Endangered

  • Wildflowers, Grasses and Other Nonwoody Plants

  • Image of running buffalo clover
    Running Buffalo Clover
    Trifolium stoloniferum
    Running buffalo clover spreads by sending out long, creeping runners. Now endangered, this native perennial once flourished along streams and buffalo trails throughout the grasslands of the eastern and central United States.
  • Photo of a western prairie fringed orchid plant with flowers
    Western Prairie Fringed Orchid
    Platanthera praeclara
    Western prairie fringed orchid is endangered and known only from a few northwestern locations in our state. Learn about this showy native wildflower of Missouri’s western prairies, and why it’s so important to preserve our remaining tallgrass prairies.
  • Virginia sneezeweed flowers in bloom
    Virginia Sneezeweed
    Helenium virginicum
    Virginia sneezeweed is the rarest of Missouri’s four sneezeweeds. A state endangered and federally threatened species, it occurs in about 60 sites in our southern Ozark counties, primarily in boggy, sinkhole pond habitats.