FloraQuest: Northern Tier App Released

Alan Weakley and the Southeastern Flora Team are thrilled to announce the release of FloraQuest: Northern Tier, a new plant identification and discovery app covering more than 5,800 wildflowers, trees, shrubs, grasses, and other vascular plants occurring in the northern part of The Flora of the Southeastern United States (FSUS). 

With FloraQuest: Northern Tier, you can customize the northern tier flora by state and physiographic province.

With easy-to-use graphic keys, advanced dichotomous keys, habitat descriptions, range maps, and 20,000 diagnostic photographs, FloraQuest: Northern Tier is the perfect companion for your botanical explorations. FloraQuest: Northern Tier doesn’t need an internet connection to run, so you can take it with you wherever you go in the field.

You can use FloraQuest to learn about and identify all plants occurring within the 12-state “northern tier” portion of the FSUS. The app allows you to filter the state and physiographic region in which you are botanizing, seeing only relevant results close to you. Do you struggle to remember complicated botanical terms? We’ve got you covered: click on a word you don’t know, and the definition will pop up in the app without you having to leave the page! 

This app covers Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Washington (D.C.), Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and parts of New York, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. In the coming years, our Flora team will be releasing additional apps for the remaining regions of the Southeastern Flora. Next up is North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. 

  • Begin the graphic key with a choice of which plant group you are in, with multiple images for each group
  • Answer further quick questions in the Graphic Key to find the plant you’ve encountered. Here, 14 plants matched.
  • Browse plants based on search or graphic key results
  • Species photos
  • Species distribution, phenology, habitat, comments, synonymy, and more
  • Species range maps with legend
  • More options
  • Configure which states or regions within states to show
  • The range of FloraQuest: Northern Tier

FloraQuest: Northern Tier is available for both iOS and Android devices for $19.99.  

We remain committed to traditional floras and making flora data accessible: you can access the FSUS web app or download the latest PDF of the Flora of the Southeastern United States for free (donations optional) at ncbg.unc.edu/research/unc-herbarium/floras/.