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VOL. II NO. 09 05/01/2021

State Updates Town’s Endangered Species Lists

The state has published proposed updates to their listed rare, threatened and endangered species, for every city and town in the Commonwealth.

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Here is the complete list for Stockbridge:

COMMON NAME / SCIENTIFIC NAME	TYPE	STATUS	LAST SEEN
Adder’s Tongue Fern / Ophioglossum pusillum	Vascular Plant	Threatened	1920
American Bittern / Botaurus lentiginosus	Bird	Endangered	2017
Arborvitae / Thuja occidentalis	Vascular Plant	Endangered	2017
Bald Eagle / Haliaeetus leucocephalus	Bird	Threatened	2016
Boreal Marstonia / Marstonia lustrica	Snail	Endangered	2016
Bridle Shiner / Notropis bifrenatus	Fish	Special Concern	2018
Bristly Buttercup / Ranunculus pensylvanicus	Vascular Plant	Special Concern	1902
Brook Snaketail / Ophiogomphus aspersus	Dragonfly/Damselfly	Special Concern	2008
Bur Oak / Quercus macrocarpa	Vascular Plant	Special Concern	2016
Climbing Fumitory / Adlumia fungosa	Vascular Plant	Special Concern	2009
Clustered Sanicle / Sanicula odorata	Vascular Plant	Threatened	1912
Common Gallinule / Gallinula galeata	Bird	Special Concern	2009
Creeper / Strophitus undulatus	Mussel	Special Concern	2009
Culver’s-root / Veronicastrum virginicum	Vascular Plant	Threatened	1902
Dion Skipper / Euphyes dion	Butterfly/Moth	Threatened	2009
Downy Arrow-wood / Viburnum rafinesqueanum	Vascular Plant	Endangered	2013
Downy Wood-mint / Blephilia ciliata	Vascular Plant	Endangered	1916
Dwarf Scouring Rush / Equisetum scirpoides	Vascular Plant	Special Concern	2015
Fen Cuckoo-flower / Cardamine dentata	Vascular Plant	Threatened	2012
Fen Sedge / Carex tetanica	Vascular Plant	Special Concern	1985
Few-flowered Spike-sedge / Eleocharis quinqueflora	Vascular Plant	Endangered	2002
Gattinger’s Panic-grass / Panicum philadelphicum ssp. gattingeri	Vascular Plant	Special Concern	1983
Giant St. John’s-wort / Hypericum ascyron	Vascular Plant	Endangered	1899
Great Blue Lobelia / Lobelia siphilitica	Vascular Plant	Endangered	2020
Handsome Sedge / Carex formosa	Vascular Plant	Threatened	2005
Hemlock-parsley / Conioselinum chinense	Vascular Plant	Special Concern	2009
Hill’s Pondweed / Potamogeton hillii	Vascular Plant	Special Concern	2002
Hitchcock’s Sedge / Carex hitchcockiana	Vascular Plant	Special Concern	1912
Jefferson Salamander (complex) / Ambystoma jeffersonianum	Amphibian	Special Concern	2013
Labrador Bedstraw / Galium labradoricum	Vascular Plant	Threatened	2017
Large-bracted Tick-trefoil / Desmodium cuspidatum	Vascular Plant	Threatened	1993
Long-leaved Bluet / Houstonia longifolia	Vascular Plant	Endangered	2010
Longnose Sucker / Catostomus catostomus	Fish	Special Concern	2010
Lyre-leaved Rock-cress / Arabidopsis lyrata	Vascular Plant	Endangered	2013
Marbled Salamander / Ambystoma opacum	Amphibian	Threatened	2013
Mossy Valvata / Valvata sincera	Snail	Endangered	2019
Northern Wild Comfrey / Cynoglossum virginianum var. boreale	Vascular Plant	Endangered	1904
Ogden’s Pondweed / Potamogeton ogdenii	Vascular Plant	Endangered	2006
Pied-billed Grebe / Podilymbus podiceps	Bird	Endangered	Historic
Pink Pyrola / Pyrola asarifolia	Vascular Plant	Endangered	1983
Pitcher Plant Borer Moth / Papaipema appassionata	Butterfly/Moth	Threatened	2020
Purple Giant Hyssop / Agastache scrophulariifolia	Vascular Plant	Endangered	1902
Purple Milkweed / Asclepias purpurascens	Vascular Plant	Endangered	1920
Rich Woods Sedge / Carex oligocarpa	Vascular Plant	Threatened	Historic
Round-leaved Shadbush / Amelanchier sanguinea	Vascular Plant	Special Concern	1985
Sedge Wren / Cistothorus platensis	Bird	Endangered	2008
Sessile Water-speedwell / Veronica catenata	Vascular Plant	Endangered	1925
Skillet Clubtail / Gomphurus ventricosus	Dragonfly/Damselfly	Threatened	2008
Slender Cottongrass / Eriophorum gracile	Vascular Plant	Threatened	2016
Small Bur-reed / Sparganium natans	Vascular Plant	Endangered	1991
Small Dropseed / Sporobolus neglectus	Vascular Plant	Endangered	1983
Smooth Rock-cress / Boechera laevigata	Vascular Plant	Special Concern	2016
Swamp Birch / Betula pumila	Vascular Plant	Endangered	2017
Tiny Cow-lily / Nuphar microphylla	Vascular Plant	Endangered	1902
Tuckerman’s Sedge / Carex tuckermanii	Vascular Plant	Endangered	2008
Tule Bluet / Enallagma carunculatum	Dragonfly/Damselfly	Special Concern	1917
Wapato / Sagittaria cuneata	Vascular Plant	Threatened	1922
White Adder’s-mouth / Malaxis monophyllos ssp. brachypoda	Vascular Plant	Endangered	1984
Whorled Water-milfoil / Myriophyllum verticillatum	Vascular Plant	Endangered	2017
Wood Turtle / Glyptemys insculpta	Reptile	Special Concern	2002

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