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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fabaceae | Desmanthus acuminatus | Sharp-pod Bundleflower | Gravelly or sandy open areas. | C. TX south to coastal se. TX. | |
| Fabaceae | Desmanthus brevipes | Dwarf Bundle-flower | Post oak or juniper woodlands, prairies, and along roadsides, most commonly found on sandy or gravelly soils but also on calcareous and clay soils. | Sw. LA west along the coast to s. TX. | |
| Fabaceae | Desmanthus illinoensis | Common Bundleflower, Prairie Mimosa | Prairies, open woodlands, barrens, marsh edges, disturbed areas. | OH, MN, and ND south to Panhandle FL, TX, and NM; with scattered adventive occurrences east and west of the native distribution. |  |
| Fabaceae | Desmanthus leptolobus | Prairie Bundleflower | Prairies and open ground, disturbed areas, lawns. | KS and OK south to sc. and e. TX. | |
| Fabaceae | Desmanthus leptophyllus | Slenderleaf Bundleflower | Pine rocklands, disturbed upland areas. | Native of tropical America. |  |
| Fabaceae | Desmanthus obtusus | Bluntpod Bundleflower | Woodlands, grasslands, disturbed areas. | N. TX south through s. TX and se. NM to Mexico. | |
| Fabaceae | Desmanthus reticulatus | Netleaf Bundleflower | Rich, moist blackland prairies, in Tamaulipan scrub, and along roadsides in agricultural areas. | C. to s. TX. | |
| Fabaceae | Desmanthus velutinus | Velvety Bundleflower | Limestone outcrops. | Nc. TX, NM, and AZ south to s. TX and Mexico (CHH, COA, NLE). |  |
| Fabaceae | Desmanthus virgatus | Wild Tantan | Longleaf pine sandhills, shell middens, hammocks, scrub, mesquital, disturbed areas. | FL peninsula (north to Levy County); West Indies; nw. LA and c. Texas south through Mexico and Central America to South America. The location in nw. LA (Caddo Parish) is adventive (MacRoberts & MacRoberts 2011b). |