Southern Region Rare Plant Profiles
This list includes species proposed or listed as threatened or endangered (TEP) by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS), under the Endangered Species Act (ESA); and/or a plant must be ranked as Critically Imperiled by NatureServe; that is, ranked as G1 and/or T1 using NatureServe's ranking criteria; and, are known to currently exist in at least one location on national forests or national grasslands. About the Rare Plant Profiles…
States
- Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia
Threatened, Endangered, and Proposed (TEP) Plant Profiles
- Arabis serotina, shale barren rock-cress
- Betula uber, Virginia roundleaf birch
- Bonamia grandiflora, Florida bonamia
- Callicarpa ampla, capa rosa
- Echinacea laevigata, smooth coneflower
- Eriogonum longifolium var. gnaphalifolium, scrub buckwheat
- Eugenia haematocarpa, uvillo
- Geum radiatum, spreading avens
- Gymnoderma lineare, rock gnome lichen
- Harperocallis flava, Harper’s beauty
- Helenium virginicum, Virginia sneezeweed
- Helianthus schweinitzii, Schweinitz’s sunflower
- Helonias bullata, swamp pink
- Houstonia purpurea var. montana, Roan Mountain bluet (also known as, Hedyotis purpurea var. montana)
- Hudsonia montana, mountain golden heather
- Ilex sintenisii, Sintenis’ holly
- Isoetes louisianensis, Louisiana quillwort
- Isotria medeoloides, small whorled pogonia
- Lepanthes eltoroensis, Luquillo Mountain babyboot orchid
- Liatris helleri, Heller’s blazing star
- Lindera melissifolia, pondberry
- Lysimachia asperulaefolia, rough-leaved loosestrife
- Macbridea alba, white birds-in-a-nest
- Minuartia cumberlandensis, Cumberland sandwort (also known as, Arenaria cumberlandensis)
- Oxypolis canbyi, Canby’s dropwort
- Pinguicula ionantha, Godfrey’s butterwort
- Pityopsis ruthii, Ruth’s golden aster
- Pleodendron macranthum, chupacallos
- Polygala lewtonii, Lewton’s polygala
- Ptilimnium nodosum, harperella
- Ribes echinellum, Miccosukee gooseberry
- Sagittaria secundifolia, Kral’s water-plantain
- Sarracenia oreophila, green pitcher-plant
- Schwalbea americana, American chaffseed
- Scirpus ancistrochaetus, northeastern bulrush
- Scutellaria floridana, Florida skullcap
- Scutellaria montana, large-flowered skullcap
- Solidago albopilosa, white-haired goldenrod
- Solidago spithamaea, Blue Ridge goldenrod
- Spiraea virginiana, Virginia spiraea
- Styrax portoricensis, palo de jazmin
- Ternstroemia luquillensis, palo colorado
- Ternstroemia subsessilis, el yunque colorado
- Thelypteris pilosa var. alabamensis, Alabama streak-sorus fern
- Torreya taxifolia, Florida nutmeg
- Trillium persistens, persistent trillium
- Trillium reliquum, relict trillium