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 | Abrus | Precatory Bean |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Acacia | Wattle, Acacia |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Acaciella | Acacia |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Acmispon | American Bird’s-foot-trefoil, Prairie-trefoil |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Adenanthera | Beadtree |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Aeschynomene | Jointvetch |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Albizia | Silktree |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Alhagi | Camelthorn | |||
| Fabaceae | Alysicarpus | Alyce Clover |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Amorpha | Indigo-bush, Leadplant |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Amphicarpaea | Hog-peanut |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Andira | ||||
| Fabaceae | Anthyllis | Kidney-vetch, Woundwort |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Apios | Groundnut |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Arachis | Peanut |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Astragalus | Milkvetch, Locoweed |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Baptisia | Wild Indigo |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Bauhinia | Orchid-tree |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Bituminaria | Arabian-pea |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Caesalpinia |  | |||
| Fabaceae | Cajanus | Pigeonpea |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Callerya |  | |||
| Fabaceae | Calliandra |  | |||
| Fabaceae | Canavalia |  | |||
| Fabaceae | Caragana |  | |||
| Fabaceae | Cassia | Cassia |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Centrosema | Spurred Butterfly Pea |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Cercis | Redbud |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Chamaecrista | Partridge-pea |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Chapmannia | Alicia |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Cicer | Chick Pea, Garbanzo |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Cladrastis | Yellow-wood |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Clitoria | Butterfly Pea, Pigeonwings |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Cochliasanthus | Snailflower, Snail Bean |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Colutea |  | |||
| Fabaceae | Coursetia | Babybonnets | |||
| Fabaceae | Crotalaria | Rattlebox |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Ctenodon |  | |||
| Fabaceae | Cullen |  | |||
| Fabaceae | Cytisus | Broom |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Dalbergia | Indian Rosewood |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Dalea | Prairie-clover |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Delonix | Poinciana |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Denisophytum | A genus of about 8-9 species, of Africa, South America, and the West Indies (including Florida) (Gagnon et al. 2016). |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Dermatophyllum |  | |||
| Fabaceae | Desmanthus | Bundleflower |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Desmodium | Tick-trefoil, Tick-clover, Beggar's-ticks, Stick-tights |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Dichrostachys | Sickle Bush |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Ebenopsis |  | |||
| Fabaceae | Enterolobium |  | |||
| Fabaceae | Erythrina | Coral Bean |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Erythrostemon |  | |||
| Fabaceae | Eysenhardtia |  | |||
| Fabaceae | Galactia | Milkpea |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Galega | Goat's-rue |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Genista | Dyer's Greenweed |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Gleditsia | Honey Locust, Water Locust |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Gliricidia | Madre de Cacao | |||
| Fabaceae | Glycine | Soybean, Soya |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Glycyrrhiza | Licorice |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Grona |  | |||
| Fabaceae | Guilandina | Nicker |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Gymnocladus | Kentucky Coffee-tree |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Havardia |  | |||
| Fabaceae | Hippocrepis |  | |||
| Fabaceae | Hoffmannseggia |  | |||
| Fabaceae | Hylodesmum | Forest Tick-trefoil |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Indigofera | Indigo |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Kummerowia | Korean-clover, Japanese-clover |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Lablab | Hyacinth-bean |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Lackeya |  | |||
| Fabaceae | Ladeania | Scurfpea |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Lathyrus | Wild-pea, Vetchling |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Lens | Lentil |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Leptospron |  | |||
| Fabaceae | Lespedeza | Lespedeza |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Leucaena | Leadtree, Leucaena |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Listia | ||||
| Fabaceae | Lonchocarpus | ||||
| Fabaceae | Lotus | Birdsfoot-trefoil |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Lupinus | Lupine |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Lysiloma |  | |||
| Fabaceae | Maackia | Maackia |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Macroptilium |  | |||
| Fabaceae | Medicago | Medick, Bur-clover |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Melilotus | Melilot, Sweetclover, Sourclover |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Millettia |  | |||
| Fabaceae | Mimosa | Mimosa |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Mucuna | Velvetbean |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Neltuma | Mesquite |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Neonotonia | Perennial Soybean |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Neptunia | Neptunia |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Onobrychis |  | |||
| Fabaceae | Ononis | Rest-harrow |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Orbexilum | Scurfpea, Sampson's-snakeroot, Leather-root |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Ornithopus |  | |||
| Fabaceae | Oxytropis | Locoweed, Oxytrope |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Pachyrhizus | Yam-bean | |||
| Fabaceae | Parkinsonia | Paloverde, Jerusalem Thorn |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Pediomelum | Buckroot, Prairie-turnip |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Peltophorum |  | |||
| Fabaceae | Phanera | Asian-plume |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Phaseolus | Bean |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Piscidia | Fishpoison Tree |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Pisum | Pea |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Pithecellobium |  | |||
| Fabaceae | Pomaria |  | |||
| Fabaceae | Psophocarpus |  | |||
| Fabaceae | Pueraria | Kudzu |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Rhynchosia | Snoutbean |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Robinia | Locust |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Samanea | ||||
| Fabaceae | Scorpiurus | Scorpion’s-tail |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Securigera | Crown-vetch |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Senegalia | Acacia, Catclaw |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Senna | Senna, Sicklepod, Wild Coffee |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Sesbania | Rattlebox, Sesban |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Sigmoidotropis | ||||
| Fabaceae | Sophora | Necklacepod | |||
| Fabaceae | Spartium | Spanish Broom |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Strombocarpa | Screwbean |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Strophostyles | Sand Bean, Woolly Bean, Wild Bean, Fuzzy Bean |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Stylosanthes | Pencil-flower |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Styphnolobium | Pagoda Tree |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Tamarindus | Tamarind |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Tara |  | |||
| Fabaceae | Tephrosia | Goat's-rue |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Thermopsis | Golden-banner |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Ticanto | Ticanto | |||
| Fabaceae | Trifolium | Clover |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Trigonella | Fenugreek |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Ulex | Gorse |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Vachellia | Acacia |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Vicia | Vetch, Tare |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Vigna | Cowpea |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Wisteria | Wisteria |  | ||
| Fabaceae | Zornia | Zornia |  |