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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salicaceae | Populus ×canadensis | Hybrid Black Poplar, 'Carolina Poplar' | Disturbed areas. | A hybrid of a New World species and an Old World species. | |
| Salicaceae | Populus ×canescens | Gray Poplar | Roadsides, disturbed areas. | Native of Europe. Occurs at scattered locations in TN, n. GA (Jones & Coile 1988), se. PA (Rhoads & Block 2007), and NC, SC, and VA (Kartesz 1999). See Poindexter (2006). |  |
| Salicaceae | Populus ×jackii | Balm-of-Gilead | Bottomlands, riverbanks, streambanks, spread from cultivation. | P. ×jackii is locally abundant along the New River in Watauga, Ashe, and Alleghany counties, NC and downstream into VA. |  |
| Salicaceae | Populus ×smithii | {habitat}. | South to MD and WV | ||
| Salicaceae | Populus alba | Silver Poplar, White Poplar | Disturbed areas, roadsides, forest edges, suburban woodlands. | Native of Europe. |  |
| Salicaceae | Populus balsamifera | Balsam Poplar, Hackmatack, Tacamahac | Floodplains, disturbed areas. Occurring further north in a variety of habitats such as depressions, drainages, river bottoms, spruce-aspen forests, or on well-drained sites atop glacial deposits. | NL (Labrador) and AK south to PA, WV, OH, IN, IL, IA, SD, CO, ID, and OR; scattered farther south by introduction. Ranges south to s. PA (Rhoads & Block 2007), e. and c. KY (Clark et al. 2005), and to VA (according to Kartesz 1999). Also reported for n. GA (Jones & Coile 1988) and provisionally for SC (Kartesz 1999), but apparently based on a specimen from cultivation. Many of the attributions of this species to states in our area are based on misidentifications. |  |
| Salicaceae | Populus deltoides ssp. deltoides | Eastern Cottonwood | Riverbanks, bottomland forests (not found along blackwater streams), river bars, rarely weedy in upland situations. | QC west to MN, south to n. peninsular FL, Panhandle FL, and TX. |  |
| Salicaceae | Populus deltoides ssp. monilifera | Plains Cottonwood, Texas Cottonwood | Bottomland forests, swamps, marshes, moist disturbed areas. | QC west to BC, south to PA, OH, IN, IL, MO, nc. TX, NM, ID, and OR. |  |
| Salicaceae | Populus grandidentata | Bigtooth Aspen | Dry, rocky, upland forests, old fields, forest edges, mesic forests. | NS west to MN, south to w. NC, ne. GA, sc. TN, and n. MO. |  |
| Salicaceae | Populus heterophylla | Swamp Cottonwood | Blackwater and brownwater swamp forests, tidal swamp forests, depression ponds, interdune ponds. | CT west to MI, south to Panhandle FL and LA, scattered and irregular in distribution, absent from the Appalachians. |  |
| Salicaceae | Populus nigra | Black Poplar, Lombardy Poplar | Disturbed suburban areas. | Native of s. Europe. Cultivated in various forms, especially the columnar ‘Lombardy Poplar’; short-lived and weakly spreading to disturbed areas in the vicinity of plantings, especially by root sprouts (Diamond 2013). |  |
| Salicaceae | Populus tomentosa | Chinese White Poplar | Native of China; reported for ne. LA (Kartesz 2022). | ||
| Salicaceae | Populus tremuloides | Quaking Aspen | Heath balds, rocky woodlands, exposed rock outcrops, clearings, floodplains. | NL (Labrador) west to AK, south to NJ, n. VA, nw. NC (where perhaps not native), WV, MO, and (in the Rockies) to TX and s. Mexico. |  |