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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rosaceae | Pyrus betulifolia | Birchleaf Pear | Old fields, meadows. | Native of China. Naturalizing in Prince George's County, MD (Wright et al. (2023). | |
| Rosaceae | Pyrus calleryana | Bradford Pear, Callery Pear | Commonly planted and persistent, now an aggressive naturalizer in fields, roadsides, and disturbed areas across most of our region. | Native of China. |  |
| Rosaceae | Pyrus communis | Common Pear | Planted, persistent around old houses and in orchards. | Native of Europe. |  |
| Rosaceae | Pyrus pyrifolia | Oriental Pear, Japanese Pear, Chinese Pear | Planted, persistent around old houses and in orchards, showing a tendency to spread from plantings. | Native of Asia. Reported for Laurens County, SC (Bradley et al. [in prep.]). |  |
| Rosaceae | Pyrus serrulata | Old fields. | Native of China. |