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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asteraceae | Pectis angustifolia var. fastigiata | Sand bars, open areas in woodlands or grasslands, on shallow limestone soils. | C. TX. | ||
| Asteraceae | Pectis angustifolia var. tenella | Open areas. | S. TX and w. TX southwards into Mexico. | ||
| Asteraceae | Pectis glaucescens | Sand Dune Chinchweed, Tea-blinkum | Pinelands and dry, disturbed sites, over limestone or sand. | Peninsular FL; West Indies. | |
| Asteraceae | Pectis humifusa | Yerba de San Juan | Disturbed sandy soils; perhaps native or adventive from the West Indies. | S. FL; West Indies. |  |
| Asteraceae | Pectis linearifolia | Florida Chinchweed | Dry disturbed areas. | N. peninsular FL (Alachua County) south to s. FL; allegedly also in Jamaica (Acevedo-RodrÃguez & Strong 2012). | |
| Asteraceae | Pectis prostrata | Roadsides, mowed areas, other dry disturbed areas. | Native of tropical America (probably including s. FL). Reported for NC (Basinger, pers. comm., 2006), GA (Carter, Baker, & Morris 2009), and SC (Bradley et al. [in prep.]). |  |