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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primulaceae | Ardisia crenata | Coral Ardisia, Coralberry, Spiceberry, Hen’s Eyes, Marlberry, Scratchthroat | Moist suburban forests, floodplains, mesic flatwoods, moist forests. | Native of Asia. Naturalized from horticultural use in s. GA (Carter, Baker, & Morris 2009), s. AL (Barger et al. 2012), e. SC (Beaufort County) (Bradley et al. [in prep.]), FL Panhandle, and FL peninsula. |  |
| Primulaceae | Ardisia elliptica | Shoebutton Ardisia | Hammocks, suburban woodlands. | Native of Asia. |  |
| Primulaceae | Ardisia escallonioides | Marlberry | Hammocks. | N. peninsular FL (Flagler, Volusia and Pasco counties) south to s. FL; West Indies; Mexico and Central America. |  |
| Primulaceae | Ardisia japonica | Japanese Ardisia | Disturbed areas. | Native of Asia. |  |
| Primulaceae | Ardisia solanacea | China-shrub | Disturbed hammocks. | Native of Asia. |  |