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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orobanchaceae | Aureolaria calycosa | Ozark Oakleech | Glades and woodlands. | C. MO south to sc. AR. | |
| Orobanchaceae | Aureolaria flava | Smooth Oak-leech | Oak forests and woodlands, hemiparasitic on Quercus subgenus Quercus. | ME west to MN, south to GA, c. peninsular FL, AL, and e. LA. |  |
| Orobanchaceae | Aureolaria grandiflora var. grandiflora | Loamy prairies and longleaf pinelands. | Se. OK south to e. TX. | ||
| Orobanchaceae | Aureolaria grandiflora var. pulchra | Mesic and dry forests and woodlands, oak savannas, bluffs. | Nw. IN, WI. and se. MN south to MO. |  | |
| Orobanchaceae | Aureolaria grandiflora var. serrata | Large-flowered Oak-leech | Mesic to dry forests and woodlands, pine flatwoods. | MO south to sw. MS, se. LA, s. LA, and e. TX. |  |
| Orobanchaceae | Aureolaria levigata | Appalachian Oak-leech | Oak forests and woodlands. | PA west to s. OH, south to SC and GA, primarily a Central and Southern Appalachian endemic, but extending into adjacent provinces, and, rarely, even the Coastal Plain. |  |
| Orobanchaceae | Aureolaria patula | Cumberland Oak-leech | Calcareous ledges, and bluffs, rich alluvial forests. | C. KY south through TN to nw. GA, and approaching w. NC and sw. VA. |  |
| Orobanchaceae | Aureolaria pectinata | Southern Oak-leech | Longleaf Pine / Turkey Oak sandhills, Florida scrub, other dry oak forests and woodlands, barrens; a hemiparasite on Quercus section Lobatae (the red or black oaks). | NC south to s. FL, west to LA, inland north to MO, e. OK, and e. TX. |  |
| Orobanchaceae | Aureolaria pedicularia | Annual Oak-leech | Oak forests and woodlands; a hemiparasite on Quercus section Lobatae (the red or black oaks). | ME west to NY and e. MN, south to nw. SC, ne. GA, e. TN, and n. IL. |  |
| Orobanchaceae | Aureolaria virginica | Downy Oak-leech, Virginia Oak-leech | Oak forests and woodlands, hemiparasitic on Quercus subgenus Quercus. | MA west to MI, south to ne. FL, Panhandle FL, and AL and west on the Coastal Plain through MS, and LA to e. TX. |  |