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 | Sagina apetala | Annual Pearlwort | Disturbed areas. | Native of Europe. |  |
| Caryophyllaceae | Sagina decumbens | Eastern Pearlwort, Annual Pearlwort | Disturbed ground, fields, cracks in pavement or sidewalks. | NB west to IL and MO, south to c. peninsular FL and TX, with adventive occurrences farther west. |  |
| Caryophyllaceae | Sagina japonica | Japanese Pearlwort | Disturbed areas. | Native of e. Asia. Also naturalized in se. PA (Rhoads & Block 2007). |  |
| Caryophyllaceae | Sagina procumbens | Northern Pearlwort, Bird's-eye, Perennial Pearlwort | Disturbed soils. | Native of Eurasia (or, perhaps, also ne. North America). Crow (1978) questions whether S. procumbens is native at all in the Western Hemisphere. In North America, it is concentrated in two main regions, from NS and QC south to MD, and from sw. BC south to c. CA, with scattered occurrences elsewhere, such as around the Great Lakes, CO, AR, s. OH, and w. NC. Whether or not the species is native in the New World, the occurrence in NC (in a gravel parking lot on top of Roan Mountain) is almost certainly adventive. |  |