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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poaceae | Zea mays ssp. mays | Corn, Maize | Very commonly cultivated, rarely volunteering in old fields or around trashpiles, common in cultivation, rare as a short-lived escape. | Native of Mexico. Zea is one of the most important cultivated plants in the world, originating in Mexico, probably from Zea mays ssp. parviglumis Iltis & Doebley. |  |
| Poaceae | Zea mays ssp. mexicana | Chalco Teosinte, Nobogame Teosinte | Fields, other disturbed areas. | Reported for AL (Kartesz 1999) and FL (Hansen & Wunderlin 2006). | |
| Poaceae | Zea mays ssp. parviglumis | Guerrero Teosinte, Balsas Teosinte | Disturbed areas, cultivated as a novelty. | Native of Mexico. | |
| Poaceae | Zea perennis | Mexican Teosinte | Disturbed areas; apparently established at least formerly. | Native to Jalisco, Mexico. Z. perennis was considered by Hitchcock & Chase (1951) to be "established on James Island, S.C.". |  |