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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thelypteridaceae | Pelazoneuron abruptum var. grande | Stately Maiden Fern | Cypress strand swamps. | S. FL (Collier County); West Indies. | |
| Thelypteridaceae | Pelazoneuron augescens | Abrupt-tipped Maiden Fern | Rockland hammocks, limestone outcrops, swamps, disturbed wetlands and uplands. | S. FL; West Indies (Bahamas, Cuba); s. Mexico (Quintana Róo); Central America (Guatemala). | |
| Thelypteridaceae | Pelazoneuron kunthii | Kunth's Maiden Fern, Southern Shield Fern | Coquina limestone (‘marl’) outcrops, calcareous bluffs and sinkhole slopes, also adventive on and around coquina limestone (marl) riprap around small bridges and ditches and in suburban forests. | Se. NC south to s. FL and west to c. TX; West Indies; Mexico south through Central America into n. South America. |  |
| Thelypteridaceae | Pelazoneuron ovatum var. lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Maiden Fern, San Saba Fern | Low moist forests, moist limestone outcrops. | C. TX and barely e. TX west to w. TX, south through Mexico and Central America to South America; West Indies (Jamaica). |  |
| Thelypteridaceae | Pelazoneuron ovatum var. ovatum | Ovate Maiden Fern | On coquina limestone (‘marl’) or in disturbed, calcareous areas. | E. SC south to s. FL, west to s. AL; Bahamas. |  |
| Thelypteridaceae | Pelazoneuron patens | Grid-scale Maiden Fern | Rockland hammocks. | S. FL (Miami-Dade County); West Indies; Mexico, Central America, and South America. |