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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oleaceae | Ligustrum japonicum | Japanese Privet | Disturbed places. | Native of Japan and Korea. |  |
| Oleaceae | Ligustrum lucidum | Glossy Privet, Broadleaf Privet | Disturbed places. | Native of China, Japan, and Korea. |  |
| Oleaceae | Ligustrum obtusifolium var. obtusifolium | Disturbed places. | Native of Japan. |  | |
| Oleaceae | Ligustrum obtusifolium var. suave | Amur Privet | Disturbed places. | Native of Japan. | |
| Oleaceae | Ligustrum ovalifolium | California Privet | Disturbed places. | Native of Japan. |  |
| Oleaceae | Ligustrum quihoui | Waxy-leaf Privet | Glade margins, suburban woodlands, disturbed places. | Native of China. Though seemingly established only rarely in parts of our area, this species has the potential to become another noxious "shrub weed" across the region. Reported for AL by Diamond & Keener (2012). |  |
| Oleaceae | Ligustrum sinense | Chinese Privet, Privy Hedge | Moist forests, especially alluvial bottomlands, and also in a wide range of other forests, woodlands, glade edges, etc. | Native of China. |  |
| Oleaceae | Ligustrum tschonoskii | Tschonosky Privet | Suburban forests. | Native of Japan, Korea, and Sakhalin. Known in the flora area "only from the woods along the bank of Rock Creek in Rock Creek Park" (Nesom 2009a; Shetler and Orli 2000) |  |
| Oleaceae | Ligustrum vulgare | Common Privet | Disturbed places. | Native of Europe and n. Africa. |  |