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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fumariaceae | Dicentra canadensis | Squirrel Corn | Rich, moist forests, especially rich cove forests in the mountains. | S. ME west to s. MN, south to w. NC, n. GA, TN, and MO. |  |
| Fumariaceae | Dicentra cucullaria | Dutchman's Britches | Rich, moist forests, especially rich cove forests in the mountains. | NS west to n. MN, south to GA, ne. MS (Tishomingo County), AR, and KS; disjunct in WA, OR, and ID. |  |
| Fumariaceae | Dicentra eximia | Wild Bleeding Heart | Cliffs, talus slopes, rocky slopes, rock outcrops, shale slopes. | An Appalachian endemic: NY and NJ south to NC, SC (Gaddy et al. 1984), and TN. |  |
| Fumariaceae | Dicentra formosa ssp. formosa | Western Bleeding-heart | Suburban gardens. | Native of w. North America. Native from s. BC south to c. CA, is frequently cultivated and resembles our native D. eximia. |