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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malvaceae | Kosteletzkya depressa | White Fen-rose | Tidal marshes, coastal berms. | S. FL; West Indies; s. TX south through Mexico and Central America to South America. |  |
| Malvaceae | Kosteletzkya pentacarpos | Seashore-mallow, Saltmarsh-mallow, Fen-rose | Brackish to freshwater tidal marshes. | NY (Long Island) south to s. FL, west to TX; West Indies (Cuba); also early introduced in Europe, Linnaeus's name based on its occurrence in Venice). |  |
| Malvaceae | Kosteletzkya smilacifolia | Florida Seashore-mallow | Freshwater marshes. | Endemic in peninsular FL. |  |