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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
Write-in vote: vote
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:

Click the number at the start of a key lead to highlight both that lead and its corresponding lead. Click again to show only the two highlighted leads. Click a third time to return to the full key with the selected leads still highlighted.

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Show caption*© Joseph Aubert, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Joseph Aubert
1 Leaf blades serrate; inflorescences 3-5-flowered; stoloniferous shrub to 0.4 m tall
1 Leaf blades crenate or entire; inflorescences 5-18+-flowered; nonstoloniferous shrubs or trees, 1-15 m tall.
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Show caption*© Lewis, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), uploaded by Lewis
  2 Leaf margins crenate; fruit red when ripe
  2 Leaf margins entire; fruits black or dark purple when ripe.
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Show caption*© Keith Bradley
    3 Branchlets glabrous; inflorescences umbels or subumbels, borne on lateral branches or axillary
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Show caption*© Mary Keim, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
    3 Branchlets with red papillae and sometimes also with hairs; inflorescences panicles of racemes, borne terminally