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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rhamnaceae | Ceanothus americanus var. americanus | Common New Jersey Tea, Northeastern Ceanothus | Woodland borders, dry woodlands, gladelike openings, dry ridge forests and woodlands (pine or oak) in the Mountains. | ME west to WI, south to FL Panhandle and AL. |  |
| Rhamnaceae | Ceanothus americanus var. intermedius | Southeastern New Jersey Tea, Southeastern Ceanothus | Longleaf pine sandhills, dry sandy woodlands and forests, rocky openings around granitic or quartzitic rocks in the Piedmont. | NJ (or possibly MA) south to c. peninsular FL, west to LA, mostly on the Coastal Plain, but disjunct inland to sandy soils around outcrops of siliceous rocks. |  |
| Rhamnaceae | Ceanothus americanus var. pitcheri | Hairy New Jersey Tea, Midwestern Ceanothus | Prairies, woodland margins. | IN west to IA and NE, south to nw. GA and e. and c. TX. |  |