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:
https://fsus.ncbg.unc.edu/main.php?pg=show-taxon-detail.php&lsid=urn:lsid:ncbg.unc.edu:taxon:{D70B3989-374E-4706-993A-14BCB610BFCB}
*Musaceae A.L. de Jussieu. Banana Family.
A family of 2 genera and 40-50 species, robust herbs, of the Paleotropics.
Ref: Andersson In Kubitzki (1998b); Whittemore (2000a) In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2000). Show full citations.
Hover over a shape, letter, icon, or arrow on the map for definition or see the legend. Data for arrows not developed for genera and families which may have species only occurring outside the flora area.
© Dutta Roy Sagnik, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Dutta Roy Sagnik | Musa ×paradisiaca source | Original Image ⭷
© Patrick Jackson, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Patrick Jackson | Musa ×paradisiaca source | Original Image ⭷
© aehn, some rights reserved (CC BY) | Musa acuminata source | Original Image ⭷
no rights reserved, uploaded by Sergio Garrido Villa | Musa acuminata source | Original Image ⭷Feedback
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