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 | Encyclia rufa | Rufous Butterfly Orchid | Epiphytic or epilithic in maritime hammocks. | Ec. Peninsular FL; Bahamas. Last collected (apparently wild-growing) in 1926 by J.K. Small in a Brevard County hammock near Melbourne (Eau Gallie); nativity is uncertain. | |
| Orchidaceae | Encyclia tampensis | Florida Butterfly Orchid | Epiphytic on a wide variety of trees, and in a wide variety of hammocks, pine flatwoods, sloughs, strands, swamps, and other mesic to wet habitats. Often abundant on the limbs of Quercus virginiana with Pleopeltis michauxiana. | N. FL peninsula (Levy, Putnam, and Flagler counties) south to s. FL; Bahamas; slightly disjunct on n. end of Cumberland Island, GA. |  |