The Botanical Assessment Working Group has recently reassessed the ranks of seven species. A summary of the reassessments can be found below. This brings the total number of taxa reassessed by BAWG to 28. In addition, BAWG has considered the tracking status of seven other species and has made changes to those tracking statuses in advance of formal rank reassessments. Reassessments for these species will be conducted in the fall.
Please note that every effort has been made to ensure that this list is accurate; however, the lists provided on our lists page are the final authority for this type of information.
For more information on the ranking process, please see our ranking page. If you have a plant taxon that you believe should be a priority for a rank reassessment, please contact the SKCDC botanist.
Taxa with S-ranks Recently Reassessed or Tracking Statuses Changed
| Scientific Name | Common Name | New (or current) S-rank | Old S-rank | Notes |
| Corispermum americanum var. americanum | American Bugseed | S3? | S1 | Remains on the tracking list; previous assessment was based on incomplete information |
| Corispermum hookeri var. hookeri | Hooker’s Bugseed | S1 | SNR | Newly added to the tracking list |
| Corispermum ochotense var. ochotense | Russian Bugseed | S1 | SNR | Newly added to the tracking list |
| Corispermum pallasii | Pallas’ Bugseed | S2 | SNR | Newly added to the tracking list |
| Corispermum villosum | Hairy Bugseed | S2 | SNR | Newly added to the tracking list |
| Festuca campestris | Prairie Fescue | S1 | n/a | New taxon for the province, added to the tracking list |
| Packera plattensis | Prairie Ragwort | S1 | S3S4 | All but one herbarium specimen were revised to P. paupercula, so this species is more rare than previously thought. Remains on the tracking list. |
| Chenopodium atrovirens | Dark-green Goosefoot | SNR | Newly added to the tracking list; rank not yet assessed | |
| Lilium philadelphicum var. andinum | Western Red Lily | S3S4 | Removed from the tracking list; rank not yet reassessed | |
| Lupinus pusillus ssp. pusillus | Small Lupine | S3 | Removed from the tracking list; rank not yet reassessed | |
| Osmorhiza depauperata | Blunt-fruited Sweet-cicely | S3S4 | Removed from the tracking list; rank not yet reassessed | |
| Polygala senega | Seneca Snakeroot | S3S4 | Removed from the tracking list; rank not yet reassessed | |
| Sisyrinchium mucronatum | Mucronate Blue-eyed-grass | S3S4 | Newly added to the tracking list; rank not yet reassessed | |
| Symphyotrichum ascendens | Western Aster | S3S4 | Newly added to the tracking list; rank not yet reassessed |