Gil Nelson,^1,* Patrick Sweeney,² Lisa E. Wallace,³ Richard K. Rabeler,⁴ Dorothy Allard,⁵ Herrick Brown,⁶ J. Richard Carter,⁷ Michael W. Denslow,⁸ Elizabeth R. Ellwood,⁹ Charlotte C. Germain-Aubrey,¹⁰ Ed Gilbert,¹¹ Emily Gillespie,¹² Leslie R. Goertzen,¹³ Ben Legler,¹⁴ D. Blaine Marchant,^10,15 Travis D. Marsico,¹⁶ Ashley B. Morris,¹⁷ Zack Murrell,⁸ Mare Nazaire,¹⁸ Chris Neefus,¹⁹ Shanna Oberreiter,²⁰ Deborah Paul,¹ Brad R. Ruhfel,²¹ Thomas Sasek,²² Joey Shaw,²³ Pamela S. Soltis,¹⁰ Kimberly Watson,²⁴ Andrea Weeks,²⁵ Austin R. Mast<sup>9

1</sup>2Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio), Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306
²3Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
³4Department of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, US
⁴5University of Michigan Herbarium—EEB, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
⁵6Department of Plant Biology, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA
⁶7Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
⁷8Biology Department, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia, USA
⁸9Department of Biology, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, USA
⁹10Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
¹⁰11Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
¹¹12School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
¹²13Department of Biological Sciences, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, USA
¹³14Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA
¹⁴15Burke Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
¹⁵16Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
¹⁶17Department of Biological Sciences, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA
¹⁷18Department of Biology, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA
¹⁸19Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, California, USA
¹⁹20Department of Biological Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA
²⁰21University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
²¹22Department of Biological Sciences, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky, USA
²²23Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Monroe, Monroe, Louisiana, USA
²³24Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
²⁴25William and Lynda Steere Herbarium, The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York, USA
²⁵26Department of Biology and the Ted R. Bradley Herbarium, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia

^*Author for correspondence: gnelson@bio.fsu.edu