata |
| SC | New England sedge | Carex novae-angliae |
| SC | Eastern few-fruit sedge | Carex oligocarpa |
| SC | Few-seeded sedge* | Carex oligosperma |
| SC | Few-flowered sedge* | Carex pauciflora |
| E | Variable sedge | Carex polymorpha |
| SC | Prairie sedge | Carex prairea |
| E | Cyperus-like sedge | Carex pseudocyperus |
| E | Reznicek's sedge | Carex reznicekii |
| E | Schweinitz's sedge | Carex schweinitzii |
| SC | Dioecious sedge | Carex sterilis |
| SC | Hairy-fruited sedge | Carex trichocarpa |
| SC | Tuckerman's sedge | Carex tuckermanii |
| SC | Cattail sedge | Carex typhina |
| E | Little green sedge | Carex viridula |
| E | Willdenow's sedge | Carex willdenowii |
| E | Indian paintbrush | Castilleja coccinea |
| SC | American bittersweet | Celastrus scandens |
| E | Devil's-bit | Chamaelirium luteum |
| E | Hairy lip-fern | Cheilanthes lanosa |
| SC | Red goosefoot* | Chenopodium rubrum |
| E | Yellow thistle | Cirsium horridulum |
| E | Long-bracted green orchid | Coeloglossum viride |
| SC | Long-leaved redtop-panicgrass* | Coleataenia longifolia ssp. elongata |
| SC | Early coral root | Corallorhiza trifida |
| T | Yellow corydalis | Corydalis flavula |
| E | Pygmyweed | Crassula aquatica |
| SC | Bushy frostweed* | Crocanthemum dumosum |
| SC | Low frostweed | Crocanthemum propinquum |
| SC | Elliptical rushfoil* | Crotonopsis elliptica |
| E | Slender cliff-brake | Cryptogramma stelleri |
| SC | Blue waxweed* | Cuphea viscosissima |
| SC | Hazel dodder* | Cuscuta coryli |
| SC | Wild comfrey* | Cynoglossum virginianum |
| SC | Ram's-head lady's-slipper* | Cypripedium arietinum |
| SC | Yellow lady's-slipper | Cypripedium parviflorum |
| E | Showy lady's-slipper | Cypripedium reginae |
| SC | Tufted hairgrass | Deschampsia cespitosa |
| E | Large-bracted tick-trefoil | Desmodium cuspidatum |
| SC | Dillenius' tick-trefoil | Desmodium glabellum |
| SC | Sessile-leaf tick-trefoil* | Desmodium sessilifolium |
| SC | Squirrel corn | Dicentra canadensis |
| SC | Stiff-leaved rosette-panicgrass* | Dichanthelium ovale ssp. pseudopubescens |
| E | Tall swamp rosette-panicgrass | Dichanthelium scabriusculum |
| SC | Round-fruited rosette-panicgrass* | Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon var. isophyllum |
| SC | Pale-leaved rosette-panicgrass* | Dichanthelium xanthophysum |
| E | Narrow-leaved glade fern | Diplazium pycnocarpon |
| SC | Appalachian white-aster* | Doellingeria infirma |
| SC | Whitlow-grass | Draba reptans |
| SC | Thread-leaf sundew* | Drosera filiformis |
| SC | Tall cinquefoil | Drymocallis arguta |
| E | Mountain wood-fern | Dryopteris campyloptera |
| SC | Goldie's fern | Dryopteris goldiana |
| E | Bur-head | Echinodorus tenellus |
| E | Horsetail spikesedge | Eleocharis equisetoides |
| SC | Small-fruited spikesedge* | Eleocharis microcarpa var. filiculmis |
| E | Square-stemmed spikesedge | Eleocharis quadrangulata var. crassior |
| SC | Wiegand's wild rye | Elymus wiegandii |
| SC | Virginia snakeroot | Endodeca serpentaria |
| SC | Marsh horsetail* | Equisetum palustre |
| E | Meadow horsetail | Equisetum pratense |
| E | Dwarf scouring rush | Equisetum scirpoides |
| E | Parker's pipewort | Eriocaulon parkeri |
| T | Hare's tail | Eriophorum vaginatum var. spissum |
| E | White thoroughwort | Eupatorium album |
| E | Rough aster | Eurybia radula |
| T | Showy aster | Eurybia spectabilis |
| E | False mermaid-weed | Floerkea proserpinacoides |
| E | Bog bedstraw | Galium labradoricum |
| SC | Purple cudweed* | Gamochaeta purpurea |
| SC | Creeping snowberry | Gaultheria hispidula |
| T | Dwarf huckleberry | Gaylussacia bigeloviana |
| E | Stiff gentian | Gentianella quinquefolia |
| SC | Bicknell's northern crane's-bill* | Geranium bicknellii |
| SC | Dwarf rattlesnake plantain* | Goodyera repens var. ophioides |
| SC | Kidneyleaf mud-plantain* | Heteranthera reniformis |
| SC | Seabeach sandwort | Honckenya peploides |
| SC | Featherfoil | Hottonia inflata |
| T | Longleaf bluet | Houstonia longifolia |
| E | Golden-heather | Hudsonia ericoides |
| T | Woolly beach-heather | Hudsonia tomentosa |
| SC | Fir clubmoss* | Huperzia appressa |
| SC | Green violet* | Hybanthus concolor |
| E | Goldenseal | Hydrastis canadensis |
| E | Water pennywort | Hydrocotyle umbellata |
| E | Whorled pennywort | Hydrocotyle verticillata |
| SC | Virginia waterleaf | Hydrophyllum virginianum |
| SC | Creeping St. John's-wort* | Hypericum adpressum |
| SC | Great St. John's-wort | Hypericum ascyron |
| T | Inkberry (native populations only) | Ilex glabra |
| E | Small whorled pogonia^ | Isotria medeoloides |
| SC | Weak rush* | Juncus debilis |
| T | Two-flowered cynthia | Krigia biflora |
| E | Carolina redroot (native populations only) | Lachnanthes caroliniana |
| SC | Illinois pinweed* | Lechea racemulosa |
| E | Saltpond Grass | Leptochloa fusca ssp. fascicularis |
| SC | Creeping bush-clover | Lespedeza repens |
| SC | New England blazing-star | Liatris novae-angliae |
| E | Scotch lovage | Ligusticum scoticum |
| SC | Lilaeopsis | Lilaeopsis chinensis |
| SC | Mudwort | Limosella australis |
| E | Twinflower | Linnaea borealis ssp. americana |
| SC | Sandplain flax* | Linum intercursum |
| E | Yellow flax | Linum sulcatum |
| E | Lily-leaved twayblade | Liparis liliifolia |
| T | Dwarf bulrush | Lipocarpha micrantha |
| SC | Many-fruited false-loosestrife* | Ludwigia polycarpa |
| E | Globe-fruited false-loosestrife | Ludwigia sphaerocarpa |
| E | Foxtail clubmoss | Lycopodiella alopecuroides |
| SC | Clasping-leaved water-horehound | Lycopus amplectens |
| SC | Climbing fern | Lygodium palmatum |
| SC | Stagger-bush* | Lyonia mariana |
| E | Winged loosestrife | Lythrum alatum |
| T | Three-leaved false Solomon's-seal | Maianthemum trifolium |
| SC | Bayard's white adder's mouth* | Malaxis bayardii |
| E | White adder's-mouth | Malaxis brachypoda |
| E | Green adder's-mouth | Malaxis unifolia |
| E | Tall millet-grass | Milium effusum |
| E | Mountain sandwort | Minuartia glabra |
| SC | Naked miterwort | Mitella nuda |
| E | Large-leaved sandwort | Moehringia macrophylla |
| E | One-flower wintergreen | Moneses uniflora |
| E | Long-awn hairgrass | Muhlenbergia capillaris |
| E | Slender water-milfoil | Myriophyllum alterniflorum |
| E | Cutleaf water-milfoil | Myriophyllum pinnatum |
| T | Northern water-milfoil | Myriophyllum sibiricum |
| SC | Large yellow pond lily* | Nuphar advena |
| SC | Small yellow pond lily* | Nuphar microphylla |
| E | Bog aster | Oclemena nemoralis |
| SC | Sundrops* | Oenothera fruticosa |
| E | Prairie goldenrod | Oligoneuron album |
| E | Stiff goldenrod | Oligoneuron rigidum |
| E | Gravel-weed | Onosmodium virginianum |
| E | Northern adder's-tongue | Ophioglossum pusillum |
| E | Southern adder's-tongue | Ophioglossum vulgatum |
| SC | Eastern prickly pear | Opuntia humifusa |
| SC | Golden club | Orontium aquaticum |
| SC | One-sided pyrola* | Orthilia secunda |
| SC | Violet wood-sorrel | Oxalis violacea |
| E | Small's ragwort | Packera anonyma |
| E | Balsam groundsel | Packera paupercula |
| SC | American ginseng | Panax quinquefolius |
| T | Bitter panicgrass | Panicum amarum var. amarum |
| SC | Warty panic grass* | Panicum verrucosum |
| SC | Hairy forked chickweed* | Paronychia fastigiata |
| T | Field paspalum | Paspalum laeve |
| SC | Thin paspalum* | Paspalum setaceum var. psammophilum |
| T | Swamp lousewort | Pedicularis lanceolata |
| E | Smooth cliff-brake | Pellaea glabella |
| T | Sweet coltsfoot | Petasites frigidus var. palmatus |
| SC | Wild kidney bean* | Phaseolus polystachios var. polystachios |
| SC | American reed | Phragmites americanus |
| E | Red pine (native populations only) | Pinus resinosa |
| E | Slender mountain ricegrass | Piptatherum pungens |
| E | Sickle-leaved golden aster | Pityopsis falcata |
| SC | Hoary plantain | Plantago virginica |
| E | White-fringed orchid | Platanthera blephariglottis |
| E | Yellow-fringed orchid | Platanthera ciliaris |
| SC | Tall white bog orchid* | Platanthera dilatata |
| SC | Pale green orchid | Platanthera flava var. herbiola |
| SC | Hooker's orchid* | Platanthera hookeri |
| SC | Large round-leaved orchid* | Platanthera orbiculata |
| SC | Clammy-weed* | Polanisia dodecandra |
| SC | Alternate milkwort | Polygala ambigua |
| E | Field milkwort | Polygala cruciata |
| T | Nuttall's milkwort | Polygala nuttallii |
| E | Seneca snakeroot | Polygala senega |
| SC | Seabeach knotweed | Polygonum glaucum |
| E | Small-flowered leafcup | Polymnia canadensis |
| T | Swamp cottonwood | Populus heterophylla |
| E | Tuckerman's pondweed | Potamogeton confervoides |
| E | Fries' pondweed | Potamogeton friesii |
| T | Capillary pondweed | Potamogeton gemmiparus |
| E | Hill's pondweed | Potamogeton hillii |
| E | Ogden's pondweed | Potamogeton ogdenii |
| E | Straight-leaved pondweed | Potamogeton strictifolius |
| T | Vasey's pondweed | Potamogeton vaseyi |
| SC | Alleghany plum* | Prunus alleghaniensis |
| SC | Graves beach plum* | Prunus maritima var. gravesii |
| SC | Goose grass* | Puccinellia pumila |
| E | Torrey mountain-mint | Pycnanthemum torrei |
| SC | Bur oak | Quercus macrocarpa |
| E | Water-plantain spearwort | Ranunculus ambigens |
| E | Seaside crowfoot | Ranunculus cymbalaria |
| SC | Creeping spearwort* | Ranunculus flammula var. reptans |
| SC | Bristly buttercup | Ranunculus pensylvanicus |
| T | Labrador tea | Rhododendron groenlandicum |
| SC | Fragrant sumac (native populations only)* | Rhus aromatica |
| E | Needle beaksedge | Rhynchospora capillacea |
| T | Tall beaksedge | Rhynchospora macrostachya |
| E | Long-beaked beaksedge | Rhynchospora scirpoides |
| SC | Skunk currant | Ribes glandulosum |
| SC | Swamp black currant* | Ribes lacustre |
| SC | Wild currant | Ribes rotundifolium |
| E | Swamp red currant | Ribes triste |
| SC | Shining rose* | Rosa nitida |
| T | Toothcup | Rotala ramosior |
| SC | Sand blackberry | Rubus cuneifolius |
| E | Dew-drop | Rubus dalibarda |
| SC | Sea-side dock* | Rumex persicarioides |
| SC | Large marsh pink* | Sabatia dodecandra |
| E | Marsh pink | Sabatia stellaris |
| E | Northern arrowhead | Sagittaria cuneata |
| SC | Awl-leaved arrowhead | Sagittaria subulata |
| E | Quill-leaved arrowhead | Sagittaria teres |
| E | Sandbar willow | Salix exigua |
| E | Bog willow | Salix pedicellaris |
| SC | Slender willow | Salix petiolaris |
| E | Lizard's tail | Saururus cernuus |
| E | Pod grass | Scheuchzeria palustris ssp. americana |
| SC | Purple oat | Schizachne purpurascens |
| T | Hard-stemmed bulrush | Schoenoplectus acutus |
| T | Torrey bulrush | Schoenoplectus torreyi |
| SC | Chaffseed*+ | Schwalbea americana |
| SC | Georgia bulrush* | Scirpus georgianus |
| SC | Long's bulrush* | Scirpus longii |
| E | Few-flowered nutrush | Scleria pauciflora var. caroliniana |
| E | Reticulated nutrush | Scleria reticularis |
| E | Whip nutrush | Scleria triglomerata |
| SC | Low nutrush* | Scleria verticillata |
| E | Hyssop skullcap | Scutellaria integrifolia |
| E | Small skullcap | Scutellaria parvula var. missouriensis |
| E | Sweet-scented Indian-plantain | Senecio suaveolens |
| T | Wild senna | Senna hebecarpa |
| T | Three-toothed cinquefoil | Sibbaldiopsis tridentata |
| T | Starry campion | Silene stellata |
| SC | Bristly greenbriar* | Smilax hispida |
| SC | Early wrinkle-leaved goldenrod* | Solidago aestivalis |
| SC | Elliott's goldenrod* | Solidago latissimifolia |
| E | Floating bur-reed | Sparganium fluctuans |
| E | Small bur-reed | Sparganium natans |
| T | Canada sand-spurry | Spergularia canadensis |
| SC | Little ladies'-tresses | Spiranthes tuberosa var. grayi |
| E | Rough dropseed | Sporobolus clandestinus |
| T | Sand dropseed | Sporobolus cryptandrus |
| E | Northern dropseed | Sporobolus heterolepis |
| E | Small dropseed | Sporobolus neglectus |
| T | Hispid hedge-nettle | Stachys hispida |
| E | Hyssop-leaf hedge-nettle | Stachys hyssopifolia |
| SC | Northern stitchwort | Stellaria borealis |
| T | White mandarin | Streptopus amplexifolius |
| SC | Crooked-stem aster* | Symphyotrichum prenanthoides |
| E | Yellow pimpernel | Taenidia integerrima |
| T | Northern white cedar (native populations only) | Thuja occidentalis |
| SC | Appalachian gametophyte | Trichomanes intricatum |
| SC | Alpine bulrush* | Trichophorum alpinum |
| E | False pennyroyal | Trichostema brachiatum |
| E | Narrow-leaved horse gentian | Triosteum angustifolium |
| E | Nodding pogonia | Triphora trianthophora |
| E | Narrow false oats | Trisetum spicatum |
| T | Spreading globe flower | Trollius laxus |
| E | Resupinate bladderwort | Utricularia resupinata |
| E | Large-flowered bellwort | Uvularia grandiflora |
| E | Velvetleaf blueberry | Vaccinium myrtilloides |
| SC | Mountain cranberry* | Vaccinium vitis-idaea ssp. minus |
| SC | Beaked corn-salad* | Valerianella radiata |
| SC | Hybrid bunchflower* | Veratrum latifolium |
| SC | Narrow-leaved vervain* | Verbena simplex |
| SC | Possum haw* | Viburnum nudum |
| T | Smooth black-haw | Viburnum prunifolium |
| E | Hook-spurred violet | Viola adunca |
| E | Coast violet | Viola brittoniana |
| SC | Canada violet | Viola canadensis |
| SC | Southern wood violet* | Viola hirsutula |
| SC | Northern bog violet | Viola nephrophylla |
| E | Kidney-leaf white violet | Viola renifolia |
| SC | Great-spurred violet | Viola selkirkii |
| E | Barren strawberry | Waldsteinia fragarioides |
| T | Northern yellow-eyed grass | Xyris montana |
| E | Small's yellow-eyed | Xyris smalliana |
| E | Golden Alexanders | Zizia aptera |
* Believed Extirpated
+ Federally Endangered
^ Federally Threatened
Effective August 5, 2015
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Endangered, Threatened and Special Concern Species in Connecticut