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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malvaceae | Sida abutilifolia | Creeping Sida, Spreading Fanpetals | Rockland hammocks (FL), coastal rock barrens (FL), rocky or sandy grasslands or woodlands, dry disturbed areas. | S. FL; West Indies; sw. United States (OK, TX, NM, AZ) south through Mexico and Central America to South America. Sometimes (unwarrantedly) considered all or partly introduced in the United States. | |
| Malvaceae | Sida antillensis | West Indian Sida | Disturbed coastal uplands, sandy areas. | S. FL (where possibly only introduced); West Indies; Central America. | |
| Malvaceae | Sida ciliaris | Bracted Sida, Fringed Sida, Salmon Sida | Dry open areas, disturbed areas. | E., se., and s. TX south to Mexico; West Indies; South America. | |
| Malvaceae | Sida cordata | Waif on ore piles. | Native of tropical and subtropical Asia. |  | |
| Malvaceae | Sida cordifolia | Malva Blanca, Greatleaf Sida, Llima | Disturbed sandhills, disturbed hammocks, roadsides, disturbed areas. | Native of Old World tropics (perhaps India). | |
| Malvaceae | Sida elliottii var. elliottii | Coastal Plain Sida | Stream banks, sandy openings, pineland pond margins, limestone glades and barrens, mesic hammocks. | Var. elliottii ranges from se. VA south to n. FL, west to LA and north in the interior to c. TN and se. MO. |  |
| Malvaceae | Sida elliottii var. parviflora | Chapman’s Sida | Pine rocklands, mesic pine flatwoods, disturbed uplands. | Peninsular FL; se. TX south into montane e. Mexico to Guatemala. | |
| Malvaceae | Sida glabra | Smooth Sida | Agricultural areas. | Native of Neotropics. |  |
| Malvaceae | Sida lindheimeri | Showy Sida | Beaches, open sandy areas, open woodlands, scrub, disturbed areas. | Native of TX south into Mexico (CHH, COA, NLE, TAM, VER). | |
| Malvaceae | Sida linifolia | Flaxleaf Sida | On ballast, last collected in 1886 and seemingly only a waif. | Native of West Indies. |  |
| Malvaceae | Sida littoralis | Florida Sida | Maritime hammocks, disturbed open areas. | Apparently endemic to c. peninsular FL (Lee County, Captiva and La Costa islands) | |
| Malvaceae | Sida planicaulis | Flatstem Sida, Brazilian Wireweed | Disturbed oak hammocks. | Native of Brazil. | |
| Malvaceae | Sida rhombifolia var. rhombifolia | Arrowleaf Sida, Axocatzin | Roadsides, fields, gardens, disturbed areas. | Southeastern North America west to TX, south through Mexico, Central America, and n. South America; West Indies; the original distribution of this species is uncertain, but Fryxell & Hill in FNA (2015) suggest it is native to the Old World tropics. |  |
| Malvaceae | Sida rubromarginata | Redleaf Sida | Disturbed areas. | Endemic to peninsular FL (reported from Leon, Hillsborough and Sarasota counties). | |
| Malvaceae | Sida santaremensis | Brazilian Sida, Moth Fanpetals | Sandy disturbed areas. | Native of South America. | |
| Malvaceae | Sida spinosa | Prickly Sida, Prickly-mallow, False-mallow | Disturbed areas, wet fields. | Native of the Neotropics and Paleotropics. |  |
| Malvaceae | Sida tragiifolia | On limestone or caliche. | S. TX, w. TX, and s. AZ south to n. Mexico (CHH, COA, NLE, SON, TAM). | ||
| Malvaceae | Sida ulmifolia | Broomweed, Wireweed | Disturbed areas. | Native of the Tropics, the original northern limit uncertain. Usually considered native in peninsular FL, but the area of nativity uncertain. |  |
| Malvaceae | Sida urens | Bristly Sida, Tropical Fanpetals | Disturbed areas. | Native of tropical America. Discovered as an introduction in Broward County in 2008 (Fryxell & Hill 2015m). |  |