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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 May 1, 2023, we released our mobile app called FloraQuest: Northern Tier, a new plant identification and discovery app covering over 5,800 vascular plants in the northern part of our Flora area. With graphic keys, dichotomous keys, habitat descriptions, range maps, 20,000 diagnostic photos, and over 170 great places to botanize, FloraQuest: Northern Tier is 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.

*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.