Michigan

County Distribution of Federally-listed Threatened, Endangered, Proposed, and Candidate Species

 

For more information about threatened and endangered species in Michigan, contact the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service office at 2651 Coolidge Road, East Lansing, Michigan 48823 (517/351-6274)

 

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Mammals

Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis)

Status: Threatened

Habitat: Northern forests

Current distribution: A Canada lynx was recently documented in the Upper Peninsula. The counties listed here have the highest potential for Lynx presence: Alger, Baraga, Chippewa, Delta, Dickinson, Gogebic, Houghton, Iron, Keweenaw, Luce, Mackinac, Marquette, Menominee, Ontonagon, Schoolcraft.

 

Gray Wolf (Canis lupus)

Status: Endangered

Habitat: Northern forested areas.

Current distribution: Alger, Baraga, Chippewa, Delta, Dickinson, Gogebic, Houghton, Iron, Keweenaw, Luce, Mackinac, Marquette, Menominee, Ontonagon, Schoolcraft

 

Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis)

Status: Endangered

Habitat: Summer habitat includes small to medium river and stream corridors with well developed riparian woods; woodlots within 1 to 3 miles of small to medium rivers and streams; and upland forests. Caves and mines as hibernacula.

Current distribution: Allegan, Barry, Bay, Benzie, Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Clinton, Eaton, Genesee, Gratiot, Hillsdale, Huron, Ingham, Ionia, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Kent, Lapeer, Leelanau, Lenawee, Livingston, Macomb, Manistee, Mason, Monroe, Montcalm, Muskegon, Oakland, Oceana, Ottawa, Saginaw, St. Joseph, Sanilac, Shiawassee, St. Clair, Tuscola, Van Buren, Washtenaw, and Wayne

 

Birds

Kirtland's warbler (Dendroica kirtlandii)

Status: Endangered

Habitat: Breeding in jack pine

Current distribution: Alcona, Baraga, Chippewa, Clare, Crawford, Delta, Grand Traverse, Iosco, Kalkaska, Luce, Marquette, Montmorency, Ogemaw, Oscoda, Otsego, Presque Isle, Roscommon, Schoolcraft

 

Piping plover (Chradrius melodus)

Status: Endangered

Habitat: Beaches along shorelines of the Great Lakes

Current distribution: Alger, Alpena, Benzie, Berrien, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Chippewa, Delta, Emmet, Leelanau, Luce, Mackinac, Mason, Muskegon, Presque Isle, Schoolcraft

 

Piping plover (Chradrius melodus)

Status: Critical Habitat Designated

Habitat: Beaches along shorelines of the Great Lakes

Current distribution: Alger, Benzie, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Chippewa, Emmet, Iosco, Leelanau, Luce, Mackinac, Mason, Muskegon, Presque Isle,  Schoolcraft

Reptiles

Copperbelly water snake (Nerodia erythrogaster neglecta)

Status: Threatened

Habitat: Wooded and permanently wet areas such as oxbows, sloughs, brushy ditches and floodplain woods

Current distribution: Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Eaton, Hillsdale, St. Joseph

 

Eastern massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus catenatus)

Status: Candidate

Current Distribution: Alcona, Allegan, Alpena, Antrim, Arenac, Barry, Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Cheboygan, Clare, Clinton, Crawford, Eaton, Emmett, Genesee, Grand Traverse, Hillsdale, Huron, Ingham, Ionia, Iosco, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Kalkaska, Kent, Lake, Lapeer, Lenawee, Livingston, Mackinac, Macomb, Manistee, Mason, Missaukee, Montcalm, Montmorency, Muskegon, Newaygo, Oakland, Oscoda, Presque Isle, Saginaw, St. Joseph, Shiawassee, Van Buren, Washtenaw, Wayne

Insects

Hine's emerald dragonfly (Somatochlora hineana)

Status: Endangered

Habitat: Spring fed wetlands, wet meadows and marshes; calcareous streams & associated wetlands overlying dolomite bedrock

Current distribution: Alpena, Mackinac, Menominee, Presque Isle

 

Hungerford's crawling water beetle (Brychius hungerfordi)

Status: Endangered

Habitat: Cool riffles of clean, slightly alkaline streams; known to occur in five streams in northern Michigan.

Current distribution:  Emmet, Montmorency, Presque Isle

 

Karner blue butterfly (Lycaeides melissa samuelis)

Status: Endangered

Habitat: Pine barrens and oak savannas on sandy soils and containing wild lupines (Lupinus perennis), the only known food plant of larvae.

Current distribution:  Allegan, Ionia, Kent, Lake, Mason, Mecosta, Monroe, Montcalm, Muskegon, Newaygo, Oceana

 

Mitchell's satyr (Neonympha mitchellii mitchellii)

Status: Endangered

Habitat: Fens; wetlands characterized by calcareous soils which are fed by carbonate-rich water from seeps and springs

Current distribution:  Barry, Berrien, Branch, Cass, Jackson, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, Van Buren, Washtenaw

Mussels

Clubshell (Pleurobema clava)

Status: Endangered

Habitat: Found in coarse sand and gravel areas of runs and riffles within streams and small rivers

Current distribution: Hillsdale

 

Northern riffleshell (Dysnomia torulosa rangiana)

Status: Endangered

Habitat:Large streams and small rivers in firm sand of riffle areas; also occurs in Lake Erie

Current distribution:  Monroe, Sanilac, Wayne

 

Rayed Bean (Villosa fabalis)

Status: Candidate

Habitat: Belle, Black, Clinton, and Pine Rivers

Current distribution:  Hillsdale, Lenawee, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, St. Clair, and Wayne

 

Plants

American hart's tongue fern (Asplenium scolopendrium var. americanun = Phyllitis japonica ssp. a.)

Status: Threatened

Habitat: Cool limestone sinkholes in mature hardwood forest

Current distribution: Chippewa, Mackinac

 

Dwarf lake iris (Iris lacustris)

Status: Threatened

Habitat: Partially shaded sandy-gravelly soils on lakeshores

Current distribution: Alpena, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Chippewa, Delta, Emmet, Mackinac, Menominee, Presque Isle, Schoolcraft

 

Eastern prairie fringed orchid (Plantathera leucophaea)

Status: Threatened

Habitat: Mesic to wet prairies and meadows

Current distribution: Bay, Cheboygan, Clinton, Eaton, Genesee, Gratiot, Huron, Livingston, Monroe, Saginaw, St. Clair, St. Joseph, Tuscola, Washtenaw, Wayne

 

Houghton's goldenrod (Solidago houghtonii)

Status: Threatened

Habitat: Sandy flats along Great Lakes shores

Current distribution: Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Chippewa, Crawford, Emmet, Kalkaska, Mackinac, Presque Isle, Schoolcraft

 

Lakeside daisy (Hymenoxy acaulis var. glabra)

Status: Threatened

Habitat: Dry, rocky prairie grassland underlain by limestone

Current distribution: Mackinac

 

Michigan monkey-flower (Mimulus glabratus var. michiganesis)

Status: Endangered

Habitat: Soils saturated with cold flowing spring water; found along seepages, streams and lakeshores

Current distribution: Benzie, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Emmet, Leelanau, Mackinac

 

Pitcher's thistle (Cirsium pitcheri)

Status: Threatened

Habitat: Stabilized dunes and blowout areas

Current distribution: Alcona, Alger, Allegan, Alpena, Antrim, Arenac, Benzie, Berrien, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Chippewa, Delta, Emmet, Grand Traverse, Huron, Iosco, Leelanau, Mackinac, Manistee, Mason, Muskegon, Oceana, Ottawa, Presque Isle, Schoolcraft, Van Buren

 

Small whorled pogonia (Isotria medeoloides)

Status: Threatened

Habitat: Dry woodland; upland sites in mixed forests (second or third growth stage)

Current distribution: Berrien

 

List revised November 2008

 

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