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Support the Flora of the Southeastern US

2024 has been a banner year for making the best flora we can imagine. We've created:
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
Write-in vote: 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:

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Key to Celastrus

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1 Flowers in 2-3-flowered axillary cymes; mature leaves mostly obovate, averaging 1.2-1.4 (-1.7)× as long as wide; leaf tips typically < 0.3 cm long; expanding leaves folded (conduplicate); capsule yellow (contrasting with the seeds); pollen white; roots typically more orange-colored
1 Flowers in 6-many-flowered panicles terminal on leafy branches or branchlets; mature leaves mostly ovate-lanceolate to elliptic, averaging (1.8-) 2.0-2.6× as long as wide; leaf tips typically > 1.5 cm long; expanding leaves rolled (involute); capsule orange (similar in color to the seeds); pollen yellow; roots typically more yellow-colored