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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dioscoreaceae | Dioscorea alata | White Yam, Great Yam | Disturbed areas, in moist soils. | Native of se. Asia. Reported for Lowndes County, GA (Carter, Baker, & Morris 2009) and for Baldwin County, AL (Barger et al. 2019). |  |
| Dioscoreaceae | Dioscorea bulbifera | Air Yam | Disturbed forests, thickets, and banks. | Native of Africa and Asia. Reported for Camden County, GA (Carter, Baker, & Morris 2009). |  |
| Dioscoreaceae | Dioscorea dodecaneura | Ornamental Yam | Native of South America. |  | |
| Dioscoreaceae | Dioscorea floridana | Florida Wild Yam | Mesic to dry forests, swampy forests. | SC south to n. FL, on the Coastal Plain. |  |
| Dioscoreaceae | Dioscorea polystachya | Cinnamon Vine, Chinese Yam | Thickets, disturbed areas, bottomland forests. | Native of China. A serious invasive species in our region. |  |
| Dioscoreaceae | Dioscorea sansibarensis | Zanzibar Yam | Disturbed hammocks. | Native of sub-Saharan Africa. |  |
| Dioscoreaceae | Dioscorea villosa | Wild Yam | Moist forests and woodlands. | NJ, NY, s. ON, WI, MN, and IA south to n. FL and TX. |  |