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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moraceae | Ficus altissima | Council Tree |  | ||
| Moraceae | Ficus americana | Jamaican Cherry Fig |  | ||
| Moraceae | Ficus aurea | Strangler Fig; Golden Fig | Hammocks. |  | |
| Moraceae | Ficus benghalensis | Indian Banyan |  | ||
| Moraceae | Ficus benjamina | Weeping Fig | Suburban woodlands, disturbed areas, and in a range of natural and semi-natural habitats. | Native of tropical Asia. |  |
| Moraceae | Ficus carica | Edible Fig, Garden Fig | Grown for its fruits, persistent from plantings, persisting and naturalizing particularly on barrier islands, where it sometimes forms thickets on dunes, or otherwise in the outer Coastal Plain, where proximity to the ocean ameliorates cold winter temperatures. | Native of w. Asia. |  |
| Moraceae | Ficus citrifolia | Wild Banyan Tree | Tropical hammocks, other natural and semi-natural habitats. | S. peninsular FL; West Indies; Mexico, Central America, and South America. |  |
| Moraceae | Ficus deltoidea | Mistletoe Fig | Disturbed area (on shell midden). | Native of Asia. |  |
| Moraceae | Ficus elastica | India Rubber Plant | Suburban woodlands. | Native of tropical Asia. |  |
| Moraceae | Ficus microcarpa | Laurel Fig, Indian-laurel | Suburban woodlands, also in a wide range of natural and semi-natural habitats. | Native of the Paleotropics. |  |
| Moraceae | Ficus pumila | Climbing Fig | Walls, disturbed urban areas. | Native of s. Asia. Locally common in Charleston, Savannah, Pensacola, Mobile, New Orleans, and other old seaports, where grown on walls as an ornamental, more recently planted more extensively in the South, especially but not strictly in the Coastal Plain, commonly persisting and also spreading vegetatively into disturbed urban areas (cf. Diamond 2013). |  |
| Moraceae | Ficus religiosa | Bo-tree | Cultivated and naturalizing (limestone rock walls, brick walls, palm 'boots'). | Native of s. Asia. |  |