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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poaceae | Calamagrostis arenaria | European Beachgrass | Dunes, disturbed areas. | Native of Europe. Introduced in MD and PA (Kartesz 1999). |  |
| Poaceae | Calamagrostis breviligulata ssp. breviligulata | American Beachgrass | Dunes along the Atlantic Ocean and major estuaries (such as the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays), rarely on dry sandy shores along Coastal Plain Rivers (in VA). | NL (Newfoundland) south to about Cape Hatteras, Dare County, NC, and on shores around the Great Lakes; planted farther south. As a native grass, Calamagrostis breviligulata ranged south only to NC, where it was rare; it is now commonly planted ("sprigged") in the Carolinas as a sand-binder and is now common south into SC. |  |
| Poaceae | Calamagrostis cainii | Cain's Reedgrass | High elevation rocky summits. | Endemic to a few mountain-tops in the Southern Appalachians, C. cainii, once thought to be endemic to Mount LeConte, TN, was discovered at two sites in NC in 1989 and 1990 – Mount Craig, Yancey County, and Craggy Pinnacle, Buncombe County (Wiser 1991). |  |
| Poaceae | Calamagrostis canadensis var. canadensis | Bluejoint, Canada Reedgrass | Wet meadows along streams, high elevation openings, such as grassy balds and cliff bases. | Widespread and common across n. North America, reaching its southern limit in the east in w. NC, e. TN (Chester et al. 1993), and ne. GA (Rabun Bald, Rabun County). |  |
| Poaceae | Calamagrostis canadensis var. macouniana | Bottomlands. | NL (Newfoundland) and AB south to NJ, PA, VA?, OH, w. KY, IL, MO, NE, WY, OR. Reported for VA (FNA), the documentation unknown. Reported south to NJ and KY only (Kartesz 1999). {investigate} |  | |
| Poaceae | Calamagrostis epigejos | Bushgrass, Feathertop | Disturbed areas. | Native of Eurasia. |  |
| Poaceae | Calamagrostis inexpansa | Northern Reedgrass | Wet meadows, fens. | NL (Newfoundland) and NL (Labrador) west to AK, south to NY, OH, n. WV (Preston and Randolph counties), IA, AZ, and CA; apparently disjunct in w. NC; ne. Asia. |  |
| Poaceae | Calamagrostis insperata | Rock outcrops; rocky woodlands. | OH and MO south to TN and AR. |  | |
| Poaceae | Calamagrostis macrolepis | Far Eastern Reedgrass | Native of n. Eurasia. | ||
| Poaceae | Calamagrostis pickeringii | Pickering’s Reedgrass | Bogs. | NL west to ON, south to NY and s. NJ. |  |
| Poaceae | Calamagrostis porteri | Porter's Reedgrass | Dry to dry-mesic forests and woodlands, especially in fire-maintained situations, forest edges, serpentine barrens, cliff bases. | NY to AL, in the Appalachians; it was first reported from NC by Ware (1973). |  |