Endangered and Threatened Species

St. Clair and Madison Counties, Illinois

This is a list of the endangered and threatened plant and animal species of the Great American Bottoms adjacent to the cities of East St. Louis, Cahokia, Fairview Heights, Belleville, Granite City, and Collinsville as found in (Endangered and Threatened Species of Illinois: Status and Distribution)

St. Clair County

Fauna

Endangered

Birds

• American Bittern Botaurus lentiginosus

Amphibians and Reptiles

• Great Plains Rat Snake Elaphe guttata emoryi

Crustaceans

• Illinois Cave Amphipod Gammarus acherondytes

Threatened

Birds

• Great Egret Casmerodius albus
• Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea
• Snowy Egret Egretta thula
• Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
• Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus
• Black-Crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
• Pied-Billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps

Mussels

• Pondhorn Uniomerus tetralasmus

Flora

Endangered

Trees

• American Chestnut Castanea dentata

Perennial Flowers

• White Lady's Slipper Cypripedium candidum
• Spring Ladies' Tresses Spiranthes vernalis

Perennial Vines

• Blue Jasmine Clematis crispa

Herbs

• Large Ground Plum Astragalus crassicarpus var. trichocalyx
• Small Burhead Echinodorus tenellus var. parvulus
• Mud Plantain Heteranthera reniformis
• Heart-Leaved Plantain Plantago cordata
• Mock Bishop's Weed Ptilimnium nuttallii
• Sour Dock Rumex hastatulus
• Prairie Rose Gentian Sabatia campestris
• Royal Catchfly Silene regia
• Globe Mallow Sphaeralcea angusta
• Buffalo Clover Trifolium reflexum

Ferns

• Oak Fern Gymnocarpium dryopteris

Grasses

• Bead Grass Paspalum dissectum
• Grove Bluegrass Poa alsodes

Annuals

• Cinquefoil Potentilla millegrana

Sedges

• Torrey Bulrush Scirpus torreyi

Threatened

Herbs

• Slender Sandwort Arenaria patula
• Decurrent False Aster Boltonia decurrens
• Tubercled Orchid Platanthera flava var. herbiola

Madison County

Fauna

Endangered

Mammals

• Gray Bat Myotis grisescens
• Indiana Bat Myotis sodalis

Birds

• Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda
• Least Tern Sterna antillarum

Amphibians and Reptiles

• Great Plains Rat Snake Elaphe guttata emoryi
• Eastern Massasauga Sistrurus catenatus

Fish

• Lake Sturgeon Acipenser fulvescens
• Sturgeon Chub Macrhybopsis gelida
• Bigeye Shiner Notropis boops

Mussels

• Elephant-Ear Elliptio crassidens
• Fat Pocketbook Potamilus capax
• Salamander Mussel Simpsonaias ambigua

Threatened

Birds

• Great Egret Casmerodius albus
• Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea
• Snowy Egret Egretta thula
• Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
• Black-Crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
• Pied-Billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
• King Rail Rallus elegans
• Bewick's Wren Thryomanes bewickii
• Yellow-Headed Blackbird Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus

Amphibians and Reptiles

• Timber Rattlesnake Crotalus horridus
• Illinois Chorus Frog Pseudacris streckeri

Mussels

• Butterfly Mussel Ellipsaria lineolata
• Ebonyshell Fusconaia ebena

Flora

Endangered

Perennial Flowers

• Prairie White Fringed Orchid Platanthera leucophaea
• Royal Catchfly Silene regia
• Spring Ladies' Tresses Spiranthes vernalis

Herbs

• Large Ground Plum Astragalus crassicarpus var. trichocalyx
• Sour Dock Rumex hastatulus
• Prairie Spiderwort Tradescantia bracteata

Grasses

• Whitlow Grass Draba cuneifolia
• Hairy Bead Grass Paspalum bushii

Threatened

• Hill's Thistle Cirsium hillii

Source: Endangered and Threatened Species of Illinois: Status and Distribution, Volumes 1-3. 1991. James R. Herkert, Editor. Illinois Endangered Species Protection Board.

Document author(s) : Deanna Koenigs
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Last modified: 18 Sept, 1995, Deanna Koenigs

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