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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piperaceae | Peperomia alata | Winged Peperomia | Epiphytic in tropical hammocks. | S. peninsular FL; West Indies; Mexico, Central America, and South America. |  |
| Piperaceae | Peperomia amplexicaulis | Clasping Peperomia | Tropical hammocks. | Native of West Indies. |  |
| Piperaceae | Peperomia glabella | Cypress Peperomia | Epiphytic or terrestrial in tropical hammocks. | S. peninsular FL; West Indies; Mexico, Central America, and South America. |  |
| Piperaceae | Peperomia humilis var. cumulicola | Low Peperomia | Terrestrial on shell middens. | E. coast of FL, from Duval County south to Martin County. |  |
| Piperaceae | Peperomia humilis var. humilis | Low Peperomia | Primarily epiphytic in strand swamps. | S. FL (Miami-Dade, Monroe, and Collier counties), FL; West Indies; Mexico. Sometimes (and erroneously) considered introduced in FL. |  |
| Piperaceae | Peperomia magnoliifolia var. magnoliifolia | Spoonleaf Peperomia | Epiphytic in tropical hammocks. | S. peninsular FL; West Indies; Mexico, Central America, and South America. |  |
| Piperaceae | Peperomia obtusifolia var. floridana | Florida Peperomia | Epiphytic in tropical hammocks, usually on bark of living wood well above ground level. | Endemic to s. peninsular FL (hammocks of Dade County). | |
| Piperaceae | Peperomia obtusifolia var. obtusifolia | Florida Peperomia | Terrestrial in tropical hammocks, usually on decaying bark of logs and stumps. | S. peninsular FL; West Indies; Mexico, Central America, and South America. |  |
| Piperaceae | Peperomia pellucida | Pepper-elder, Man-to-man, Rat-ear | Disturbed areas, especially around greenhouses. | Native of the Neotropics. P. pellucida has been collected escaped from cultivation in FL, LA, and GA (in the vicinity of Savannah). |  |
| Piperaceae | Peperomia rotundifolia | Yerba Linda | Epiphytic in tropical strand swamps on Fraxinus cubensis and Annona glabra. | S. peninsular FL; West Indies; Mexico, Central America, and South America. |  |