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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fabaceae | Medicago arabica | Spotted Medick, Spotted Bur-clover | Fields, roadsides, disturbed areas. | Native of Mediterranean Europe. |  |
| Fabaceae | Medicago heldreichii | Heldreich's Alfalfa | Waif on ore piles. | Native of sw. Turkey. | |
| Fabaceae | Medicago laciniata | Cutleaf Medic | Waste areas around wool-combing mills and old seaports. | Native of Europe, probably merely a waif. |  |
| Fabaceae | Medicago littoralis | Shore Medick, Water Medick | Beaches and dunes, disturbed sands. | Native of Mediterranean Europe. Reported for s. AL (H. Horne, 2013, pers.comm.; Woods & Orcutt 2017), Panhandle FL (L. Anderson, 2013, pers.comm.), and e. NC (E. Ungberg, pers.comm. 2022). |  |
| Fabaceae | Medicago lupulina | Black Medick, Yellow Trefoil | Fields, roadsides, disturbed areas, vacant lots. | Native of Europe. |  |
| Fabaceae | Medicago minima | Downy Bur-clover, Bur Medick | Fields, roadsides, disturbed areas, on ballast. | Native of Eurasia. |  |
| Fabaceae | Medicago monspeliaca | Hairy Medick | Waif at old seaports. | Native of Mediterranean Europe, n. Africa, and w. Asia. | |
| Fabaceae | Medicago orbicularis | Button Medick | Lawns, disturbed areas, limestone glades. | Native of Mediterranean Europe and n. Africa. Reported for Calloway County, KY (Abbott & Thompson 2019). |  |
| Fabaceae | Medicago polymorpha | Smooth Bur-clover, Toothed Medick | Fields, roadsides, lawns, disturbed areas, vacant lots. | Native of Mediterranean Europe. |  |
| Fabaceae | Medicago rigidula | Tifton Medick, Tifton Burclover | Disturbed areas. | Native of w. Asia. |  |
| Fabaceae | Medicago rugosa | Wrinkled Medick | Native of the Mediterranean Europe. | ||
| Fabaceae | Medicago sativa ssp. ×varia | Hybrid Alfalfa, Hybrid Lucerne, Variegated Alfalfa | Roadsides, fields, disturbed areas. | Native of Europe and sw. Asia. | |
| Fabaceae | Medicago sativa ssp. falcata | Alfalfa, Lucerne, Yellow Alfalfa, Sickle Medick | Roadsides, fields, disturbed areas. | Native of Europe and sw. Asia. | |
| Fabaceae | Medicago sativa ssp. sativa | Purple Alfalfa, Purple Lucerne | Roadsides, fields, disturbed areas. | Native of Europe and sw. Asia. |  |
| Fabaceae | Medicago scutellata | Snail Medick, Shield Medick | Waif on ore piles. | Native of Mediterranean Europe. |