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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lamiaceae | Vitex agnus-castus | Chaste-tree | Pastures, woodland edges, suburban woodlands. | Native of Mediterranean Europe. |  |
| Lamiaceae | Vitex glabrata | Smooth Chaste-tree | Disturbed areas. | Native of Asia and Australia. | |
| Lamiaceae | Vitex negundo | Chinese Chaste-tree | Disturbed areas, road shoulders. | Native of China. Reported for FL, MS, LA, KY, with uncertain documentation. See Barger et al. (2012) for additional discussion of this species in AL. |  |
| Lamiaceae | Vitex rotundifolia | Beach Vitex, Roundleaf Chaste-tree | Coastal dunes, planted for ornament and stabilization and now spreading aggressively as an invasive species. | Native of e. Asia, se. Asia, and nearby islands. |  |
| Lamiaceae | Vitex trifolia | Three-leaf Chaste-tree | Disturbed areas. | Native of e. and se. Asia, Australia, Pacific Islands. |  |