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rare, threatened and ENDANGERED PLANTS AND ANIMALS OF OREGON HERITAGE PROGRAM DECEMBER 1995 Compiled and Published by: Oregon Natural Heritage Program 821 S.E. 14th Ave. Portland, OR 97214-2531 (503) 731-3070 FAX (503) 230-9639 A Cooperative Project of The Nature Conservancy and the State of Oregon (^onservancy. OF OREGON With assistance from: The Native Plant Society of Oregon The Nature Conservancy The Oregon Department of Agriculture The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife The Oregon Division of State Lands , The Oregon Natural Heritage Advisory Council Cover Illustration: Native bee pollinating the fragrant kalmiopsis (Kalmiopsis fragrans Meinke ined), an endemic to the Umpqua National Forest, drawn by Matthew Carlson. - » Bibliographic reference to this publication should read: Oregon Natural Heritage Program. 1995. Rare, Threatened and Endangered Plants and Animals of Oregon. Oregon Natural Heritage Program, Portland, Oregon. 84 pp. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................................... 1 DISTRIBUTION INFORMATION.............................................................................................................. 2 OREGON MAP WITH ECOREGIONS AND COUNTIES ...................................................................3 DEFINITIONS..................................................................................................................................................4 SPECIAL ANIMALS .................................................................................................................................... 5 Main List .....................................................................................................................................................7 Fish ..................................................................................................................................................... 7 Amphibians............................................................................................................................................... 9 Reptiles . .,......................................................................................................................................... 10 Birds....................................................................................................................................................... 11 Mammals.............................................................................................................................................. 15 Invertebrates......................................................................................................................................... 17 Animals Arranged by Status ................................................................................................................. 27 Federal and State Listed Animal Taxa.............................................................................................. 27 Federal Proposed and Candidate Animal Species........................................................................... 28 Federal Animal Species of Concern .................................................................................................29 ODFW Sensitive Animal Species List............................................................. 30 ORNHP List 1.................................................................................................................................... 32 ORNHP List 2............................................................................................. 34 ORNHP List 3.................................................................................................................................... 35 ORNHP List 4.................................................................................................................................... 37 ORNHP Taxa Considered but Rejected.......................................................................................... 38 SPECIAL PLANTS...................................................................................................................................... 39 Main List .................................................................................................................................................. 41 Vascular Plants .....................................................................................................................................41 Mosses and Liverworts .......................................................................................................................70 Lichens ................................................................................................................................................. 73 Fungi ..................................................................................................................................................... 74 Plants Arranged by Status....................................................................................................................... 75 USFWS Federally Listed, Proposed Taxa and Species of Concern .......................................... 75 ODA State Listed, Proposed and Candidate Taxa ....................................................................... 76 ORNHP List 1........................................................................................................................................77 ORNHP List 2....................................................................................................................................... 78 ORNHP List 3................................................................................................................ 79 ORNHP List 4.................................................................................................................................... 81 ORNHP Taxa Considered but Rejected.......................................................................................... 82 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS........................................................................................................................ 84 ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION Extinction is a natural process. Today, however, plant and animal This book has been compiled using the most current information species are disappearing world-wide at an accelerated pace. Based available on the distribution and abundance of plants and animals on current trends, half of the species on earth will be extinct native to Oregon. Although based on a large volume of within the next 100 years. The major cause of this phenomenon is information, it is by no means complete. Much is known about large-scale destruction of native habitats, which has increased some species, very little about others. ORNHP welcomes since European settlement began in the mid 1800's - in Oregon additional information or recommendations regarding any of the and throughout the New World. taxa listed herein. Such information, as well as data requests, should be directed to: Once lost, a species can never be recovered, and there is no way Oregon Natural Heritage Program of knowing how useful it may have been. We do know that human 821 SE 14th Avenue beings and many of their industries depend on plant and animal Portland, Oregon 97214 products. About 50% of all pharmaceuticals have a natural (503) 731-3070 component as an active ingredient, yet less than one percent of the This publication will be updated every other year. Copies may be world's species have been chemically analyzed and tested. Many obtained at cost ($6.00 per copy -t- $2.00 for shipping and invertebrates and plants contain undescribed and highly functional handling, prepaid) from ORNHP. compounds. Limnanthes floccosa subsp. grandiflora, or wooly meadow-foam, a rare plant that grows in southwest Oregon, has been recently found to produce a hybrid with the more common Outline member of the genus, Limnanthes alba. This hybrid grows well in The book is divided into animal and plant sections. The sections the poorly drained soils of the Willamette Valley and produces a begin with a description of the animal and plant programs in the valuable oil used for soaps, plastic and rubber production. In state and are followed by the main list of animals and plants. For addition, the new hybrid meadow-foam does not require the field animals, the list is divided into major groups: fish, amphibians, burning necessary for other crops. This species, and many other reptiles, mammals, birds, and invertebrates and then arranged Oregon natives, will be lost without intervention. The purpose of alphabetically by scientific name. The plant list is first divided this book is to provide land managers, owners and interested into four groups: vascular plants, non-vascular plants, lichens and parties with a list of those species in Oregon which are in greatest fungi, and then alphabetized by scientific name. The information jeopardy. for each taxa includes 1) scientific and common names with authorities for plants, along with synonymy if the name is new; 2) Oregon State Endangered Species Programs county, ecoregion, and adjacent state distribution information, and 3) the state and federal stanis, as well as the ORNHP list and The In 1987, the Oregon Legislature passed an Endangered Species Nanire Conservancy's (TNC) Heritage Network Global and State Act which gave the Oregon Department of Agriculture ranks. Distribution abbreviations are listed and explained on the