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Support the Flora of the Southeastern US

2024 has been a banner year for making the best flora we can imagine. We've created:
With financial support from people like you, we are aiming even higher in 2025. Together we can accomplish all this: Vote on our 2025 priorities
  • Add Global Conservation Ranks (GRanks) vote
  • Professional graphic keys (polyclaves) to individual families/genera vote
  • 2 new FloraQuest apps: Florida & Mid-South vote
  • Image overlays highlighting diagnostic characters with arrows vote
  • iNaturalist integration in FloraQuest vote
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We've set a goal of recruiting 200 ongoing supporters to donate $15 or more each month in 2025. Please help us reach this goal and make next year's flora even better:
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Welcome!

The Flora of the Southeastern United States is brought to you by Alan S. Weakley and the Southeastern Flora Team*. The Flora consists of PDFs (of the full flora area, of individual states, and subregions), a set of mobile apps called FloraQuest, and this, the Flora of the Southeastern United States web app.

Quick introduction

  • Click the 3 bars in the upper left to see options for how to make the site display things differently based on your preferences.
  • The search box in the upper part of any screen allows you to find most of what you'd need. For more on searching, see the search page under options and in the footer.
  • We continue to develop the site. Please send any feedback to flora@office.unc.edu

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New mobile app released

On March 4, 2024, we released our mobile app called FloraQuest: Carolinas & Georgia, a new plant identification and discovery app covering over 5,800 vascular plants. With graphic keys, dichotomous keys, habitat descriptions, range maps, 33,333 diagnostic photos, and a set of great places to botanize, this and all the FloraQuest apps are the perfect companion for your botanical explorations. It doesn't need an internet connection to run, so you can take it with you anywhere.

Check out our talk on FloraQuest, the FSUS Web App, and all things Flora of the Southeast.

Vision of the Flora Team

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Download a poster showing our vision of flora tools and databases.

The Flora Area

Map of the Flora Area, the southeastern United States from Long Island in New York west through Pennsylvania and the unglaciated parts of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri; southward to the Gulf of Mexico including parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas

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*Southeastern Flora Team: M. Lee, S. Ward, J.C. Ludwig, B. Sorrie, D. Poindexter, R. LeBlond, J. Kees, C.A. McCormick, S. Oberreiter, E. Ungberg, R. Lance, H. Ballard, R. Carter, M. Pyne, W. Knapp, K. Bradley, S. Zona, W. Barger, L. Musselman, P. Schafran, D. Spaulding, J. Nelson, E. Keith, G. Fleming, D. Estes, L. Majure, H. Medford, E. Bridges, R. Folk, Z. Murrell, R. Peet, J. Townsend, G. Nesom, A. Floden, J. Horn, E. Schilling, J. Triplett, T. Murphy, Z. Irick, K. Schoonover McClelland, M. Alford, M. Brock, and others.