Indiana Federally-Listed Threatened, Endangered and Proposed Species' County Distribution For more information on Indiana's federally listed species, contact U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 620 S. Walker St., Bloomington, Indiana 47403-2121 or phone (812)334-4261 Revised March 7, 2019 Species Status Counties Habitat MAMMALS Gray bat Endangered Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Perry, A year-round cave obligate species - (Myotis grisescens) Spencer - roosting in caves both during hibernation and summer. Foraging habitat of gray bats is correlated with rivers, streams, lakes or reservoirs and associated shorelines. Forested corridors used to travel between caves and foraging areas. Indiana bat Endangered Statewide Hibernation occurs in caves and Myotis sodalis mines, with swarming in CRITICAL HABITAT: Big Wyandotte Cave surrounding wooded areas. Summer (Crawford County), Ray's Cave (Greene roosting and foraging habitat occurs County) in wooded stream corridors and in bottomland and upland forests and woods. Northern long-eared bat Threatened Statewide Hibernates in caves and mines - Myotis septentrionalis swarming in surrounding wooded areas in autumn. Roosts and forages in upland forests and woods. BIRDS Least tern Endangered Gibson, Greene, Posey, Spencer Sandbars on large rivers, dredged (Sterna antillarum) spoil islands, and man-made habitats that include constructed nesting islands and gravel areas near impoundments. Piping plover Endangered Lake, LaPorte and Porter Beaches along shoreline of Lake (Charadrius melodus) Michigan Piping plover Critical Habitat Porter - 7.9 km of Lake Michigan shoreline (Charadrius melodus) Designated (5 km are part of Indiana Dunes State Park and the remainng 2.9 km are part of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore) No recent records Rufa red knot Threatened Lake Beaches along shoreline of Lake (Calidris canutus rufa) Michigan REPTILES Copperbelly water snake Threatened Kosciusko, St. Joseph, Steuben Wooded and permanently wet (Nerodia erythrogaster areas such as oxbows, sloughs, neglecta) brushy ditches and floodplain woods Eastern massasauga Threatened Allen, Carroll, Elkhart, Fulton, Kosciuscko, Wetlands and adjacent uplands (Sistrurus catenatus) Lagrange, Lake, LaPorte, Marshall, Noble, Porter, Pulaski, St. Joseph, Starke, Steuben, Whitley MUSSELS Clubshell Endangered Carroll, Dekalb, Fulton, Kosciusko, Tippecanoe River, Fish Creek (Pleurobema clava) Marshall, Pulaski, Starke, Steuben, Tippecanoe, White Fanshell Endangered Carroll, Daviess, Dubois, Gibson, Lawrence, Tippecanoe River, Wabash River, (Cyprogenia stegaria) Martin, Pike, Posey, Tippecanoe, Wabash, East Fork White River White Fat pocketbook Endangered Daviess, Dubois, Gibson, Knox, Pike, Posey, Big Creek, Ohio River, Wabash (Potamilus capax) Vanderburgh River, East Fork White River, White River Northern riffleshell Endangered Dekalb, Pulaski Tippecanoe River, Fish Creek (Epioblasma torulosa rangiana) Rabbitsfoot Threatened Carroll, Cass, Fulton, Miami, Perry, Pulaski, Eel River, Fish Creek, Flatrock River, (Quadrula cylindrica Shelby, Spencer, Starke, Tippecanoe, Ohio River, Sugar Creek, Tippecanoe cylindrica) Wabash and White River, Wabash River Rabbitsfoot Critical Habitat Carroll, Pulaski, Tippecanoe and White Tippecanoe River (Quadrula cylindrica cylindrica) Rayed Bean Endangered Allen, Carroll, Dekalb, Fulton, Johnson, Fish Creek, Lake Maxinkuckee, St. (Villosa fabalis) Kosciusko, Marshall, Pulaski, Starke, Joseph River, Sugar Creek, Steuben, Tippecanoe, and White Tippecanoe River Rough pigtoe Endangered Lawrence, Martin East Fork White River (Pleurobema plenum) Sheepnose (Plethobasus Endangered Carroll, Cass, Clark, Crawford, Dearborn, Eel River, Ohio River, Tippecanoe cyphyus) Floyd, Fulton, Harrison, Jefferson, Knox, River, East Fork White River, and Marshall, Martin, Ohio, Perry, Posey, Wabash River Pulaski, Spencer, Starke, Switzerland, Tippecanoe, Vanderburgh, Wabash, Warrick, White Snuffbox Endangered Carroll, Hancock, Huntington, Johnson, Small to medium-sized creeks and (Epioblasma triquetra) LaGrange, Shelby, Tippecanoe, and White some larger rivers, in areas with a swift current - - Tippecanoe River, Salamonie River, Sugar Creek, Buck Creek, Pigeon River White cat's paw Endangered Dekalb Fish Creek pearlymussel (Epioblasma obliquata perobliqua) INSECTS Mitchell's satyr Endangered LaGrange Fens (Neonympha mitchellii) Karner blue butterfly Endangered Lake, Porter Pine barrens and oak savannas on (Lycaeides melissa sandy soils and containing wild samuelis) lupines (Lupinus perennis), the only known food plant of larvae. Rusty patched bumble bee Endangered Fountain, Hamilton, Lake, Marion, Grasslands with flowering plants Bombus affinis Montgomery from April through October, underground and abandoned rodent Note for project proponents: this bee cavities or clumps of grasses above is not known to occur throughout the ground as nesting sites, and entire county. To determine if your undisturbed soil for hibernating project or ongoing action is within an queens to overwinter. area that is likely to have the rusty patched bumble bee, use our online tool at https://ecos.fws.gov/ipac/ PLANTS Eastern prairie fringed Mesic to wet prairies and meadows orchid Threatened White (Plantathera leucophaea) Mead's milkweed Threatened Lake Prairies Asclepias meadii Pitcher's thistle Threatened Lake, Porter Lakeshores; stabilized dunes and (Cirsium pitcheri) blowout areas Running buffalo clover Endangered Dearborn, Ohio, Ripley Disturbed bottomland meadows (Trifolium stoloniferum) Short's bladderpod Endangered and Posey Rocky wooded slopes and talus (Physaria globosa) Critical Habitat areas, often associated with calcareous rock. Along cliff tops, ledges and bases; often adjacent to rivers or streams. Short's goldenrod Endangered Harrison Natural openings associated with (Solidago shortii) rock outcrops or rocky shorelines along rivers. .