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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poaceae | Puccinellia distans | European Alkali-Grass, Goosegrass | Disturbed roadsides, coastal sands. | Native of Eurasia. Confirmed for Watauga County, NC (Poindexter, pers. comm. 2009). |  |
| Poaceae | Puccinellia fasciculata | Eastern Alkali-Grass, Saltmarsh Goosegrass | Salt or brackish marshes. | NS south to VA; Europe; and in sw. United States. The native or introduced status of this species in ne. North America is controversial. |  |
| Poaceae | Puccinellia maritima | Seaside Alkali-Grass, Seaside Speargrass | Salt marshes and ballast near ports. | Introduced south to se. PA (Philadelphia), NJ (Camden), and DE, especially on ballast |  |
| Poaceae | Puccinellia rupestris | Stiff Alkali-Grass | Ballast waifs, other disturbed areas. | Native of Eurasia. |