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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primulaceae | Primula fassettii | Jeweled Shooting-star | Moist ledges and bluffs over calcareous rocks. | WI and MN south to IL and MO; disjunct in sc. and se. PA. This species has been reported for ne. WV; those reports are in error. |  |
| Primulaceae | Primula frenchii | French's Shooting-star | Sandstone rockhouses, ledges, cliffs. | IN, IL, and MO south through KY to AL and AR. |  |
| Primulaceae | Primula japonica | Japanese Primrose |  | ||
| Primulaceae | Primula meadia | Eastern Shooting Star | Rich forests, woodlands, and rock outcrops (primarily calcareous or mafic), especially with nutrient-rich seepage, prairies, bluffs. | MD and PA west to s. WI, se. MN, IA, and OK, south to sc. SC, n. GA, n. FL (Gadsden County), AL, and TX. |  |
| Primulaceae | Primula veris | Cowslip, Cowslip Primrose | Gardens and suburban areas, used horticulturally and rarely persistent. | Native of Eurasia. |  |