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 | Aristida purpurea var. fendleriana | Rocky calcareous areas, prairies. | SD, MT, and CA south through OK, TX, NM, and AZ into Mexico. |  | |
| Poaceae | Aristida purpurea var. longiseta | Red Three-awn | Rocky and sandy areas, eastwards adventive in disturbed areas. | MB west to BC, south to TX, CA, and Mexico; adventive eastwards. Also reported from NC, but the collection is from a Soil Conservation Service test nursery, and there is no evidence of naturalization. |  |
| Poaceae | Aristida purpurea var. nealleyi | Nealley's Three-awn | Rocky slopes, woodlands and scrub. | KS and CA south to TX, NM, AZ, CA, and Mexico. |  |
| Poaceae | Aristida purpurea var. purpurea | Purple Three-awn | Sandy or rocky soils. | KS and CA south to LA, TX, NM, AZ, CA, and Mexico. |  |
| Poaceae | Aristida purpurea var. wrightii | Wright's Three-awn | Calcareous soils. | OK, CO, s. UT, s. NV, and s. CA south to s. TX and Mexico. |  |