ENDANGERED SPECIES:
IOWA

MAMMALS

Indiana bat
Myotis sodalis
Endangered


BIRDS:

American peregrine falcon
Falco peregrinus anatum
Endangered

Bald eagle
Haliaeetus leucocephalus
Threatened

Least tern (Interior population)
Sterna antillarum
Endangered  

Piping plover
Charadrius melodus
Threatened


FISHES

Pallid sturgeon
Scaphirhynchus albus

Endangered

Topeka shiner
Notropis topeka
Proposed as Endangered


CLAMS (Freshwater Mussels, Unionids)

Higgins' eye pearlymussel

Lampsilis higginsi
Endangered


SNAILS

Iowa Pleistocene snail
Discus macclintocki
Endangered


PLANTS

Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid
Platanthera leucophaea
Threatened

Meads Milkweed

Asclepias meadii
Threatened

Northern Wild Monkshood

Aconitum noveboracense
Threatened

Prairie bush-clover
Lespedeza leptostachya
Threatened

Western prairie fringed orchid
Platanthera praeclara
Threatened


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