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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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1 Leaves alternate; sepals 3-7 mm long; seeds 1.2-2.6 mm long
1 Leaves opposite; sepals 1-4 mm long; seeds 0.5-1.5 mm long.
  2 Plants perennial, bulbiferous; stems erect; stamens 5; leaf blades 2-60 mm long; sepals 2-4 mm long; seeds 1.0-1.5 mm long
  2 Plants annual or biennial, not bulbiferous; stems prostrate or decumbent; stamens 3; leaf blades 2-20 mm long; sepals 1-2 mm long; seeds 0.5-1.2 mm long.