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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rosaceae | Fragaria ×ananassa var. ananassa | Garden Strawberry, Cultivated Strawberry | Gardens, persistent on garden edges, commonly cultivated. | An octoploid garden hybrid of the two octoploid species, F. chiloensis and F. virginiana. | |
| Rosaceae | Fragaria americana | American Woodland Strawberry | Dry rocky woodlands, boulderfields, fields, roadsides, clearings. | NL (Newfoundland) and BC south to e. VA, w. NC, e. TN, MO, NE, CO, NM, and AZ. |  |
| Rosaceae | Fragaria vesca | European Woodland Strawberry | Fields, disturbed areas, yards. | Native of Europe. Naturalized from NL (Newfoundland), QC and MI south to PA, WV (?), KY, and IL. |  |
| Rosaceae | Fragaria virginiana | Wild Strawberry | Grasslands, roadsides, pastures, woodlands, grassy balds. | NL (Newfoundland) west to MB, south to peninsular FL and TX. |  |