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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orchidaceae | Triphora amazonica | Broad-leaved Nodding-caps | Moist forests. | C. peninsular FL; West Indies; Central America; Brazil. |  |
| Orchidaceae | Triphora craigheadii | Craighead’s Nodding-caps | Moist forests, near limestone outcroppings. | Endemic to s. peninsular FL. |  |
| Orchidaceae | Triphora gentianoides | Gentian Nodding-caps | Tropical hammocks, pine rocklands, mulch in suburban areas. | S. FL (on the west coast from Pinellas County south to Collier County, and on the east coast from St. Lucie County south to Miami-Dade County); West Indies; Central America and n. South America. |  |
| Orchidaceae | Triphora rickettii | Rickett’s Nodding-caps | Upland hardwood hammocks. | Ne. FL (Columbia County) south into wc. peninsular FL. |  |
| Orchidaceae | Triphora trianthophoros var. trianthophoros | Three Birds Orchid, Nodding Pogonia, Nodding Ettercap | Humid forests and swamps, rhododendron thickets, especially on rotten logs or on humus, in the mountains often under hemlock. | The species is widespread (but scattered) in e. North America, and south into Central America. Var. trianthophoros occurs from ME and ON west to WI, south to c. peninsular FL and e. TX; disjunct in nc. Mexico; var. mexicana (S. Watson) P.M. Brown occurs from Mexico south to Central America. |  |