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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ruscaceae | Nolina atopocarpa | Florida Beargrass | Pine flatwoods and pine savannas. | Endemic to Panhandle FL (Liberty, Franklin, and Wakulla counties) and peninsular FL. |  |
| Ruscaceae | Nolina brittoniana | Britton’s Beargrass | Longleaf pine sandhills and Florida scrub, scrubby flatwoods, sand pine scrub, xeric yellow and white sands. | N. peninsular FL (Marion County) south to sc. FL (Highlands County) and w. peninsular FL (Manatee County). |  |
| Ruscaceae | Nolina georgiana | Georgia Beargrass, Sandhill Lily | Longleaf pine sandhills, sometimes locally common on slightly less xeric lower sandhill slopes, shallow soils near rock outcrops. | Nc. SC south to sc. GA; this species was attributed to FL (Small 1933), but is not accepted for that state by more recent sources (Clewell 1985; Wunderlin & Hansen 2011; Hess in FNA 2002a). |  |
| Ruscaceae | Nolina lindheimeriana | Lindheimer's Beargrass | Limestone outcrops. | Mainly Edwards Plateau, c. TX, rarely eastwards. |  |
| Ruscaceae | Nolina texana | Texas Beargrass, Sacahuista | Rocky soils. | S. OK and n. NM south to c. and s. TX and c. Mexico (CHH, COA, DGO, NLE, SLP, SON, ZAC). |  |