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2024 has been a banner year for making the best flora we can imagine. We've created:
- Keys with embedded images of diagnostic features
- Clickable glossary terms with illustrated definitions
- FloraQuest: Carolinas & Georgia mobile app
- Heliophily and Wetland Statuses
- Direct links to Flora of North America
- 17,730 new high quality diagnostic photos and counting
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
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:
| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyperaceae | Carex aquatilis var. substricta | Aquatic Sedge | Mountaintop ponds (with Dulichium arundinaceum, Vaccinium macrocarpon, Juncus canadensis), mafic fens at high elevation, northwards in sedge meadows and shores. | NL (Newfoundland) west to ND, south to NJ, s. PA, OH, IN, IA, and NE; disjunct in w. VA (Augusta County) and nw. NC (Bluff Mountain, Ashe County, NC). First reported for VA by Wieboldt et al. (1998). |  |
| Cyperaceae | Carex crinita var. brevicrinis | Short-fringed Sedge | Swamps, wet forests, and a wide range of other wetlands. | MA south to FL, west to TX, north in the interior to KY and MO. |  |
| Cyperaceae | Carex crinita var. crinita | Long-fringed Sedge | Swamps, wet forests, bogs, and a wide range of other wetlands. | NL (Newfoundland) west to MN and AB, south to GA, TN, and s. MO. |  |
| Cyperaceae | Carex emoryi | Emory’s Sedge | Calcareous fens, spring marshes, wet meadows, seepages, ditches, rocky river scours, other wetlands. | NY and ND south to w. VA, s. IL, AR, TX, COA, and NLE. |  |
| Cyperaceae | Carex fumosimontana | Smoky Mountain Sedge | Seepages at high elevations. | Endemic to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Cocke and Sevier counties, TN, Swain County, NC), specifically Clingmans Dome, Mount LeConte, and Mount Guyot. |  |
| Cyperaceae | Carex gynandra | Nodding Sedge | Bogs, swamp forests, seepages, beaver wetlands. | NL (Newfoundland) west to MN, south to WI, n. VA, w. NC, n. GA, e. TN, OH, and WI. This is the most montane and northern element of the C. crinita complex, and the usual one encountered in the Mountains of our area. |  |
| Cyperaceae | Carex haydenii | Hayden’s Sedge | Wet meadows, wet prairies, minerotrophic fens. | NL (Newfoundland) and QC west to SD, south to s. PA, MD (C. Frye, pers. comm., 2000), IL, and IA. |  |
| Cyperaceae | Carex mitchelliana | Mitchell's Sedge | Swampy woodlands and forests, seeps. | Se. MA west to PA and KY, south to Panhandle FL, n. AL, and sc. TN. This species has a scattered distribution throughout its range, and is apparently rare. |  |
| Cyperaceae | Carex nebrascensis | Nebraska Sedge | Wet meadows, swamps, moist areas. | Native of the western Great Plains and Rocky Mountains. |  |
| Cyperaceae | Carex stricta | Tussock Sedge, Upright Sedge | Bogs, sedge meadows, seeps, swamps, depression ponds, old beaver ponds. | QC and NS west to MB, south to GA, AL, MS, and TX. |  |
| Cyperaceae | Carex torta | Streambed Sedge, Twisted Sedge | Rocky streambeds, often dominant in patches in the beds of mountain streams, along their banks, and on rocky or cobbly islands. | NS west to ON, south to sc. NC, SC (Gaddy 1981), nc. GA (Jones & Coile 1988), AL, nw. MS, s. AR, and e. OK. |  |