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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cucurbitaceae | Cayaponia americana | American Melonleaf | Rockland hammocks, in tree-fall gaps. | S. FL; West Indies. | |
| Cucurbitaceae | Cayaponia quinqueloba | Five-lobe-cucumber | Swamp forests, river banks, hammocks. | E. NC (historically), e. SC south to GA and FL Panhandle, west to e. TX, north in the interior to w. TN. The NC occurrence is based on a 19th century collection by M.A. Curtis with locality data as only "North Carolina", but in his hand; we accept this as likely accurate documentation, and map it in the Coastal Plain, near known occurrences nearby across the SC line. |  |