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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plantaginaceae | Mecardonia acuminata var. acuminata | Mecardonia, Common Axil-flower | Marshes, ditches, wet pine savannas, bottomland forests, wet disturbed areas. | DE and MD south to n. peninsular FL, west to e. TX, north in the interior to KY, TN, and MO. |  |
| Plantaginaceae | Mecardonia acuminata var. microphylla | Pond Axil-flower | Margins of Coastal Plain ponds, wet pine savannas. | Sc. GA south to Panhandle FL and west to e. LA; also reported for SC and NC (Ahedor 2019b). |  |
| Plantaginaceae | Mecardonia acuminata var. peninsularis | Florida Axil-flower | Bogs, wet pine savannas, marshes, pond margins. | N. FL peninsula (Levy, Marion, and Volusia counties) south to s. FL. |  |
| Plantaginaceae | Mecardonia procumbens | Baby Jump-up | Ponds, streams, ditches, moist shores. | FL, AL, MS, AR, TX, NM, and AZ south. Reported for MS (Philley 2020). Discovered in GA (Camden County; R. Carter & R. Mears, pers.comm., 2023). |  |