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 | Saccharum officinarum | Sugarcane | Cultivated in s. peninsular FL and along the Gulf Coast, mainly in LA, and sparingly persistent. | Native of se. Asia. Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum Linnaeus, S. sinense Roxburgh, S. barberi Jeswiet, S. spontaneum Linnaeus, and cultivars and hybrids derived from those four species) is cultivated along the Gulf Coast, notably in FL and LA. |  |
| Poaceae | Saccharum spontaneum | Wild Sugarcane | Disturbed areas, lake edges, especially around Lake Okeechobee in vicinity of sugarcane fields. | Native of tropical Asia and Africa. |  |