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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orchidaceae | Cleistesiopsis bifaria | Appalachian Dragonhead Pogonia | Moist to fairly dry meadows, dry ridgetops under pines (where seasonally moist), fire-maintained oak-pine woodlands. | WV south through w. VA, e. KY, w. NC, and e. and c. TN to w. SC, n. GA and n. AL. |  |
| Orchidaceae | Cleistesiopsis divaricata | Large Dragonhead Pogonia | Pine savannas, Coastal Plain seepage bogs. | S. NJ to sw. GA and ne. FL, in the Coastal Plain; reports from more inland (non Coastal Plain) areas are based on a taxonomic concept of C. divaricata including C. bifaria, and reports from the East Gulf Coastal Plain (west of ne. FL) are based on C. oricamporum. |  |
| Orchidaceae | Cleistesiopsis oricamporum | Small Dragonhead Pogonia | Pine savannas, longleaf pine sandhill seepage bogs. | Coastal Plain from se. VA to c. peninsular FL and west to e. LA (and e. TX?); possibly disjunct inland in the Eastern Highland Rim (Coffee County, TN). |  |