List of Rare Plant Species of North Carolina

North Carolina Natural Heritage Program

This list includes North Carolina legal status information from the N.C. Plant Conservation Program (NCPCP), a unit of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and the agency responsible for the listing and protection of North Carolina’s endangered and threatened plants, under provisions of the North Carolina Plant Protection and Conservation Act (N.C. General Statutes - Chapter 106 Article 19B). The NCPCP List of North Carolina’s Endangered, Threatened and Special Concern Plant Species can be found on the website: http://www.ncagr.gov/plantindustry/plant/plantconserve/. The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC) is responsible for the listing and protection of the state’s nongame species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, freshwater fishes, mollusks, and crustaceans, under N.C. General Statutes - Chapter 113 Article 25. The NCNHP, NCPCP, NCWRC, and USFWS work cooperatively to ensure the continued survival of all of North Carolina’s rich flora and fauna. Over the past 25 years and continuing in the future, the advice and protection designations (for example, Endangered, Threatened, and Special Concern) of scientific councils and committees have been considered in the creation of the list. This list is dynamic and is revised frequently as new data become available. New species are added to the list, and others are dropped from the list as appropriate. The list is published every two years.