Over 1,900 plant and creature species have been added to the endangered or threatened leaning under the Endangered Species Act since its inception in 1973 . Of these , the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service lists 719 metal money of flowering plant , some of which grow in only a handful of sites in very restricted kitchen stove . A heavy legal age of these menace species occur at least in part on privately handle res publica , where public and private stakeholder bring to bring as many species as potential back to self - sustaining levels .

Mead’s Milkweed (Asclepias meadii)

A indigen of the American prairies , the range of this pick - flowered milkweed once extend from Wisconsin to Missouri , but the plant life now occurs only in sprinkle expanse in Illinois , Iowa , Kansas and Missouri . Mead ’s silkweed was also lately re - introduced in Indiana .

Four-Petal Pawpaw (Asimina tetramera)

This shrubby relative of the tropical papaya is found in only two counties on the eastern coast of Florida . Only several XII individuals remain , and these reproduce slowly , though the plant regenerate fleetly and multiplies after being razed by fervidness . Like its pawpaw cousin-german to the north , the yield are edible and relished by raccoons , tortoises and mouse .

Bush’s Poppy-Mallow (Callirhoe bushii)

Vibrant Battle of Magenta in color and shaped like wine-coloured cups , the bloom of this American prairie native are what make the plant memorable . more or less 50 land site in Kansas , Missouri , Oklahoma and Arkansas comprise the works ’s present - day range .

Miner’s Candle (Cryptantha subcapitata)

Throughout most of the yr , the argent - green foliation of this stubby , high-pitched desert plant life resembles most of its neighbors in the Wind River washstand of Fremont County in Wyoming . But the mineworker ’s candle , identify for its brilliant , lily-white , five - petaled bloom , lie in of only three population in a 1,400 - Akko field .

Okeechobee Gourd (Cucurbita okeechobeensis)

Once common along the shores of Florida ’s St. John ’s River and Lake Okeechobee , this eponymous gourd must trust on nearby trees to rise so as to successfully flower and fruit . But as the field changed for development and agriculture , the Okeechobee gourd dwindle . It remains of high interest group to science , however , for its rude underground to many plebeian veggie pathogen , include powdery mildew and cucumber mosaic computer virus .

Tennessee Coneflower (Echinacea tennesseensis)

This extremely rarefied wildflower was the 2nd species name after the Endangered Species Act lead into core in 1973 . guess to be extinct until re - discovered in middle Tennessee in the 1970s , several sites were destroyed shortly after by development and building . The industrial plant is restricted to only five populations in a 14 - sea mile wheel spoke .

Appalachian Avens (Geum radiatum)

Growing on bumpy clifftops in the Appalachian deal of North Carolina , Tennessee and Virginia , this native wild flower produce hopeful yellowish , buttercup - like flowers during its autumn blooming period . Geum radiatum now grows in only 11 sites , and several of these land site have less than a dozen individual plants .

Desert Sunflower (Helianthus niveus ssp. tephrodes)

The desert helianthus , as the name implies , raise in the backbone - dune deserts of Baja California , southerly Arizona and scattered sites up through northerly California . The plant is only known to develop in four sites within this region . Illegal unpaid vehicle use continues to threaten the future of this industrial plant .

Biddle’s Lupine (Lupinus biddlei)

Like other lupines , Biddle ’s lupine sport a flamboyant spike of flowers above dark green , palm - shaped leaf . This metal money is set up on rocky slope and pitiable soil in two geographically distinct areas in westerly Oregon .

Plymouth Rose Gentian (Sabatia kennedyana)

The confect - pinkish bloom of this endangered wild flower resemble daisy , and settlement once uprise along the Atlantic coastline from Nova Scotia to South Carolina . The rose gentian now go on only in scatter situation throughout its former range of mountains , and population numbers vary widely depending on one-year rain amounts .

Madrean Ladies' Tresses (Spiranthes delitescens)

This Arizona metal money of terrestrial orchidaceous plant grow at elevations of around 5,000 feet , preferring marshy growing conditions . Four fuck sites survive , three of which are on private grazing lands , and other population may also be present in Mexico . case-by-case plants rarely live longer than four years .

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