Rare and Endangered Species of Grey and Bruce Counties

This guide book contains an image and description of each of the endangered species for the Grey-Bruce region as well a description of its habit. There are over eight different kinds of species including:

Fish

• Northern Brook Lamprey
• The Ciscos
• Lake Sturgeon
• Redside Dace
• Deepwater Sculpin
• Longear Sunfish
• Golden and Greater Redhorse

Reptiles

• Spotted Turtle
• Wood Turtle
• Eastern Fox Snake
• Queen Snake
• Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake

Birds

• Least Bittern
• Great Egret
• Black-crowned Night-heron
• Bald Eagle
• Red-shouldered Hawk
• Peregrin Falcon
• Piping Plover
• Caspian Tern
• Black Tern
• Short-eared Owl
• Red-headed Woodpecker
• Loggerhead Shrike
• Prairie Warbler
• Cerulean Warbler

Mammals

• Bats
• Eastern Small-footed Bat

Ferns

• Blunt Lobed Grape Fern
• Purple Stemmed Cliffbrake
• Wall Rue
• American Hart's Tongue Fern
• Robert's Fern
• Laurentian Fragile Fern
• Oregon Woodsia

Flowering Plants - Dicotyledons

• Aster Family
• Trail Plant
• Indian Plantain
• Hill's Thistle
• Pitcher Thistle
• Lakeside Daisy
• Cylindrical Blazing Star
• Roundleaf Ragwort
• Houghton's Goldenrod
• Ontario Goldenrod
• Hairy Puccoon
• Lake Cress
• Stiff Gentian
• Stiff Yellow Flax
• Grooved Yellow Flax
• Pine Drops
• Broad Leaved Hawthorn
• Cauwanagha Thorn
• Large While Flowered Ground Cherry
• Spiny Fruit Coontail
• Blueleaf Willow
• Heart Leaved Alexanders
• Ginseng
• Marsh Valerian
• Cooper's Milk Vetch
• Oswego Tea
• Narrow Leaved Mountain Mint
• Gattinger's False Foxglove
• Green Violet

Flowering Plants - Monocotyledons

• Crested Arrowhead
• Arrow Arum
• Appalachian Sedge
• Schweinitz's Sedge
• Rigid Sedge
• Beaked Spikerush
• Low Nut Rush
• Dwarf Lake Iris
• Putty Root
• Autumn Coralroot
• Ram's Head Lady's Slipper
• Tubercled Orchid
• Eastern Prairie White Fringed Orchid
• Large Round Leaved Orchid
• Great Plains Ladies' Tresses

Grasses

• Beach Grass
• Sand Reed Grass
• Great Lakes Wheat Grass
• Canby's Blue Grass
• Northern (Prairie) Dropseed
• Porcupine Grass
• Hill's Pondweed
• Branching Bur Reed