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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agavaceae | Manfreda longiflora | Runyon's Huaco, St. Joseph's Staff | Gravelly slopes in thorn shrublands dominated by Vachellia rigidula and on saline clay flats in low succulent shrublands dominated by Varilla texana (Carr 2016). | S. TX and ne Mexico (NLE, TAM). |  |
| Agavaceae | Manfreda maculosa | Texas Tube-rose, Spice-lily, Amole Plant, Huaco | Prairies, mesquital. | S. TX south to ne. Mexico (COA, NLE, TAM). | |
| Agavaceae | Manfreda sileri | Major Siler's Tube-rose, Major Siler's Huaco | In a variety of grasslands and shrublands. | S. and sc. TX (Bexar, Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr and Webb counties) to ne. Mexico (TAM). | |
| Agavaceae | Manfreda variegata | Mottled Tube-rose, Huaco, Amole | Rocky slopes and chaparral. | S. TX south into c. Mexico. |  |
| Agavaceae | Manfreda virginica ssp. lata | Broadleaf False-aloe, Blackland False-aloe | Mostly in clay Vertisols of blackland prairie sites (Carr 2016). | S. OK south to ne. TX; "endemic to the Crosstimbers and Southern Tallgrass Prairie Ecoregion of North Texas and adjacent Oklahoma" (Carr 2016). |  |
| Agavaceae | Manfreda virginica ssp. virginica | Eastern Agave, Rattlesnake-master, Eastern False-aloe | Granite flatrocks, diabase glades, limestone and dolomite barrens and glades, xeric woodlands over mafic or calcareous rocks, sandhill woodlands, dry roadbanks. | E. SC, c. NC, sw. VA, w. WV, s. OH, s. IN, s. IL, and c. MO south to c. peninsular FL and TX. |  |