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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dryopteridaceae | Polystichum acrostichoides | Christmas Fern | Moist to dry forests and woodlands, especially slopes, ravines, and small stream bottomlands. | NS west to MN, south to s. FL and e. TX; also in ne. Mexico (NLE and TAM). |  |
| Dryopteridaceae | Polystichum braunii | Braun's Holly-fern | Cool, rocky forested ravines. | Circumboreal, south in North America to MA, ec. PA, MI, n. WI, ne. MN, n. ID, and BC. |  |
| Dryopteridaceae | Polystichum munitum | Pacific Sword Fern | Disturbed areas. | Native of w. North America. Documented as weakly naturalized in Luzerne County, PA. |  |
| Dryopteridaceae | Polystichum polyblepharum | Japanese Tassel-fern | Moist ravines. | Native of e. Asia. Reported for AL as P. braunii (Spenner) Fée. |  |
| Dryopteridaceae | Polystichum tsus-simense | Korean Rock Fern | Disturbed areas. | Native of e. and se. Asia. |