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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fabaceae | Vachellia bravoensis | Bravo Acacia, Twisted Acacia, Huisachillo | Scrub or chaparral. | S. TX, n. Mexico. |  |
| Fabaceae | Vachellia choriophylla | Cinnecord | Pine rocklands, rockland hammocks, disturbed uplands. | S. FL (Miami-Dade County and Monroe County keys); West Indies (Bahamas, Cuba). |  |
| Fabaceae | Vachellia constricta | Mescat Acacia | Arid scrub; eastwards as a waif on chrome ore piles. | S. TX, w. TX, NM, and AZ south into Mexico (many states). |  |
| Fabaceae | Vachellia cornigera | Bullhorn Acacia | Suburban woodlands. | Native of Central America. |  |
| Fabaceae | Vachellia densiflora | Small’s Sweet Acacia, Huisache | Sandy flats on barrier islands, maritime scrub, shell middens, disturbed uplands. | FL Panhandle west along the coast to TX and Tamaulipas. | |
| Fabaceae | Vachellia farnesiana | Common Sweet Acacia, Huisache, Opoponax, Cashia, Aroma, Cassie, Yellow Opopanax | Sandy flats on barrier islands, maritime scrub, shell middens. | E. GA, along the coast, south to s. FL; the GA occurrence appears native (see Duncan 1985); Bahamas; West Indies. |  |
| Fabaceae | Vachellia macracantha | Apopanax, Longspine Acacia, Porknut, Cuindora | Coastal hammocks, also planted as an ornamental and rarely naturalized. | S. and c. FL peninsula; Bahamas; Mexico, Central America, and South America. |  |
| Fabaceae | Vachellia peninsularis | Huisache, Florida Sweet Acacia | Pine rocklands, marl prairies, coastal berms, shell mounds, disturbed uplands. | Endemic to FL. |  |
| Fabaceae | Vachellia rigidula | Chaparro Prieto, Blackbrush, Blackbrush Acacia | Scrub on sandy loam or calcareous soils. | S. and sw. TX south to Mexico. |  |
| Fabaceae | Vachellia sphaerocephala | Bee Wattle | Disturbed uplands, also cultivated. | Native of Mexico. |  |
| Fabaceae | Vachellia tortuosa | Poponax | Shell middens, coastal scrub. | S. FL; West Indies; n. South America. |  |