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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amaranthaceae | Achyranthes aspera var. aspera | Blunt-leaved Achyranthes | Disturbed upland areas, waste areas around wool-combing mills. | Native of Asia. |  |
| Amaranthaceae | Achyranthes aspera var. pubescens | Devil's-horsewhip | Disturbed uplands, hammocks. | Reported for MD and s. FL (FNA, Kartesz 1999), the MD report dropped in Kartesz (2010). |  |
| Amaranthaceae | Achyranthes japonica var. hachijoensis | Japanese Chaff-flower | Bottomland forests, disturbed areas. | Native of e. Asia. Escaped in KY and WV (Mingo and Wayne counties) (Medley et al. 1985), n. AL (Limestone County) (Barger et al. 2019), nc. GA, s. OH, s. IN, w., c. and e. TN, and s. IL, and now acting as a serious invasive species (Evans & Taylor 2011). Also recently discovered in Fairfax County, VA along the Potomac River (N. DeBarros, pers. comm., 2022). |  |