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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caryophyllaceae | Sabulina diffusa | Calcareous ledges and glades. | E. and c. KY, sw. VA, and e. and c. TN; also s. MO. | ||
| Caryophyllaceae | Sabulina fontinalis | Seepage Starwort, Water Starwort | Seepages and wet cliffs, disturbed areas, over calcareous substrate, growing from moss mats; rarely in lawns. | C. TN (Chester, Wofford, & Kral 1997) and c. KY; disjunct in the Black Belt of AL (B. Keener, pers. comm., 2023). |  |
| Caryophyllaceae | Sabulina michauxii | Rock Sandwort | Limestone, dolostone, calcareous sandstone, serpentine, and calcareous shale outcrops and barrens. | ME west to SD, south to VA, AL, nw. AR, TX, and NM. |  |
| Caryophyllaceae | Sabulina muscorum | Lime-barren Sandwort | Rocky barrens of calcareous or mafic rocks, sandy barrens. | MO, e. KS, e. OK, and e. TX. |  |
| Caryophyllaceae | Sabulina paludicola | Godfrey's Sandwort | Tidal freshwater marshes, calcareous seeps, other wetlands. | Peculiarly and irregularly distributed, with isolated and scattered locations in the Coastal Plain and Mountains: wc. VA, ne. TN, e. NC, ne. SC, e. Panhandle FL, n. peninsular FL, and wc. AL. The c. TN material is likely not the same as S. paludicola. Reports from s. AR were misidentified. |  |
| Caryophyllaceae | Sabulina patula | Lime-barren Sandwort | Rocky barrens of calcareous or mafic rocks. | Ec. PA and w. VA west to IN and MN, south to AL and TX. |  |