Md. Code Regs. 08.03.08.08

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 25, December 13, 2024

Section 08.03.08.08 - Threatened Species of Plants

A. Listing Criteria. The following factors shall be considered for listing a plant species as threatened:

(1) Whether the species has experienced a substantial decline in Maryland, and if the decline continues, the species is likely to become endangered;

(2) Whether there has been a steady widespread loss of the species' essential habitat; or

(3) Whether the species has been listed as endangered but it has been shown that protection measures taken have significantly reduced the chances of the species becoming extirpated from Maryland.

B. Permits. The permit procedures to be followed are set forth in Regulation .03 of this chapter. The following apply:

(1) Permits shall be issued only for scientific research designed to enhance the recovery of the species or population;

(2) A person may not:

(a) Export, possess, process, sell, offer for sale, deliver, carry, transport, or ship by any means any threatened plant species except by a special permit from the Director;

(b) Take any threatened plant species from State property except by special permit from the Director; or

(c) Take any threatened plant species from private property without the written permission of the landowner.

C. The following plant species are considered threatened throughout Maryland unless a smaller range is indicated:

(1) Climbing fumitory (Adlumia fungosa);

(2) Purple giant-hyssop (Agastache scrophulariifolia);

(3) Running serviceberry (Amelanchier humilis);

(4) Nantucket shadbush (Amelanchier nantucketensis);

(5) Single-headpussytoes (Antennaria solitaria);

(6) Ozark milkvetch (Astragalus distortus);

(7) Wild false indigo (Baptisia australis);

(8) Buxbaum's sedge (Carex buxbaumii);

(9) Inflated sedge (Carex vesicaria);

(10) Velvety sedge (Carex vestita);

(11) Leatherleaf (Chamaedaphne calyculata);

(12) Red turtlehead (Chelone obliqua);

(13) Giant-seed goosefoot (Chenopodiastrum simplex);

(14) Clinton lily (Clintonia borealis);

(15) Wild bleedinghearts (Dicentra eximia);

(16) Eastern leatherwood (Dirca palustris);

(17) Parker's pipewort (Eriocaulonparkeri);

(18) White trout-lily (Erythronium albidum);

(19) White-bract thoroughwort (Eupatorium leucolepis);

(20) Fringe-top bottle gentian (Gentiana andrewsii);

(21) McDowell's sunflower (Helianthus occidentalis);

(22) Glade fern (Homalosorus pycnocarpus);

(23) Goldenseal (Hydrastis canadensis);

(24) Largeleaf waterleaf (Hydrophyllum macrophyllum);

(25) Coppery St. John's-wort (Hypericum denticulatum);

(26) Pipe vine (Isotrema macrophyllum);

(27) Sandplain flax (Linum intercursum);

(28) Sundial lupine (Lupinusperennis);

(29) Climbing fern (Lygodium palmatum);

(30) Lance-leaf loosestrife (Lysimachia hybrida);

(31) Carolina anglepod (Matelea carolinensis);

(32) Three-flower melicgrass (Melica nitens);

(33) White-grained mountain-ricegrass (Oryzopsis asperifolia);

(34) Walter's paspalum (Paspalum dissectum);

(35) Horse-tail paspalum (Paspalumfluitans);

(36) Coville 'sphacelia (Phacelia covillei);

(37) Roundleaf fameflower (Phemeranthus teretifolius);

(38) White-fringe orchis (Platanthera blephariglottis);

(39) Yellow-fringe orchid (Platanthera ciliaris);

(40) Large purple-fringe orchis (Platanthera grandiflora);

(41) Purple fringeless orchid (Platanthera peramoena);

(42) Bog Jacob's-ladder (Polemonium vanbruntiae);

(43) Crossleaf milkwort (Polygala cruciata);

(44) Racemed milkwort (Polygala polygama);

(45) Seneca snakeroot (Polygala senega);

(46) Allegheny plum (Prunus alleghaniensis);

(47) Whorled mountainmint (Pycnanthemum verticillatum);

(48) Shumard oak (Quercus shumardii);

(49) Hairy snoutbean (Rhynchosia tomentosa);

(50) Long-beaked bald rush (Rhynchospora scirpoides);

(51) Torrey's beakrush (Rhynchospora torreyana);

(52) Michaux 's stitchwort (Sabulina michauxii);

(53) Engelmann's arrowhead (Sagittaria engelmanniana);

(54) Canada burnet (Sanguisorba canadensis);

(55) Northern pitcherplant (Sarracenia purpurea);

(56) One-flower sclerolepis (Sclerolepis uniflora);

(57) Shale barren skullcap (Scutellaria leonardii);

(58) Veined skullcap (Scutellaria nervosa);

(59) Cliff stone crop (Sedum glaucophyllum);

(60) Long-stalk greenbrier (Smilax pseudochina);

(61) Lake Ontario goldenrod (Solidago racemosa);

(62) Showy goldenrod (Solidago speciosa);

(63) Swamp wedgescale (Sphenopholis pensylvanica);

(64) Eastern featherbells (Stenanthium gramineum);

(65) Rosy twisted-stalk (Streptopus lanceolatus);

(66) Snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus);

(67) Mountain parsley (Taenidia montana);

(68) Canadian yew (Taxus canadensis);

(69) Bog fern (Thelypteris simulata);

(70) Northern white cedar (Thuja occidentalis);

(71) Kate's Mountain clover (Trifolium virginicum);

(72) Virginia least trillium (Trillium pusillum var. virginianum);

(73) Purple bladderwort (Utricularia purpurea);

(74) Small cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos); and

(75) Rusty woodsia (Woodsia ilvensis).

Md. Code Regs. 08.03.08.08

Regulations .08 adopted effective June 29, 1987 (14:13 Md. R. 1471)
Regulation .08C amended effective January 22, 2001 (28:1 Md. R. 25); November 10, 2003 (30:22 Md. R. 1578); October 22, 2007 (34:21 Md. R. 1914); April 5, 2010 (37:7 Md. R. 570)
Regulations .08C amended effective December 24, 1990; adopted effective 43:17 Md. R. 953, eff. 8/29/2016; amended effective 48:3 Md. R. 93, eff. 2/8/2021