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 | Vigna angularis | Adzuki Bean | Waif from cultivation. | Native of e. Asia. | |
| Fabaceae | Vigna hosei | Sarawak Bean | A waif from cultivation, also "naturalized in southern Florida" (Delgado-Salinas 2023b). | Native of tropical Asia. |  |
| Fabaceae | Vigna lasiocarpa | Waif from cultivation. | Native of Mexico to South America. | ||
| Fabaceae | Vigna luteola | Wild Cowpea | Edges of freshwater tidal marshes, beaches, hammocks, disturbed areas, railroad embankments, low fields, in the outer Coastal Plain. | Se. NC south to s. FL, west to se. TX, and in the New World tropics. |  |
| Fabaceae | Vigna mungo | Mung Bean, Blackgram | Waif on ore piles. | Native of se. Asia. | |
| Fabaceae | Vigna radiata | Mung Bean, Green Gran, Golden Gram | Waif from cultivation. | ||
| Fabaceae | Vigna unguiculata | Black-eyed Pea, Field Pea, Cowpea, Crowder Pea, Yardlong Bean | Cultivated in commercial and home gardens, rarely persistent or occurring as a waif in disturbed areas. | Native of tropical Africa. |  |