The endangered plant list of Tennessee includes the following:
Latin Name | Common Name |
Aconitum reclinatum A. Gray | trailing white monkshood |
Agalinis auriculata (Michx.) Blake | ear-leaved false-foxglove |
Agalinis decemloba (Greene) Pennel | ten lobe false foxglove |
Agalinis heterophylla (Nutt.) Small ex Britton | prairie false foxglove |
Agalinis oligophylla Pennell | ridge-stem false foxglove |
Agalinis plukenetii (Ell.) Raf | purple gerardia |
Anemone caroliniana Walt. | Carolina anemone |
Anthoxanthum hirtum (Schrank) Y. Schouten & Veldkamp | hairy sweetgrass |
Apios priceana Robbins | Price's potato-bean |
Arenaria lanuginosa (Michx.) Rohrback | wooly sandwort |
Aristida ramosissima Engelm. ex Gray | branched three-awn grass |
Asplenium scolopendrium L. var. americanum (Fern.) Kartesz & Gandhi | Hart's-tongue fern |
Astragalus bibullatus Barneby and Bridges | Pyne's ground-plum |
Betula papyrifera Marsh var. cordifolia (Regel) Fern. | heart-leaved paper birch |
Blephilia subnuda Simmers & Kral | Cumberland pagoda-plant |
Blephilia woffordii Floden | Caney Fork woodmint |
Boechera patens (Sull.) Al-Shehbaz | spreading rockcress |
Boechera perstellata (E. L. Braun) Al-Shehbaz | Braun's rockcress |
Brachydontium trichodes (Web.) Milde | peak moss |
Botrychium simplex E. Hitchc. | least moonwort |
Bulbostylis ciliatifolia (Ell.) Fern. var. coarctata (Ell.) Kral | capillary hairsedge |
Calamagrostis cainii Hitchcock | Cain's reedgrass |
Calamagrostis porteri A. Gray | Porter's reedgrass |
Caltha palustris L. | marsh marigold |
Campanula rotundifolia L. | bluebell bellflower |
Carex barrattii Schweinitz and Torr. | Barratt's sedge |
Carex buxbaumii Wahlenb. | Buxbaum's sedge |
Carex canescens L. ssp. disjuncta Fern. | hoary sedge |
Carex fumosimontana Estes | Smoky Mountain sedge |
Carex interior L. H. Bailey | inland sedge |
Carex lonchocarpa Willd. ex Spreng. | southern long sedge |
Carex manhartii Bryson | Manhart's sedge |
Carex muskingumensis Schweinitz | Muskingum sedge |
Carex pallescens L. | pale sedge |
Carex pellita Willd. | woolly sedge |
Carex tetanica Schkuhr | rigid sedge |
Carex utriculata Boott | Northwest Territory sedge |
Cephaloziella messalongi (Spruce) K. Muell. | a liverwort |
Cerastium velutinum Raf. | velvety cerastium |
Chelone obliqua L. | red turtlehead |
Clematis fremontii S. Wats. | Fremont's Leather Flower |
Clematis v inacea Floden | wine colored leatherflower |
Clematis morefieldii Kral | Huntsville vasevine |
Clethra alnifolia L. | coastal pepperbush |
Coeloglossum viride (L.) Hartman | long-bracted green orchid |
var. virescens (Muhl. ex Willd.) Luer | |
Collinsia verna Nutt. | blue-eyed Mary |
Comptonia peregrina (L.) Coulter | sweet-fern |
Coreopsis latifolia Michx. | broad-leaved tickseed |
Crataegus harbisonii Beadle | Harbison's hawthorn |
Cypripedium kentuckiense Reed | southern lady's-slipper |
Cypripedium reginae Walt. | showy lady's-slipper |
Dalea foliosa (A. Gray) Barneby | leafy prairie-clover |
Dalea purpurea Vent. | purple prairie-clover |
Delphinium exaltatum Ait. | tall larkspur |
Desmodium ochroleucum M.A. Curtis ex Canby | creamflower tick-trefoil |
Diamorpha smallii Britt. | Small's stonecrop |
Dichanthelium acuminatum ssp. spretum (Schult.) Freckmann & Lelong | Eaton's witchgrass |
Dichanthelium ensifolium ssp. curtifolium (Nash) Freckmann & Lelong | short-leaved panic grass |
Echinacea pallida (Nutt.) Nutt. | pale purple coneflower |
Eleocharis elliptica Kunth | elliptic spike rush |
Eleocharis equisetoides (Ell.) Torr. | horse-tail spike-rush |
Eleocharis intermedia J.A. Schultes | matted spike rush |
Eleocharis wolfii A. Gray | Wolf's spike rush |
Eriocaulon decangulare L. | ten-angle pipewort |
Eriogonum harperi Goodman | Harper's umbrella-plant |
Eriophorum virginicum L. | tawny cotton grass |
Erysimum capitatum (Dougl.) Greene | western wallflower |
Eupatorium leucolepis (DC.) Torr. and A. Gray | white-bracted thoroughwort |
Eurybia saxicastelli (J. J. N. Campbell & Medley) G. L. Nesom | Rockcastle aster |
Euthamia gymnospermoides Green | Great Plains goldentop |
Fimbristylis perpusilla Harper | Harper's fimbristylis |
Gentiana puberulenta J.S. Pringle | prairie gentian |
Geum aleppicum Jacq. | yellow avens |
Geum geniculatum Michx. | bent avens |
Geum radiatum Michx. | spreading avens |
Glyceria laxa (Scribn.) Scribn. | limp manna grass |
Gratiola floridana Nutt. | Florida hedge-hyssop |
Hedyotis purpurea (L.) Torr. & A.Gray var. montana (Small) Fosberg | Roan Mountain bluet |
Helenium brevifolium (Nutt.) Wood | shortleaf sneezeweed |
Helianthemum canadense (L.) Michx. | Canada frostweed |
Helianthemum propinquum E.P. Bicknell | low frostweed |
Helianthus verticillatus Small | whorled sunflower |
Heteranthera missouriensis C.N. Horn | bouquet mud plantain |
Homaliadelphus sharpii (Williams) Sharp | Sharp's homaliadelphus moss |
Hydrocotyle americana L. | American water-pennywort |
Hypericum adpressum Barton | creeping St. John's-wort |
Hypericum ellipticum Hook. | pale St. John's-wort |
Hypericum graveolens Bickl. | mountain St. John's-wort |
Iris brevicaulis Raf. | Lamance iris |
Isoetes appalachiana D.F.Brunton & D.M.Britton | Appalachian quillwort |
Isoetes melanopoda Gay and Durieu | blackfoot quillwort |
Isoetes tennesseensis N.T. Luebke & J.M. Budke | Hiwassee quillwort |
Isotria medeoloides (Pursh) Raf. | small whorled pogonia |
Lachnanthes caroliana (Lam.) | Carolina redroot |
Lachnocaulon anceps (Walter) Morong | whitehead bogbutton |
Lechea pulchella Raf. | Leggett's pinweed |
Lejeunea sharpii (Schust.) Schust. | Sharp's lejeunia |
Leptodontium viticulosoides var. sulphureum (Müller Hal.) R. H. Zander | Grandfather Mountain leptodontium |
Leptohymenium sharpii (Crum & Anders.) Buck & Crum | Mount Le Conte moss |
Leptoscyphus cuneifolius (Hook.) Mitt. | a liverwort |
Lilium grayi S. Wats. | Gray's lily |
Lilium philadelphicum L. | wood lily |
Lithospermum parviflorum Weakley, Witsell & D. Estes | softhair marbleseed |
Lithospermum subsetosum (Mack. & Bush) Weakley, Witsell, & D. Estes | smooth false gromwell |
Lonicera prolifera (Kirchner) Rehder | grape honeysuckle |
Lysimachia fraseri Duby | Fraser's loosestrife |
Lysimachia quadriflora Sims | fourflower yellow loosestrife |
Lysimachia terrestris (L.) BSP. | swamp loosestrife |
Maianthemum stellatum (L.) Link | starflower false solomon's-seal |
Marshallia grandiflora Beadle and Boynton | large-flowered Barbara's-buttons |
Marshallia obovata (Walt.) Beadle & F.E. Boynton | spoonshape Barbara's buttons |
Marsupella funckii (Web. & Mohr) Dumort. | a liverwort |
Melanthium latifolium Desr. | broadleaf bunchflower |
Melanthium virginicum L. | Virginia bunchflower |
Minuartia cumberlandensis (Wofford & Kral) McNeill | Cumberland sandwort |
Minuartia godfreyi (Shinners) McNeill | Godfrey's stitchwort |
Minuartia groenlandica (Retzius) Ostenfeld | mountain sandwort |
Muhlenbergia cuspidata (Torr.) Rydb. | plains muhly |
Muhlenbergia torreyana (Shult.) Hitchcock | Torrey's dropseed |
Myriophyllum pinnatum (Walt.) B.S.P. | cutleaf Watermilfoil |
Nabalis asper (Michx.) Torr. & A. Gray | rough rattlesnake root |
Nestronia umbellula Raf. | conjurer's nut |
Packera crawfordii (Britt.) A.M. Mahoney & R.R. Lowal | Crawford's ragwort |
Patis racemosa (Sm.) Romasch., P.M. Peterson & R. J. Soreng | mountain ricegrass |
Paxistima canbyi A. Gray | Canby's mountain-lover |
Paysonia perforata (Rollins) O'Kane & Al-Shehbaz | Spring Creek bladderpod |
Paysonia stonensis (Rollins) O'Kane & Al-Shehbaz | Stones River bladderpod |
Penstemon kralii D. Estes | Kral's beardtongue |
Penstemon tubiflorus Nutt. | white wand beard tongue |
Perideridia americana (Nutt. ex DC.) Reichenb. | thicket parsley |
Phegopteris connectilis (Michx.) Watt | long beech fern |
Physaria globosa (Desv.) O'Kane | globe bladderpod |
Pityopsis ruthii (Small) Small | Ruth's golden-aster |
Plantago cordata Lam. | heart-leaved plantain |
Platanthera grandiflora (Bigelow) Lindl. | large purple fringed orchid |
Platanthera integra (Nutt.) A. Gray ex Beck | yellow fringeless orchid |
Platanthera integrilabia (Correll) Luer | white fringeless orchid |
Platanthera nivea (Nutt.) Luer | snowy orchid |
Poa palustris L. | owl bluegrass |
Pogonia ophioglossoides (L.) Ker-Gawl. | rose pogonia |
Polygala nana (Michx.) DC. | dwarf milkwort |
Polygala nuttallii Torr. and A. Gray | Nuttall's milkwort |
Polygonella americana (Fisch. and Mey) | small southern jointweed |
Ponthieva racemosa (Walt.) Mohr | shadow-witch |
Porella gracillima | hot porella |
Prunus pumila L. | sand cherry |
Pycnanthemum beadlei (Small) Fern. | Beadle's mountain mint |
Pycnanthemum torrei Benth. | Torrey's mountain mint |
Pycnanthemum verticillatum (Michx.) Pers. | whorled mountain-mint |
Pyrola americana Sweet | American wintergreen |
Ranunculus aquatilis var. diffusus Withering | eastern white water crowfoot |
Rhamnus alnifolia L'Her | alderleaf buckthorn |
Rhynchosia latifolia Nutt. | prairie snoutbean |
Rhynchospora capillacea Torr. | horned beak-rush |
Rhynchospora debilis Gale | savannah beak-rush |
Rhynchospora rariflora (Michx.) Ell. | few-flowered beak-rush |
Rudbeckia triloba var. beadlei (Small) Fernald | browneyed susan |
Rugelia nudicaulis Shuttlw. ex Chapman | Rugel's ragwort |
Sabatia capitata (Raf.) Blake | rose gentian |
Sagittaria rigida Pursh | sessile-fruited arrowhead |
Sanguisorba canadensis L. | canada burnet |
Saxifraga caroliniana A. Gray | Carolina saxifrage |
Saxifraga pensylvanica L. | swamp saxifrage |
Schoenoplectus subterminalis (Torr.) Sojak | swaying bulrush |
Scutellaria arguta Buckl. | hairy skullcap |
Sedum nevii A. Gray | Nevius' stonecrop |
Silene ovata Pursh | ovate catchfly |
Silphium brachiatum Gattinger | Cumberland rosinweed |
Solidago gattingeri Chapm. | Gattinger's goldenrod |
Solidago lancifolia Torr. and A. Gray | broadleaf goldenrod |
Solidago porteri Small | Porter's goldenrod |
Solidago ptarmicoides (Nees) Bovin | prairie goldenrod |
Solidago rupestris Raf. | rock goldenrod |
Solidago spithamaea M.A. Curtis | Blue Ridge goldenrod |
Sparganium androcladum (Engelm.) Morong | branching bur-reed |
Sphenolobopsis pearsoni (Spruce) Shust. & Kitag. | a liverwort |
Spiraea alba DuRoi | narrow-leaved meadow-sweet |
Spiraea virginiana Britt. | Virginia spiraea |
Spiranthes magnicamporum Sheviak | Great Plains ladies'-tresses |
Spiranthes ochroleuca (Rydb.) Rydb. | yellow nodding ladies'-tresses |
Spiranthes odorata (Nutt.) Lindl. | sweetscent ladies'-tresses |
Sporobolus junceus (P.Beauv.) Kunth | Piney-woods dropseed |
Stachys appalachiana D.B. Poind. & J.B. Nelson | Appalachian hedge-nettle |
Stellaria alsine Grimm | trailing stitchwort |
Stenanthium diffusum Wofford | Cumberland featherbells |
Sullivantia sullivantii (Torr. & Gray) Britt. | Sullivan's coolwort |
Symphyotrichum ericoides (L.) G.L. Nesom var. ericoides | bushy aster |
Symphyotrichum pratense (Rafinesque) Nesom | barrens silky aster |
Symplocarpus foetidus (L.) Nutt. | skunk-cabbage |
Taxus canadensis Marsh. | American yew |
Thaspium pinnatifidum (Buckley) A. Gray | cutleaf meadow parsnip |
Tortula ammonsiana Crum & Anders. | Ammon's tortula |
Tortula fragilis Tayl. | fragile tortula |
Triantha glutinosa (Walter) Small | sticky false asphodel |
Triantha racemosa (Walter) Small | coastal false-asphodel |
Tridens flavus (L.) Hitchc. var. chapmanii (Small) Shinners | purpletop tridens |
Trichophorum cespitosum (L.) Hartman | tufted club-rush |
Trifolium calcaricum J.L. Collins & Wieboldt | running glade clover |
Trifolium reflexum L. | buffalo clover |
Trillium decumbens Harbison | trailing trillium |
Trillium lancifolium Raf. | narrow-leaved trillium |
Trillium pusillum Michx. | least trillium |
Trillium rugelii Rendle | southern nodding trillium |
Trillium tennesseense E.E. Schill. & Floden | Tennessee trillium |
Utricularia cornuta Michx. | horned bladderwort |
Vaccinium elliottii Chapm. | mayberry |
Veronica catenata Pennell | sessile water-speedwell |
Veronica scutellata L. | marsh-speedwell |
Viburnum molle Michx. | softleaf arrow-wood |
Vitis rupestris Scheele | rock grape |
Xyris ambigua Beyr. ex. Kunth. | coastal-plain yellow-eyed-grass |
Xyris fimbriata Ell. | fringed yellow-eyed-grass |
Xyris tennesseensis R. Kral | Tennessee yellow-eyed-grass |
Zigadenus glaucus Nutt. | white camas |
Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 0400-06-02-.04
Authority: T.C.A. §§ 4-5-201, et seq., and 70-8-301, et seq.