In the United States this species occurs in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee and Wisconsin. NatureServe (2009) have classified it as Critically Imperilled in North Carolina, New York, Iowa, Arkansas, Alabama and Virginia and it is Presumed Extirpated in Kansas. In Canada, this species occurs in Ontario.

This species is widespread in the eastern United States and is distributed in the lower and middle sections of the St. Lawrence River Systems; Lake Huron, St. Clair and Erie; and the upper Mississippi River system, south to Ohio, Cumberland, and Tennessee River systems (Clarke 1981).