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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poaceae | Coleataenia abscissa | Cutthroat Grass | Most frequent in pineland seepage slopes, moist flatwoods, and depressions, where often the dominant herbaceous plant; also occasionally in dry sandy sites. Most often associated with wet Pinus densa savannas and seepage slopes, where it is often the dominant ground-layer species. | Endemic to central FL peninsula, also known from a few sites on the Atlantic Coastal Ridge. |  |
| Poaceae | Coleataenia anceps ssp. anceps | Beaked Panic Grass | Moist sandy woods, swamps, sloughs, roadsides, fields, waste places, often weedy. | NY (Long Island), NJ west to IL, south to FL and TX. |  |
| Poaceae | Coleataenia anceps ssp. rhizomata | Small Beaked Panic Grass | Moist to dry sandy or loamy pinelands, maritime forests, ditches. | E. MD south to s. FL, west to e. TX, on the Coastal Plain, and rarely inland. |  |
| Poaceae | Coleataenia longifolia ssp. combsii | Combs's Panic Grass | Pond shores, depression meadows, cypress savannas, marshes, low woods. | Scattered on the outer Coastal Plain from NS (LeBlond in Weakley et al. 2018a), se. MA, NJ, se. VA, se. NC, e. SC, e. GA, and FL, west to se. LA. |  |
| Poaceae | Coleataenia longifolia ssp. longifolia | Long-leaved Panic Grass | Wet sandy or peaty soils of bogs, pine savannas, pond shores, depression meadows. | NS, NH, MA, PA, and IN south to FL, west to TX. |  |
| Poaceae | Coleataenia pulchra | Tall Flat Panic Grass | Marshes, low woods, ditches, swamps, shores, meadows, beaver marshes. | CT and NY west to IN, south to GA, LA, and ne. TX. |  |
| Poaceae | Coleataenia rigidula ssp. condensa | Dense Panic Grass | Marshes, meadows, low woods, ditches, stream and pond shores, freshwater tidal shores. | Coastal Plain south from se. MA to FL, west to se. TX and AR; disjunct in the West Indies. |  |
| Poaceae | Coleataenia rigidula ssp. rigidula | Redtop Panic Grass | Wet sandy or peaty soils low woods, meadows, marshes, shores, swamps, ditches, often weedy. | ME and MI south to FL and TX; also in CA and BC; disjunct in Central America. |  |
| Poaceae | Coleataenia tenera | Southeastern Panic Grass | Limesink ponds, depression meadows, cypress savannas, wet pinelands and prairies, bogs. | Coastal Plain from se. NC to FL, west to e. TX; West Indies; Mexico and Central America. |  |