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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plantaginaceae | Veronica agrestis | Field Speedwell | Lawns and disturbed areas. | Native of Eurasia. |  |
| Plantaginaceae | Veronica americana | American Speedwell, Brooklime | Bogs, marshes, streamsides. | NL (Newfoundland) west to AK, south to NC, TN, n. AL, MO, TX, and CA; ne. Asia. |  |
| Plantaginaceae | Veronica anagallis-aquatica | Water Speedwell | Bogs, marshes, streamsides, ditches. | Circumboreal, south in North America to c. peninsular FL, TX, and CA; some occurrences probably represent introductions of European material. Some authors interpret V. anagallis-aquatica as being strictly non-native in North America. |  |
| Plantaginaceae | Veronica arvensis | Corn Speedwell, Wall Speedwell | Fields, roadsides, disturbed areas. | Native of Eurasia. |  |
| Plantaginaceae | Veronica beccabunga | European Brooklime | Wet places. | Native of Europe. Naturalized south to MD, WV, and perhaps VA. |  |
| Plantaginaceae | Veronica catenata | Chain Speedwell | Streams and wetlands. | Circumboreal, the southern limits obscure because of taxonomic confusion, misidentifications, and misattributions. |  |
| Plantaginaceae | Veronica chamaedrys ssp. chamaedrys | Germander Speedwell | Roadsides, golf courses, lawns, rarely naturalized in forests. | Native of Eurasia. |  |
| Plantaginaceae | Veronica cymbalaria | Pale Speedwell | Lawns. | Native of Mediterranean Europe. |  |
| Plantaginaceae | Veronica dillenii | Dillenius’s Speedwell | Disturbed areas. | Native of Europe. | |
| Plantaginaceae | Veronica filiformis | Creeping Speedwell | Lawns, disturbed areas. | Native of Eurasia. In WV, MD, and scattered in PA (Rhoads & Klein 1993). |  |
| Plantaginaceae | Veronica hederifolia | Ivyleaf Speedwell | Lawns, fields, disturbed areas. | Native of Europe. |  |
| Plantaginaceae | Veronica longifolia | Garden Speedwell, Longleaf Speedwell | Disturbed areas. | Native of Europe. In WV, scattered in PA (Rhoads & Klein 1993), KY, and in MD (F). |  |
| Plantaginaceae | Veronica officinalis | Common Speedwell, Gypsyweed, Heath Speedwell | Fields and forests; often interpreted as being of mixed native and alien background in North America. |  | |
| Plantaginaceae | Veronica peregrina var. peregrina | Common Purslane Speedwell, Necklace-weed | Fields, roadsides, disturbed areas. | NS and ND south to FL and TX; AK south to OR (perhaps only as an introduction?); South America. |  |
| Plantaginaceae | Veronica peregrina var. xalapensis | Western Purslane Speedwell | Fields, lawns, disturbed places; in the eastern part of our area probably introduced on ballast. | QC and AK south to MA, KY, TX, and south to Guatemala. |  |
| Plantaginaceae | Veronica persica | Bird's-eye Speedwell | Lawns, fields, roadsides, disturbed areas. | Native of Eurasia. |  |
| Plantaginaceae | Veronica polita | Wayside Speedwell | Lawns, waste areas. | Native of Eurasia. This species is introduced in c. TN (Chester, Wofford, & Kral 1997), WV, and s. PA (Rhoads & Klein 1993), FL (Pennell 1935; Kunzer et al. 2009), NC (Kartesz 1999), VA (Kartesz 1999), and AL (H. Horne, pers. comm., 2013), and w. NC (D. Mercier, pers. comm., specimen at BOON, 2008). |  |
| Plantaginaceae | Veronica scutellata | Narrowleaf Speedwell | Marshes, swamps. | Circumboreal, south in North America to w. VA, NC?, TN, and CA. In ne. TN (Chester, Wofford, & Kral 1997). |  |
| Plantaginaceae | Veronica serpyllifolia var. humifusa | Damp places. | Circumboreal, south in North America to NY (including Long Island), n. MI, WI, MN, NM, AZ, and CA. Kartesz (2022) has as south to NY, including Long Island. May range south to MD, fide Pennell (1935) and Kartesz (1999). | ||
| Plantaginaceae | Veronica serpyllifolia var. serpyllifolia | Thymeleaf Speedwell | Meadows, lawns, roadsides, other disturbed areas. | Native of Eurasia. |  |
| Plantaginaceae | Veronica sublobata | Small Ivyleaf Speedwell | Lawns, fields, other disturbed areas. | Native of Europe. |  |
| Plantaginaceae | Veronica teucrium | Broad-leaved Speedwell | Disturbed areas. | Native of Eurasia. Naturalized at scattered locations in PA (Rhoads & Klein 1993) and MD (Kartesz 1999). |  |
| Plantaginaceae | Veronica triloba | Trilobed Speedwell | Disturbed areas. | Native of e. Europe and w. Asia. | |
| Plantaginaceae | Veronica triphyllos | Fingered Speedwell | Cultivated fields. | Native of Eurasia. |  |
| Plantaginaceae | Veronica undulata | Wavyleaf Water Speedwell | Disturbed wet places, ballast. | Native of Asia. |