Pub. No. 50 December 2016 Federally Protected Species In Dr. Kim D. Coder, Professor of Tree Biology & Health Care Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources, University of Georgia

Endangered and of are given federal protection under regulations and agreements stemming from the Endangered Species Act, as amended. Federal protection includes individuals of a listed species, habitats essential for their survival, and specific limitations on pesticide use. This publication lists endangered and threatened plant species by scientific name, common name, federal listing status, and general Georgia county name locations. Figure 1 is a map giving county locations of federally protected plant species in Georgia by identification number. This publication was developed for educational purposes and is not a regulatory document. The State of Georgia (Department of Natural Resources) maintains a com- plete list of both federal and state endangered, threatened, rare and unusual plant species for Georgia. Included at the end of this publication are plant species with a federal status of "candidate," or "in a petition process," for potential listing. Figure 2.

Endangered / Threatened Plant Species

ID common name #(scientific name) status1 county distribution2

1. Little amphianthus / pool sprite / snorklewort (Amphianthus pusillus) T Granite outcrops in Butts, Columbia, Dekalb, Douglas, Greene, Gwinnett, Hancock, Harris, Heard, Henry, Meriwether, Newton, Oglethorpe, Pike, Putnam, Rockdale, & Walton

Dr. Kim D. Coder Warnell School University of Georgia 1 ID common name #(scientific name) status1 county distribution2

2. Georgia rockcress T Chatahoochee, Clay, Harris, (Arabis georgiana) Muscogee, & Stewart

3. hairy rattleweed / cobwebby wild indigo (Baptisia arachnifera) E Brantley & Wayne

4. leatherflower (Clematis socialis) E Floyd

5. smooth purple coneflower (Echinacea laevigata) E Stephens & Towns

6. rock gnome lichen E Rabun (Gymnoderma lineare)

7. whorled sunflower E Floyd (Helianthus verticillatus)

8. swamp pink (Helonias bullata) T Rabun

9. black-spored quillwort (Isoetes melanospora) E Granite outcrops in Butts, Dekalb, Gwinnett, Heard, Newton, Pike, & Rockdale

10. mat-forming quillwort / Merlin's-grass (Isoetes tegetiformans) E Granite outcrops in Columbia, Greene, Hancock, & Putnam

11. small whorled pogonia (Isotria medeoloides) T Rabun

12. pondberry / Southern spicebush (Lindera melissifolia) E Baker, Chatham, Screven & Wheeler

13. Mohr’s barbara’s-buttons / Coosa barbara's-buttons ( mohrii) T Floyd & Walker

14. Canby’s dropwort / Canby's cowbane (Oxypolis canbyi) E Burke, Chatham, Dooly, Jenkins, Lee, Screven, & Sumter

Dr. Kim D. Coder Warnell School University of Georgia 2 ID common name #(scientific name) status1 county distribution2

15. white fringeless orchid / monkeyface orchid (Platanthera integrilabia) T Bartow, Carroll, Chattooga, Coweta, Dade, Fannin, Forsyth Pickens, Rabun, & Stephens

16. harperella / Piedmont mock bishopweed ( nodosum) E Dooly, Greene, & Schley

17. Michaux’s sumac / false poison sumac / dwarf sumac (Rhus michauxii) E Cobb, Columbia, Elbert, Gwinnett, Lincoln, Muscogee, Newton, & Rabun

18. Kral’s water-plantain / Little River arrowhead / Little River water-plantain ( secundifolia T Chattooga

19. green pitcherplant ( oreophila) E Towns

20. chaffseed / American chaffseed (Schwalbea americana) E Baker, Dougherty, Miller, & Spaulding

21. large-flowered skullcap () T Catoosa, Floyd, Gordon, & Walker

22. fringed campion / Eastern fringed catchfly / fringed pink (Silene polypetala) E Baldwin, Bibb, Crawford, Decatur, Talbot & Taylor

23. Virginia spiraea / Virginia meadowsweet / Appalachian spiraea (Spiraea virginiana) T Dade & Walker

24. Cooley's meadowrue (Thalictrum cooleyi) E Worth

Dr. Kim D. Coder Warnell School University of Georgia 3 ID common name #(scientific name) status1 county distribution2

25. torreya / Florida nutmeg (Torreya taxifolia) E Decatur

26. persistent trillium / persistent wakerobin (Trillium persistens) E Habersham, Rabun, & Stevens

27. relict trillium / Confederate wakerobin (Trillium reliquum) E Chattahoochee, Clay, Columbia, Early, Lee, Macon, Muscogee, Quitman, Talbot & Upson

28. Tennessee yellow-eyed grass (Xyris tennesseensis) E Bartow, Floyd, Gordon, & Whitfield

TOTAL NUMBER OF PLANTS LISTED IN GEORGIA AS FEDERALLY PROTECTED = 28 plant species

1 Symbols: E = endangered; T = threatened.

2 Distributions are listed for county locations and do not represent areas within a county. Distributions are not complete.

The University of Georgia is committed to principles of equal opportunity and affirmative action.

Dr. Kim D. Coder Warnell School University of Georgia 4 DADE CATOOSA FANNIN 5TOWNS 26 15 21 6 11 19 RABUN MURRAY 15 UNION 15 23 21 WALKER WHITFIELD28 17 8 23 13 GILMER WHITE 26 CHATTOOGA 28 LUMPKIN 26 GORDON 15 STEPHENS 15 HABERSHAM 18 21 PICKENS 15 5 DAWSON FRANKLIN 21 HALL BANKS 13 28 HART FLOYD CHEROKEE GEORGIA 7 BARTOW 15 28 4 15 FORSYTH JACKSON MADISON ELBERT POLK 17 1 BARROW COBB GWINNETT CLARKE OGLETHORPE PAULDING 17 9 OCONEE HARALSON 17 1 1 WALTON 17 DEKALB WILKES LINCOLN DOUGLAS FULTON 9 1 1 1 16 CARROLL 1 ROCKDALE9 17 MORGAN GREENE 27 15 NEWTON COLUMBIA 1 1 10 CLAYTON HENRY 9 TALIAFERRO 10 1 17 1 COWETA 1 WARREN McDUFFIE FAYETTE HEARD 15 1 JASPER PUTNAM 1 RICHMOND 9 SPALDING BUTTS HANCOCK 20 9 10 1 10 GLASCOCK 1 PIKE BALDWIN JEFFERSON BURKE TROUP 9 LAMAR MONROE JONES 22 14 MERIWETHER WASHINGTON UPSON 27 1 BIBB WILKINSON JENKINS HARRIS 27 14 TALBOT 22 22 CRAWFORD JOHNSON 14 SCREVEN 2 TWIGGS 22 EMANUEL 12 MUSCOGEE TAYLOR PEACH 27 2 22 LAURENS 17 2 HOUSTON CHATTA- BLECKLEY TREUTLEN BULLOCH HOOCHEE MARION MACON CANDLER EFFINGHAM 27 27 16 SCHLEY 16 PULASKI 2 DOOLY DODGE WHEELER EVANS STEWART 14 TOOMBS SUMTER 12 BRYAN 12 CHATHAM MONTGOMERY TATTNALL WEBSTER 14 WILCOX CRISP TELFAIR 14 LIBERTY QUITMAN27 TERRELL 27 LEE JEFF RANDOLPH BEN HILL DAVIS APPLING 27 TURNER LONG 2 14 CLAY IRWIN CALHOUN DOUGHERTY WAYNE WORTH COFFEE BACON 20 McINTOSH 24 TIFT 3 20 EARLY BAKER PIERCE BERRIEN 27 12 ATKINSON 20 MITCHELL 3 GLYNN MILLER COLQUITT BRANTLEY COOK WARE

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Background map from Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia.

Figure 1: Counties where federally protected plant species can be found. This is not a comprehensive map of species locations, nor is it a map for regulatory use. Critical habitats for each species may exist in additional counties. Numbers correspond to species list.

Dr. Kim D. Coder Warnell School University of Georgia 5 common name scientific name Georgia lead-plant (Amorpha georgiana var. georgiana) variable leaf Indian plaintain (Arnoglossum diversifolium) purpledisk honeycombhead ( atropurpurea) ciliate-leaf tickseed (Coreopsis integrifolia) Hirst’s witch grass (Dichanthelium hirstii) small-headed pipewort (Eriocaulon kornickianum) Godfry’s privet (Forestiera godfreyi) Florida hartwrightia (Hartwrightia floridana) Winter quillwort (Isoetes hyemalis) Long Beach seedbox (Ludwigia brevipes) spathulate seedbox (Ludwigia spathulata) Carolina birds-in-a-nest ( caroliniana) hornwort (Megaceros aenigmaticus) needleleaf waternymph (Najas filifolia) Carolina bishopweed (Ptilimnium ahlesii) Thorne’s beaked-rush (Rhynchospora thornei) mountain purple pitcherplant (Sarracenia purpurea var. montana) Hall’s bullrush (Schoenoplectus hallii) Ocmulgee skullcap (Scutellaria ocmulgee) wireleaf dropseed (Sporobolus teretifolius) Georgia aster (Symphyotrichum georgianum) Southern meadowrue (Thalictrum debile) Carolina hemlock (Tsuga caroliniana) Piedmont barren strawberry (Waldsteinia lobata)

Figure 2: Plant species (24 sp.), in alphabetical order by scientific name, with a federal listing status of "candidate" or "in petition process" for Georgia. (source = USDI-FWS-ECOS and USDA-NRCS-PLANTS databases)

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