False-rue anemone COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 1

Assessment Summary

Assessment Summary – May 2005

Common name: False Rue-anemone

Scientific name: Enemion Biternatum

Status: Threatened

Reason for designation: A delicate, spring-flowering, perennial herb restricted to a few fragmented riverside forest sites in southwestern Ontario where its populations are at risk from habitat loss and decline in quality due to a variety of activities including recreational trail use, and expansion of exotic invasive plants.

Occurrence: Ontario

Status history: Designated Special Concern in April 1990. Status re-examined and designated Threatened in May 2005. Last assessment based on an update status report.

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