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 | Robinia hispida var. fertilis | Arnot Bristly Locust | Woodlands and forests. | Apparently endemic to the Southern Appalachians of w. NC and e. TN. |  |
| Fabaceae | Robinia hispida var. hispida | Common Bristly Locust | Woodlands and forests, and as an escape in disturbed areas and roadsides. | Probably originally endemic to the Southern Appalachians (and perhaps adjacent provinces) of NC, SC, GA, TN, and VA, now widely distributed in e. North America as an escape from cultivation. |  |
| Fabaceae | Robinia hispida var. kelseyi | Kelsey's Locust | Mountain woodlands, introduced elsewhere. | Traditionally considered an endemic originally restricted to w. NC, but Cronquist (1980) and Isely & Peabody (1984) suggest that var. kelseyi may have been only of horticultural origin. |  |
| Fabaceae | Robinia hispida var. rosea | Boynton's Locust | Pitch pine woodlands, other mountain woodlands. | Originally distributed from se. KY, s. VA, and e. TN south to nw. SC, n. GA, and ne. AL, now occasionally found outside that range as an escape from cultivation. |  |