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Back to North America Regional Overview| TABLE 12. ESTIMATED NUMBER OF NATIVE AND GLOBALLY RARE VASCULAR SPECIES IN NORTH AMERICA | |||
State/province |
Number of native species a |
Number rare(G1G3) b | % rare per state/province |
| U.S.A. Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming |
2870 1300 3510 2140 5510 2630 1820 1610 3080 2980 2360 2220 2020 1600 1730 2000 2400 1680 2210 2000 2040 1790 2300 2100 2160 1520 2850 1610 2130 3290 2360 2770 1170 2010 2320 3130 2210 1430 2500 1460 2350 4500 2960 1620 2580 2380 1840 1860 2240 |
273 125 616 86 1762 313 46 52 452 333 187 53 49 24 34 84 108 54 80 65 58 34 161 74 115 21 495 37 71 399 90 261 18 42 77 367 66 27 204 14 161 439 516 43 151 198 65 43 175 |
9.7 9.6 17.5 4.0 32.0 11.9 2.5 3.2 14.7 11.2 7.9 2.4 2.4 1.5 2.0 4.2 4.5 3.2 3.6 3.3 2.8 1.9 5.0 3.5 5.3 1.4 17.4 2.3 3.3 12.1 3.8 9.4 1.5 2.1 3.3 11.7 3.0 1.9 8.2 1.0 6.9 9.8 17.4 2.7 5.9 8.3 3.5 2.3 7.8 |
| CANADA Alberta British Columbia Franklin (N.W.T.) Keewatin (N.W.T.) Labrador Mackenzie (N.W.T) Manitoba New Brunswick Newfoundland (insular) Nova Scotia Ontario Prince Edward Island Quebec Saskatchewan Yukon |
1710 2360 340 520 710 1030 1510 1110 1000 1150 2330 720 1990 1420 1090 |
50 138 18 12 16 45 27 27 38 35 60 11 78 24 78 |
2.9 5.8 5.3 2.3 2.3 4.4 1.8 2.4 3.8 3.0 2.6 1.5 3.9 1.7 7.2 |
| Note: List includes native full species only. | |||
| Sources: | |||
| a J.T. Kartesz, 1995, pers. comm. b The Network of Natural Heritage Programs and Conservation Data Centers and The Nature Conservancy. |
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