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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia bracteata | Prairie Spiderwort, Sticky Spiderwort | Mesic upland prairies. | S. MI WI, MN, ND, and MT south to s. IN, s. IL, s. MO, w. AR, s. OK, w. KS, and e. WY. |  |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia buckleyi | Buckley's Spiderwort | Clay soils. | S. TX south to Mexico (TAM). | |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia crassula | Disturbed oak hammocks. | Native of South America. | ||
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia edwardsiana | Plateau Spiderwort | Moist forests in ravines and floodplains. | Ne. TX south to Edwards Plateau, TX. |  |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia ernestiana | Ernest's Spiderwort | Dry woodlands. | Primarily Ozarkian (AR, MO, OK, disjunct east to nw. GA and ne. AL, and west to n. TX (Faden in FNA 2000). |  |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia fluminensis | Wandering Jew, Small-leaf Spiderwort, Small-leaf Wandering Jew | Disturbed areas, lawns, vacant lots, moist suburban woods, along streams. | Native of tropical America. Reported for Beaufort Co. SC (Daniel C. Payne 2009, pers. comm.). |  |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia gigantea | Giant Spiderwort | Limestone soils. | N. LA and n. TX south to c. TX. |  |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia hirsuticaulis | Hairy Spiderwort | Dry rocky woodlands, and rock outcrops (especially granitic flatrocks and domes). | W. NC and wc. TN south to sc. SC, s. GA, s. AL, and sc. MS; west of the Mississippi River in AR, e. OK, and nw. LA. |  |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia hirsutiflora | Longleaf pine sandhills, dry hammocks. | S. and e. GA and FL Panhandle, west to TX. |  | |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia humilis | Texas Spiderwort | Sandy or rocky ground. | Sc. OK south to s. TX. | |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia longipes | Dwarf Spiderwort | Wooded slopes on rocky hillsides. | MO and AR. |  |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia mundula | Wandering Jew, Small-leaf Spiderwort, Small-leaf Wandering Jew | Disturbed areas; probably at least casually escaping in the Southeast. | Native of South America. |  |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia occidentalis var. occidentalis | Prairie Spiderwort | Prairies, forests. | WI west to MT, south to e. LA, TX, NM, AZ, and Mexico (SON). |  |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia ohiensis | Smooth Spiderwort, Ohio Spiderwort | Woodlands and forests, alluvial bottoms, disturbed areas, roadsides. | MA west to MN, south to c. peninsular FL and TX, some of that range likely the result of naturalization from cultivation. |  |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia ozarkana | Ozark Spiderwort | Bottomlands, rich slopes. | S. MO, nw. AR, and e. OK. |  |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia pallida | Purplequeen, Purpleheart, "Wandering Jew" | Disturbed areas. | Native of Mexico. The AL report is detailed in Barger et al. (2012). |  |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia paludosa | Swamp Spiderwort, Confederate Spiderwort | Swamps and bottomlands. | Coastal Plain of MS and LA west to TX and c. and sw. AR. |  |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia pedicellata | Rocky soil. | C. TX; disjunct in nc. TX. |  | |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia reverchonii | Reverchon's Spiderwort, Woolly Spiderwort | Longleaf pine sandhills, other dry woodlands, sandy openings. | Sw. AR south to sw. LA and e. and c. TX. |  |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia roseolens | Sandhill Spiderwort | Dry sandy woodlands. | SC south through GA to c. peninsular FL, west to AL. |  |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia spathacea | Moses-in-the-cradle, Oyster-plant, Boat-lily | Disturbed areas, suburban woodlands. | Native of s. Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies. |  |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia subacaulis | Stemless Spiderwort | Sandy soils. | Endemic to TX. |  |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia subaspera | Wide-leaved Spiderwort, Zigzag Spiderwort | Dry to mesic woodlands and forests, hammocks. | Nc. NC, w. VA, WV, OH, IN, IL, and MO, south to NC, SC, sw. GA, Panhandle FL, and AL. |  |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia tharpii | Dwarf Spiderwort | Rocky prairies, other open ground. | MO and KS south through OK to TX. |  |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia virginiana | Virginia Spiderwort | Nutrient-rich forests and woodlands. | ME west to MI and WI, south to n. GA, MO, and e. AR. |  |
| Commelinaceae | Tradescantia zebrina | Zebra Plant, "Wandering Jew", Creeping Charlie | Hammocks, disturbed areas; suburban woodlands. | Native of tropical America. |  |