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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Araceae | Lemna aequinoctialis | Lesser Duckweed | Still to slowly moving waters of ponds, lakes, beaver ponds, and swamps. | Widespread worldwide, except in n. North America and n. Eurasia. |  |
| Araceae | Lemna minor | Common Duckweed | Still to slowly moving waters of ponds, lakes, beaver ponds, and swamps. | Widespread in the Northern Hemisphere; scattered in the Southern Hemisphere, where perhaps in part introduced. |  |
| Araceae | Lemna minuta | Least Duckweed | Quiet waters, seepages. | Widespread in North America, Central America, and South America; more local in Europe and Japan. |  |
| Araceae | Lemna obscura | Little Duckweed | Still to slowly moving waters of ponds, lakes, beaver ponds, and swamps. | NY west to MN and NE, south to s. FL, TX, Mexico, and the Bahamas. |  |
| Araceae | Lemna perpusilla | Tiny Duckweed | Still to slowly moving waters of ponds, lakes, beaver ponds, and swamps. | QC west to MN, south to NC, TN, and TX. |  |
| Araceae | Lemna trisulca | Star Duckweed, Ivy-leaved Duckweed | Still to slowly moving waters of ponds, lakes, beaver ponds, and swamps, calcareous springs. | Widespread in the Northern Hemisphere; scattered in the Southern Hemisphere. |  |
| Araceae | Lemna turionifera | Turion Duckweed, Red Duckweed | Mesotrophic to eutrophic, quiet waters. | Circumboreal, in North America from NL (Newfoundland) west to AK, south to c. PA (Rhoads & Klein 1993; Rhoads & Block 2007), WV, KY, n. AL (FNA), TX, NM, AZ, and CA. |  |
| Araceae | Lemna valdiviana | Pale Duckweed | Still to slowly moving waters of ponds, lakes, beaver ponds, and swamps. | Widespread in North America, Central America, and South America. |  |