Support the Flora of the Southeastern US
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montiaceae | Claytonia arkansana | Arkansas Spring-beauty, Ozark Spring-beauty | Tops and faces of sandstone cliffs (Atoka and Hale formations), rooting in crevices of ledges and horizontal seams, in areas with at least seasonal seepage, in full sun to moderately dense shade. | Endemic to the Ozarks and Arkansas Valley portions of Arkansas (Cleburne, Faulkner, and Van Buren counties), at 135–275 m elevation. |  |
| Montiaceae | Claytonia caroliniana | Carolina Spring-beauty | Moist forests, especially northern hardwood forests and cove forests at moderate to high elevations. | NS west to MN, south to w. NC, e. TN, and n. GA; disjunct (?) in AR (see discussion). |  |
| Montiaceae | Claytonia perfoliata ssp. perfoliata | Miners’-lettuce | Disturbed areas, lawns, gardens, rarely rock outcrops. | Native of w. North America. Reported for AR (Schneider 2019). |  |
| Montiaceae | Claytonia rubra ssp. rubra | Miners’-lettuce | Disturbed areas. | Native of w. North America. Naturalizing in Arlington County, VA (Steury 2010, 2011). |  |
| Montiaceae | Claytonia virginica var. hammondiae | Yellow Spring beauty | Spring-fed, acidic wetlands over clay soils. | Endemic (as far as is known) to Sussex County, NJ (in the Ridge and Valley province). |  |
| Montiaceae | Claytonia virginica var. virginica | Spring-beauty | Moist forests, lawns. | NS west to MN, south to GA and TX. |  |