Lanai Sandalwood

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Conservation status: Endangered

Habitat: mesic forest at high elevetions

Islands where they can be found: Maui, Lana'i, and Moloka'i

Lau `ehu

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Conservation status: Endangered

Habitat: coastal shrubland

Islands where they can be found: Niihau and Kaua'i

Laulihilihi

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Conservation status: Endangered

Habitat: lowland to montane mesic forest or shrubland

Islands where they can be found: Kaua'i

Lehua Makanoe

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Conservation status: Endangered

Habitat: mixed wetlands

Islands where they can be found: Kaua'i

Liliwai

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Conservation status: Critically Endangered

Habitat: Dry to mesic forests and shrub lands

Islands where they can be found: Kauai, Oahu, and Molokai

Loulu

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Conservation status: Endangered

Habitat: coastal mesic forests and valleys

Islands where they can be found: O'ahu

Ma`oli`oli

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Conservation status: Endangered

Habitat: mesic to wet forest, grasslands and shrublands

Islands where they can be found: O'ahu

Mahoe

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Conservation status: Endangered

Habitat: dry to mesic lowland forest

Islands where they can be found: Kaua'i, O'ahu, Moloka'i, and Maui

Makou

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Conservation status: Threatened

Habitat: mixed shrub coastal dry cliffs

Islands where they can be found: Kaua'i, O'ahu, Moloka'i, and Maui

Mann's Bluegrass

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Conservation status: Endangered

Habitat: lowland and montane mesic forest

Islands where they can be found: Kaua'i

Mapele

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Conservation status: Endangered

Habitat: lowland or montane wet forest or shrubland

Islands where they can be found: Kaua'i

Maui Reedgrass

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Conservation status: Endangered

Habitat: wet forest and open wetlands

Islands where they can be found: Maui and Island of Hawai'i

Maui Remya

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Conservation status: Endangered

Habitat: north or northeast-facing slopes in mixed mesophytic forests

Islands where they can be found: Maui

Mauna Loa Silversword

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Conservation status: Threatened

Habitat: Subalpine shrub lands

Islands where they can be found: Mauna Loa on the Big Island

Mehamehame

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Conservation status: Endangered

Habitat: dry to mesic forest

Islands where they can be found: Maui, Moloka'i, O'ahu, Kaua'i and Island of Hawai'i