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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asteraceae | Eurybia avita | Alexander's Rock Aster | In shallow soils on granitic flatrocks and granitic domes where moist from seasonal seepage. | Upper Piedmont endemic: w. SC to wc. GA. Previous reports from the NC Blue Ridge are based on misidentifications of E. surculosa. |  |
| Asteraceae | Eurybia chlorolepis | Blue Ridge White Heart-leaved Aster | Northern hardwood forests, spruce-fir forests. | A Southern Appalachian endemic: sw. VA south through w. NC and e. TN to nw. SC and n. GA (Lamboy 1992); also reported for scattered locations in WV (Harmon, Ford-Werntz, & Grafton 2006), probably erroneously. |  |
| Asteraceae | Eurybia compacta | Slender Aster | Pine savannas, hardpan woodlands, clearings. | NJ to e. GA, mainly on the Coastal Plain, but also in the lower Piedmont. |  |
| Asteraceae | Eurybia divaricata | Common White Heart-leaved Aster | Moist to fairly dry forests and woodlands. | N. NH west to s. ON, sw. QC, and n. OH, south to e. NC, c. SC, n. GA, and c. AL. |  |
| Asteraceae | Eurybia eryngiifolia | Eryngo-leaved Aster | Wet pine savannas and pineland bogs. | East Gulf Coastal Plain endemic: sw. GA and Panhandle FL west to se. AL. |  |
| Asteraceae | Eurybia furcata | Forked Wood-aster, Midwestern White Heart-leaved Aster | Bases and ledges of moist limestone and dolomite bluffs. | MI, WI, and c. IA south to nw. IN, c. IL, and s. MO. |  |
| Asteraceae | Eurybia hemispherica | Prairie Grass-leaved Aster, Southern Pine Aster | Glades, barrens, rocky woodlands. | E. TN west to MO, south to nw. GA, se. GA, and FL Panhandle. |  |
| Asteraceae | Eurybia jonesiae | Piedmont Big-leaved Aster | Moist forests. | Endemic to the Piedmont: e. GA west to e. AL (Lee and Cherokee cos.) (Barger et al. 2023). |  |
| Asteraceae | Eurybia macrophylla | Big-leaved Aster | Moist to dryish forests, in NC mostly at moderate to high elevations, particularly in red oak forests on ridgetops. | NB and QC west to MN, south to PA, MD, VA, NC, nw. SC, ne. GA, e. TN, and IN; disjunct in scattered sites in MO and nw. AR. Known in SC from at least Greenville County (S. Tessel, pers. comm., 2023). |  |
| Asteraceae | Eurybia mirabilis | Piedmont Aster | Nutrient-rich bottomlands and moist slopes in the lower Piedmont. | Endemic to the lower Piedmont of NC and SC. |  |
| Asteraceae | Eurybia paludosa | Savanna Grass-leaved Aster | Wet pine savannas, hillside seepage bogs, longleaf pine sandhill / pocosin ecotones. | An Atlantic Coastal Plain endemic: ne. NC south to se. GA and ne. FL (Nassau County). |  |
| Asteraceae | Eurybia radula | Low Rough Aster | Circumneutral to calcareous wet meadows, possibly stream banks. | NL (Newfoundland) and NL (Labrador) south to DE (historically), MD, WV, and w. VA. |  |
| Asteraceae | Eurybia saxicastelli | Rockcastle Wood-aster | Boulder/cobble bars along the Rockcastle River. | Endemic to the Cumberland Plateau region of KY and n. TN (Scott County, TN) (Chester, Wofford, & Kral 1997) |  |
| Asteraceae | Eurybia schreberi | Schreber's Aster | Mesic forests and seepage slopes. | S. ME and NH south to DE, MD, sc. and w. VA, ne. TN (Chester, Wofford, & Kral 1997), KY, and s. IN; disjunct in WI, e. IA, and n. IL |  |
| Asteraceae | Eurybia spectabilis | Low Showy Aster | Pine barrens, dry road banks. | Coastal Plain (and rarely adjacent provinces) from MA south to SC; disjunct in AL. |  |
| Asteraceae | Eurybia spinulosa | Apalachicola Aster | Longleaf pine savannas. | Endemic to Panhandle FL (Bay, Calhoun, Gulf, and Franklin counties). |  |
| Asteraceae | Eurybia surculosa | Creeping Aster | Rock outcrops, glades, rocky woodlands. | A Southern Appalachian endemic: se. KY and w. VA south to w. NC, e. TN, nw. SC, and n. GA. Alleged occurrences of E. surculosa on the Coastal Plain in se. SC and e. GA are based on misidentifications of E. compacta. |  |