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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agavaceae | Agave americana ssp. americana | Century-plant, Maguey | Disturbed areas, dunes, spread weakly from cultivation. | Native of Mexico. |  |
| Agavaceae | Agave americana ssp. protamericana | Wild Century-plant |  | ||
| Agavaceae | Agave angustifolia | Century Plant | Disturbed areas. | Native of Mexico and Central America. |  |
| Agavaceae | Agave decipiens | Florida Agave, False-sisal | Shell middens and coastal hammocks, rockland hammocks, coastal rock barrens, often persisting as small understory plants vegetatively until tree-fall gaps stimulate flowering. | Endemic to s. peninsular FL. |  |
| Agavaceae | Agave desmettiana | Dwarf Century-plant | |||
| Agavaceae | Agave lophantha | Thorn-crested Agave | Sandy and sandy loam flats. | S. TX south to c. Mexico (COA, HID, NLE, QRO, SLP, TAM, VER). | |
| Agavaceae | Agave sisalana | Sisal, Sisal-hemp | Coastal hammocks and dunes, other disturbed areas. | Native of Mexico. | |
| Agavaceae | Agave weberi | Small’s Agave, Wild Century-plant | Shell middens and coastal thickets; apparently introduced from Mexico. | Peninsular FL; Mexico. |  |