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 | Sorghastrum apalachicolense | Apalachicola Indiangrass, Open Indiangrass | Pine flatwoods and longleaf pine sandhills. | Panhandle FL west to s. MS (Sorrie & Leonard 1999). It may well occur as well in GA. |  |
| Poaceae | Sorghastrum elliottii | Slender Indiangrass | Woodlands and forests, river-scour areas, including oak-hickory forests and woodlands over mafic rocks. | MD south to FL and west to TX, inland to TN, AR, and OK, mainly on the Coastal Plain, but extending inland to other physiographic provinces. |  |
| Poaceae | Sorghastrum nutans | Yellow Indiangrass | Xeric and mesic woodlands and forests of a wide variety, prairies, barrens, powerline rights-of-way, roadbanks. Along with Andropogon gerardi, Schizachyrium scoparium, and Panicum virgatum, Sorghastrum nutans is one of the dominant grasses of the tall-grass prairie. It is also common in a variety of open habitats (natural and altered) in the forested landscape of eastern North America. | ME and QC west to s. MB, south to c. peninsular FL, TX, UT, AZ, and s. Mexico. |  |
| Poaceae | Sorghastrum secundum | Lopsided Indiangrass | Longleaf pine sandhills, Florida dry prairies, pine rocklands. | S. SC south to s. FL and west to s. AL (Sorrie & Leonard 1999); n. Bahamas. |  |