Appalachian elktoe [SEP] IUCN conservation status
the species' decline.
Recovery plan.
In August 1996, a recovery plan was published in order to save the endangered mussels. It is a regional plan that includes all the areas where the species currently lives, and also areas where the species was thought to live in the past.
The ultimate goal of the recovery plan is, of course, to upgrade the species off the Endangered Species List. Presently the Appalachian elktoe is considered critically endangered, and it is unknown if they are still in fact actively
temperate North America. European movements were not the cause of this migration because carbon dating reveals that the plant was in the Little Tennessee river valley 3000 years ago. Despite little apparent food value, native aborigines may have had uses of "M. verticillata" that are unclear today. Carpetweed, also referred to as "Indian chickweed", was utilized as a potherb by the Southern Appalachian aborigines.
Conservation status.
Carpetweed is considered to be globally secure. It is also credited as an invasive weed by USDA.gov. IUCN