High Country Apps
FLORAQUEST: SOUTH CENTRAL
LAUNCHED MID AUGUST 2025! A guide to more than 5,500 wildflowers, trees, shrubs, grasses, and other vascular plants occurring in Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Partner: University of North Carolina's Southeastern Flora Team. ($19.99)
Introducing FloraQuest: South Central, the latest addition to the FloraQuest™ family of apps! Developed by the University of North Carolina's Southeastern Flora Team, this comprehensive app is your guide to 5,549 plant species found throughout Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
What Makes FloraQuest: South Central Stand Out?
FloraQuest: South Central offers a unique experience for plant enthusiasts and professionals alike, featuring:
- Easy-to-use graphic keys
- Powerful dichotomous keys
- Detailed habitat descriptions
- Comprehensive range maps
- A library of over 38,000 high-quality diagnostic photographs
- Offline plant identification – no internet connection needed!
Building upon the success of four previous FloraQuest apps, "FloraQuest: South Central" introduces several exciting enhancements:
- Illustrated glossary terms
- Image-enhanced dichotomous keys
- Dark mode support
- Plant sharing capabilities
- Improved graphic keys
- Enhanced search functionality with base 2 and base 3 codes
- Great Places to Botanize will guide you to recommended botanical exploration sites across Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
FloraQuest: South Central is part of our larger vision to bring comprehensive flora guides to all 25 states in our research region. Keep an eye out for the upcoming release of FloraQuest: Western Tier, covering Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas next year!
Press Reviews
Out Now: FloraQuest: South Central
"Do you live or botanize in Tennessee, Mississippi, or Alabama? Have you been eagerly awaiting the release of a FloraQuest app that covers your state? It’s happening: FloraQuest: South-Central is out now for iOS and Android!
This mobile app, the fourth installment of FloraQuest apps from our Southeastern Flora Team, covers more than 5,500 native and non-native plants that occur in Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama.
It includes illustrated dichotomous keys, helpful ID notes, a graphic (multi-access) key, tens of thousands of diagnostic plant photographs, an extensive botanical glossary, and additional features like a “Great Places to Botanize” guide for each state.
All of our FloraQuest apps – Northern Tier, Carolinas & Georgia, Florida, and now South-Central – give you access to scientific flora information so you can can identify species in remote field settings without internet access.
Each app is available for a one-time fee of $20, which includes free annual updates to flora data and photos. Purchasing an app supports our team’s ongoing work to deepen and clarify plant identification across the Southeast!"
North Carolina Botanical Garden News, Scott Ward, August 19, 2025
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