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 | Cucumis anguria var. anguria | Bur Gherkin | Disturbed areas. | Native of Africa. | |
| Cucurbitaceae | Cucumis anguria var. longaculeatus | West Indian Gherkin | Disturbed areas. | Native of Africa. Reported for GA (Jones & Coile 1988), FL (Wunderlin & Hansen 2003, as C. anguria), and AL (Diamond & Woods 2009, as C. anguria). |  |
| Cucurbitaceae | Cucumis dipsaceus | Open brushlands. | Native of e. Africa. | ||
| Cucurbitaceae | Cucumis melo var. cantalupo | Canteloupe, Muskmelon | Gardens, fields, trash heaps, commonly cultivated in home gardens and commercially, sometimes volunteering from seed the following year. | Native of Asia. | |
| Cucurbitaceae | Cucumis melo var. inodorus | Honeydew, Winter Melon | Gardens, fields, trash heaps, sometimes cultivated in our area. | Native of Asia. |  |
| Cucurbitaceae | Cucumis melo var. texanus | Gulf Coast Melon | Fields, roadsides, other disturbed areas; apparently evolved into a distinct variety in the southeastern United States from Asian stock introduced in the precolonial period. | Panhandle FL south to peninsular FL, west through s. MS, s. TX, and Mexico. |  |
| Cucurbitaceae | Cucumis metulifer | African Horned Cucumber | Disturbed areas. | Native of Africa. | |
| Cucurbitaceae | Cucumis sativus | Cucumber | Gardens, fields, trash heaps, commonly cultivated in home gardens and commercially, sometimes volunteering from seed the following year. | Native of s. Asia. |  |