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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liliaceae | Lilium canadense | Canada Lily | Wet meadows, clearings, coves, seepages. | NB west to s. ON, south to NC, SC, GA, AL, and MS |  |
| Liliaceae | Lilium catesbyi | Pine Lily, Catesby's Lily, Leopard Lily | Pine savannas, sandhill seeps. | Se. NC south to s. FL and west to e. LA, on the Coastal Plain. |  |
| Liliaceae | Lilium formosanum | Formosa Lily | Roadsides. | Native of e. Asia. |  |
| Liliaceae | Lilium grayi | Gray's Lily, Roan Lily | Bogs, seepages, grassy balds, moist forests, and wet meadows, at medium to high elevations. | A Southern Appalachian endemic: sw. VA, nw. NC, and ne. TN. |  |
| Liliaceae | Lilium iridollae | Panhandle Lily, Pot-o’-gold Lily | Bogs, acidic organic soils along small blackwater streams and drains. | Panhandle FL west to s. AL and s. MS. |  |
| Liliaceae | Lilium lancifolium | Tiger Lily | Roadsides, old homesites, disturbed areas, trash heaps. | Native of Asia. |  |
| Liliaceae | Lilium longiflorum | Easter Lily, November Lily | Fields and other disturbed areas, persistent and rarely spreading from cultivation. | Native of e. Asia (s. Japan and Ryukyu Islands). |  |
| Liliaceae | Lilium michauxii | Carolina Lily, Michaux’s Lily | Dry upland forests, ridges, slopes, and ridges. | S. VA, e. TN, n. AL, c. MS, and e. LA south to s. SC, Panhandle FL, s. AL, s. MS, s. LA, and e. TX. |  |
| Liliaceae | Lilium michiganense | Michigan Lily | Wet prairies and calcareous hardwood flatwoods. | ON and MN south to e. TN, KY, nw. GA, AL, AR, and e. OK. |  |
| Liliaceae | Lilium philadelphicum var. andinum | Western Wood Lily | Prairies and woodlands. | Var. andinum is more western, ranging from QC, OH, MN, and BC south to OH, IN, IL, MO, w. TX, and NM. |  |
| Liliaceae | Lilium philadelphicum var. philadelphicum | Eastern Wood Lily, Appalachian Wood Lily | Grassy balds, moist to wet meadows (especially in thin soils over rock), open woodlands, limestone barrens. | The species ranges from ME west to BC, south to NC, nw. GA (Jones & Coile 1988), KY, IL, IA, NE, and NM. Var. philadelphicum is eastern and mainly Appalachian, ranging from ME and s. ON south to NC, GA, and KY. |  |
| Liliaceae | Lilium philippinense | Philippine Lily | Roadsides, disturbed areas, escaped from cultivation. | Native of the Philippines. This species is introduced at various locations in the Southeast, including FL and LA (Kartesz 1999), and has been documented from Richmond Co. NC (B.A. Sorrie, pers. comm.). |  |
| Liliaceae | Lilium pyrophilum | Sandhill Bog Lily, Fire Lily | Peaty sandhill seepage bogs in the fall-line Sandhills, streamhead canebrakes. | Fall-line Sandhills region of NC, SC, and e. GA. Material from ne. NC and se. VA is questionable and probably better considered as Lilium superbum (W. Wall, pers. comm., 2016). Newly discovered material in GA appears to be L. pyrophilum. |  |
| Liliaceae | Lilium regale | Royal Lily | Native of e. Asia. | ||
| Liliaceae | Lilium superbum | Turk's-cap Lily, Lily-royal, Superb Lily | Cove forests and moist forests, moist ravines, blackwater stream swamps, Coastal Plain bogs. | MA and s. NY south to ne. NC, Panhandle FL, and c. MS, southward primarily in the Appalachians, but extending across the Piedmont to the Coastal Plain of VA and ne. NC, and with a similarly odd extension south of the southern terminus of the Appalachians into the Coastal Plain of GA, w. FL, AL, and MS. |  |