400 KAR 3:040. Endangered or threatened plant lists.
RELATES TO: KRS 146.485, 146.610
STATUTORY AUTHORITY: KRS 146.485, 146.610
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY: KRS 146.610(2)(a) and (b) authorizes the Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission to promulgate administrative regulations for the identification and designation of state threatened or endangered plant species. This administrative regulation establishes the lists of threatened or endangered plant species.
Section 1. Endangered Lists. The following plant species based on the factors in KRS 146.610(2)(a) and 400 KAR 3:020, Section 1, shall be considered endangered In the Commonwealth of Kentucky:
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Scientific Name |
Common Name |
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Vascular Plants |
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Acer spicatum |
Mountain maple |
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Adlumia fungosa |
Climbing fumitory |
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Agalinis auriculata |
Earleaf agalinis |
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Agalinis obtusifolia |
Ten-lobe agalinis |
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Agalinis skinneriana |
Pale false foxglove |
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Amsonia tabernaemontana var. gattingeri |
Eastern blue-star |
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Angelica atropurpurea |
Great angelica |
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Angelica triquinata |
Filmy angelica |
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Apios priceana |
Price's potato-bean |
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Aralia nudicaulis |
Wild Sarsaparilla |
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Berberis Canadensis |
American barberry |
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Bolboschoenus fluviatilis |
River bulrush |
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Botrychium matricariifolium |
Matricary grapefern |
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Calamagrostis porteri ssp. insperata |
Reed bent grass |
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Calamovilfa arcuata |
Cumberland sandgrass |
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Calopogon tuberosus |
Grasspink |
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Carex aestivalis |
Summer sedge |
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Carex atlantica ssp. Capillacea |
Prickly bog sedge |
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Carex joorii |
Cypress-swamp sedge |
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Carex juniperorum |
Cedar sedge |
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Carex leptonervia |
Finely-nerved sedge |
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Carex reniformis |
Reniform sedge |
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Carex roanensis |
Roan mountain sedge |
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Carex tetanica |
Rigid sedge |
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Castanea dentate |
American chestnut |
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Castilleja coccinea |
Scarlet indian paintbrush |
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Cheilanthes feei |
Fee's lip fern |
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Chelone obliqua var. obliqua |
Red turtlehead |
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Chrysogonum virginianum |
Green-and-gold |
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Collinsonia verticillata |
Whorled horse-balm |
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Comptonia peregrina |
Sweet-fern |
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Conradina verticillata |
Cumberland-rosemary |
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Convallaria montana |
American lily-of-the-valley |
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Corallorrhiza maculata |
Spotted coralroot |
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Cymophyllus fraserianus |
Fraser's sedge |
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Cypripedium candidum |
Small white lady's-slipper |
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Cypripedium kentuckiense |
Kentucky lady’s-slipper |
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Deschampsia cespitosa |
Tufted hair grass |
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Draba cuneifolia |
Wedge-leaf whitlow-grass |
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Drosera brevifolia |
Dwarf sundew |
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Drosera intermedia |
Spoon-leaved sundew |
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Echinodorus parvulus |
Dwarf burhead |
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Eriophorum virginicum |
Tawny cotton-grass |
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Eryngium integrifolium |
Blue-flower coyote-thistle |
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Eupatorium semiserratum |
Small-flowered thoroughwort |
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Eurybia hemisphericus |
Southern prairie aster |
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Eurybia radula |
Low rough aster |
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Gentiana flavida |
Yellow gentian |
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Gentiana puberulenta |
Prairie gentian |
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Glyceria acutiflora |
Sharp-scaled manna-grass |
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Goodyera repens |
Lesser rattlesnake-plantain |
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Gymnopogon brevifolius |
Shortleaf skeleton grass |
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Halesia tetraptera |
Common silverbell |
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Helianthemum bicknellii |
Plains frostweed |
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Helianthemum canadense |
Canada frostweed |
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Helianthus silphioides |
Silphium sunflower |
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Hexastylis contracta |
Southern heartleaf |
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Houstonia serpyllifolia |
Michaux's bluets |
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Hydrocotyle americana |
American water-pennywort |
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Hydrocotyle ranunculoides |
Floating pennywort |
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Hydrolea ovata |
Ovate fiddleleaf |
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Iris fulva |
Copper iris |
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Isoetes butleri |
Butler's quillwort |
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Isoetes melanopoda |
Blackfoot quillwort |
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Koeleria macrantha |
June grass |
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Krigia occidentalis |
Western dwarf dandelion |
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Leavenworthia exigua var. laciniata |
Kentucky gladecress |
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Lesquerella globosa |
Globe bladderpod |
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Leucothoe recurva |
Fetterbush |
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Lobelia gattingeri |
Gattinger's lobelia |
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Lonicera dioica var. orientalis |
Wild honeysuckle |
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Lonicera prolifera |
Grape honeysuckle |
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Ludwigia hirtella |
Hairy ludwigia |
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Lycopodiella appressa |
Southern bog club-moss |
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Lycopodiella inundatum |
Northern bog club-moss |
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Lycopodium clavatum |
Running-pine |
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Lysimachia terrestris |
Swamp-candles |
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Maianthemum stellatum |
Starflower false solomon's-seal |
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Marshallia grandiflora |
Large-flowered barbara's-buttons |
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Matelea carolinensis |
Carolina anglepod |
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Melampyrum lineare var. pectinatum |
American cowwheat |
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Melanthium virginicum |
Virginia bunchflower |
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Minuartia cumberlandensis |
Cumberland sandwort |
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Muhlenbergia bushii |
Bush's muhly |
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Nestronia umbellula |
Conjurer's-nut |
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Oenothera linifolia |
Thread-leaf sundrops |
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Oenothera perennis |
Small sundrops |
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Oldenlandia uniflora |
Clustered bluets |
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Onosmodium hispidissimum |
Hairy false gromwell |
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Onosmodium occidentale |
Western false gromwell |
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Parnassia asarifolia |
Kidney-leaf grass-of-parnassus |
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Parnassia grandifolia |
Largeleaf grass-of-parnassus |
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Paronychia argyrocoma |
Silverling |
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Philadelphus pubescens |
Hoary mockorange |
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Phlox bifida ssp. stellaria |
Starry-cleft phlox |
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Platanthera integrilabia |
White fringeless orchid |
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Platanthera psycodes |
Small purple-fringed orchid |
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Poa saltuensis |
Drooping blue grass |
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Pogonia ophioglossoides |
Rose pogonia |
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Polygala cruciata |
Cross-leaf milkwort |
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Polygala paucifolia |
Gaywings |
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Polymnia laevigata |
Tennessee leafcup |
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Potamogeton amplifolius |
Bigleaf pondweed |
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Prenanthes alba |
White rattlesnake-root |
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Prenanthes aspera |
Rough rattlesnake-root |
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Prenanthes barbata |
Barbed rattlesnake-root |
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Ptilimnium nuttallii |
Nuttall's mock bishop's-weed |
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Pycnanthemum albescens |
White-leaved mountain-mint |
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Rhododendron canescens |
Hoary azalea |
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Rhynchosia tomentosa |
Hairy snout-bean |
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Rhynchospora macrostachya |
Tall beakrush |
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Rubus canadensis |
Smooth blackberry |
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Rudbeckia subtomentosa |
Sweet coneflower |
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Sabatia campanulata |
Slender marsh-pink |
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Sagittaria rigida |
Sessile-fruit arrowhead |
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Salvia urticifolia |
Nettle-leaf sage |
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Sambucus racemosa ssp. pubens |
Red elderberry |
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Sanguisorba canadensis |
Canada burnet |
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Saxifraga micranthidifolia |
Lettuce-leaf saxifrage |
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Schisandra glabra |
Bay starvine |
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Schoenoplectis hallii |
Hall's bulrush |
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Scirpus expansus |
Woodland bulrush |
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Scleria ciliata |
Fringed nut-rush |
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Scutellaria arguta |
Hairy skullcap |
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Silene ovata |
Ovate catchfly |
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Silene regia |
Royal catchfly |
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Solidago shortii |
Short's goldenrod |
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Sparganium eurycarpum |
Large bur-reed |
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Spiraea alba |
Narrow-leaved meadowsweet |
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Spiranthes odorata |
Sweetscent ladies'-tresses |
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Sporobolus heterolepis |
Northern dropseed |
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Symphoricarpos albus |
Snowberry |
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Talinum calcaricum |
Limestone fameflower |
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Talinum teretifolium |
Roundleaf fameflower |
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Tephrosia spicata |
Spiked hoary-pea |
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Thermopsis mollis |
Soft-haired thermopsis |
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Toxicodendron vernix |
Poison sumac |
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Tragia urticifolia |
Nettle-leaf noseburn |
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Trichophorum planifolium |
Bashful bulrush |
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Trichostema setaceum |
Narrow-leaved bluecurls |
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Trientalis borealis |
Northern starflower |
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Trifolium reflexum |
Buffalo clover |
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Trillium nivale |
Snow trillium |
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Trillium pusillum |
Least trillium |
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Utricularia macrorhiza |
Greater bladderwort |
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Vaccineum erythrocarpum |
Highbush cranberry |
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Veratrum parviflorum |
Small-flowered false hellebore |
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Viburnum latanoides |
Alderleaf viburnum |
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Viburnum nudum |
Possum haw viburnum |
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Xyris difformis |
Carolina yellow-eye-grass |
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Mosses |
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Brachythecium populeum |
Matted feather moss |
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Bryum cyclophyllum |
A moss |
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Bryum miniatum |
A moss |
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Dicranodontium asperulum |
A moss |
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Entodon brevisetus |
A moss |
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Herzogiella turfacea |
A moss |
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Oncophorus raui |
A moss |
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Orthotrichum diaphanum |
A moss |
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Polytrichum strictum |
A haircap moss |
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Sphagnum quinquefarium |
A sphagnum moss |
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Tortula norvegica |
Tortula |
Section 2. Threatened Lists. The following plant species, based on the factors in KRS 146.610(2)(a) and the criteria listed in 400 KAR 3:020, Section 1, shall be considered threatened in the Commonwealth of Kentucky:
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Scientific Name |
Common Name |
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Aconitum uncinatum |
Blue monkshood |
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Adiantum capillus-veneris |
Southern maidenhair-fern |
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Aesculus pavia |
Red buckeye |
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Agrimonia gryposepala |
Tall hairy groovebur |
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Amianthium muscitoxicum |
Fly-poison |
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Arabis hirsuta |
Hairy rockcress |
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Arabis perstellata |
Braun's rockcress |
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Armoracia lacustris |
Lake cress |
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Baptisia tinctoria |
Yellow wild indigo |
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Bartonia virginica |
Yellow screwstem |
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Berchemia scandens |
Supplejack |
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Boykinia aconitifolia |
Brook saxifrage |
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Cabomba caroliniana |
Carolina fanwort |
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Calamagrostis porteri ssp. porteri |
Porter's reed grass |
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Calycanthus floridus var. glaucus |
Sweetshrub |
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Carex alata |
Broadwing sedge |
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Carex appalachica |
Appalachian sedge |
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Carex crebriflora |
Coastal plain sedge |
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Carex decomposita |
Epiphytic sedge |
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Carex gigantea |
Large sedge |
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Carex rugosperma |
Umbel-like sedge |
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Carex straminea |
Straw sedge |
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Carya aquatica |
Water hickory |
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Carya carolinae-septentrionalis |
Southern shagbark hickory |
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Castanea pumila |
Allegheny chinkapin |
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Ceanothus herbaceus |