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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*© Gary P. Fleming
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Show caption*© Janet Wright, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Janet Wright
1 Leaves unifoliolate (or palmately 3-foliolate); leaflets orbicular or obovate; plant a sprawling and spreading shrub/vine
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Show caption*© Michelle Smith, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Michelle Smith
1 Leaves palmately (3-) 5-7-(-9) foliolate; leaflets lanceolate; plant an upright small tree.
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Show caption*© Michelle Smith, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Michelle Smith
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Show caption*© Michelle Smith, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Michelle Smith
  2 Leaves (1-) 3 (-5)-foliolate, gray-white tomentose below
  2 Leaves 3-7-foliolate, short-pubescent below.
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Show caption*© Aidan Campos
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Show caption*© Gary P. Fleming
    3 Leaves (3-) 5-9-foliolate; fruits 2-3 mm in diameter; leaflet margins entire; inflorescence axes straight and stiff
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Show caption*© Annika Lindqvist, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Annika Lindqvist
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Show caption*© Sandy Wolkenberg, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Sandy Wolkenberg
    3 Leaves 3-7-foliolate; fruits 3-5 mm in diameter; leaflet margins either entire or coarsely toothed; inflorescence axes lax and often curved