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Your search found 302 taxa in the family Asteraceae, Aster or Sunflower family - with BOTH DISC AND RAY flowers, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
Common Name:
Spiny Cocklebur
Look for it in fields, disturbed ground
Waif(s)
Non-native: South America, apparently
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Common Name:
Common Cocklebur
Look for it in barnyards, pastures, bottomlands, other disturbed areas
Common
Original distribution unclear, but probably native to eastern North America
Look for it in disturbed ground, roadsides, pastures, barnyards
Common in Coastal Plain (uncommon in Piedmont & Mountains)
Original distribution unclear, widespread in e. N. America & nearly cosmopolitan
Look for it in ballast, waste areas near ports
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Butterweed, Smooth Ragwort, Yellowtop
Look for it in swamp forests, bottomland forests, cleared areas in bottomlands, often in mucky soils
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Blue Ridge Ragwort, Yarrowleaf Ragwort, Divided-leaf Ragwort
Look for it on granitic domes, cliffs, and rocky woodlands, over granite, gneiss, schist, and amphibolite
Rare, endemic to sw. NC, nw. SC, and ne. GA; disjunct in sw. VA
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Small's Ragwort, Squaw-weed, Appalachian Ragwort
Look for it on rock outcrops, roadsides, woodlands, hammocks, disturbed areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Woolly Ragwort
Look for it on sandy roadsides, in sandy woodlands & forests, granitic flatrocks, granitic domes
Common (rare in Mtns), primarily Coastal Plain, but extending inland
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Balsam Groundsel, Balsam Ragwort, Northern Meadow Groundsel
Look for it in thickets, meadows, glades, generally over circumneutral soils derived from calcareous or mafic rocks
Rare
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Look for it in bogs and fens
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Appalachian Ragwort
Look for it in glades, cliffs, barrens, over mafic, or calcareous rocks
Rare (an endemic)
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Buck Creek Ragwort, Serpentine Ragwort
Look for it in serpentine barrens
Rare (endemic to the Buck Creek Serpentine Barren, Clay County, NC)
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Robbins' Ragwort, New England Ragwort, New England Groundsel, Schweinitz's Ragwort
Look for it on grassy balds (in deep soil), at high elevations, in our area generally over metagabbro or amphibolite
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Golden Ragwort, Heartleaf Ragwort
Look for it in moist forests, bottomlands, bogs, streambanks
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Roundleaf Ragwort, Roundleaf Groundsel, Spatulate-leaved Ragwort, Running Ragwort
Look for it in nutrient-rich forests & woodlands (dry or moist), usually over calcareous or mafic rocks
Common in GA Mtns, uncommon or rare in Piedmont, rare in Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Leopard's-bane, Southeastern Arnica
Look for it in pine savannas, sandhills, clayey or sandy woodlands, powerline rights-of-way, roadbanks
Common (uncommon in Piedmont, rare in GA)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Woolly Sunbonnets, Pineland Daisy, Night-nodding Bog-dandelion, Sunbonnets
Look for it in savannas, sandhill seeps, pine flatwoods
Common (endemic to the Southeastern Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Stokes Aster, Stokesia, Blue Stokesia
Look for it - it's native in pitcherplant bogs & moist pinelands of FL-GA-SC, rather frequently grown as a garden plant & naturalized from cultivation at least in NC
Rare in Coastal Plain, a waif elsewhere (an endemic)
Native in pitcherpant bogs & moist pinelands of SC & GA, naturalized in NC
Look for it on roadsides, disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: Europe
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Look for it roadsides, disturbed areas
Rare in NC (increasing rapidly in VA)
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Tyrol Knapweed, Short-fringed Knapweed
Look for it roadsides, disturbed areas
Rare in NC (increasing rapidly in VA)
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Robin's Plantain
Look for it on moist slopes, in coves, limestone bluffs, trail margins, roadbanks
Common (uncommon in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Daisy Fleabane, Philadelphia Fleabane, Philadelphia-daisy, Common Fleabane
Look for it on roadsides, in meadows, disturbed areas
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Fleabane, Oakleaf Fleabane
Look for it on sandy roadsides, disturbed areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Daisy Fleabane, Annual Fleabane
Look for it on roadsides, in disturbed areas, gardens
Common (uncommon in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Daisy Fleabane, Common Rough Fleabane, Prairie Fleabane, Slender Daisy Fleabane
Look for it on roadsides, in disturbed areas, open woodlands
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Whitetop Fleabane, Savanna Daisy Fleabane, Early Whitetop Fleabane
Look for it in wet savannas, seepages, interdunal swales
Common in Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon (rare in NC Piedmont)
Non-native: South America, apparently
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Common Name:
Common Horseweed
Look for it in old fields, disturbed areas, roadsides, gardens
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Horseweed
Look for it on dunes, brackish marsh edges, coastal sand flats, sand prairies, old fields, disturbed areas, barrens and glades
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Carolina Doll's Daisy, Boltonia
Look for it in bottomlands, ditches, roadsides, prairies
Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Doll's Daisy, Boltonia, Smallhead Doll's-daisy
Look for it in clay-based Carolina bays, roadsides, powerline rights-of-way, & other artificially open areas
Uncommon (rare in NC-SC)
Native to the Coastal Plain of South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Eastern Doll's Daisy, White Doll's Daisy, False Aster, Boltonia
Look for it in marshes, ditches
Common (uncommon in GA, rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Eastern Western-daisy, Entireleaf Western-daisy
Look for it in limestone glades
Rare in GA
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Toothed Whitetop Aster
Look for it in dry woodlands, thin soils around rock outcrops, sandhills, dry pinelands
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Narrowleaf Whitetop Aster, Slender Whitetop Aster
Look for it in dry woodlands, sandhills
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Twisted-leaf Whitetop Aster, Dixie Whitetop Aster
Look for it in dry to mesic sandhills
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Piedmont Aster, Bouquet Aster
Look for it in nutrient-rich bottomlands and moist slopes in the lower Piedmont
Rare
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Large-leaf Aster, Bigleaf Aster
Look for it in moist to dryish forests, in NC mostly at moderate to high elevations, particularly in red oak forests on ridgetops
Common in NC Mountains, uncommon elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in mesic forests and seepage slopes
Uncommon
Native to e. Tennessee & north of the Carolinas
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Common Name:
White Wood-aster, Woodland Aster, Common White Heart-leaved Aster
Look for it in moist to fairly dry forests & woodlands
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Blue Ridge White Heart-leaved Aster, Mountain Wood-aster
Look for it in northern hardwood forests, spruce-fir forests
Common in NC Mountains, rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Heartleaf Aster, Common Blue Wood Aster
Look for it in rich forests, shaded roadbanks
Common (rare to uncommon in Piedmont & Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Smooth Heartleaf Aster, Lowrie's Blue Wood Aster, Lowrie's Aster
Look for it in mesic to dry-mesic forests
Rare in GA & NC
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
White Arrowleaf Aster, Arrowleaf Blue Wood Aster
Common (rare outside of Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Short's Aster, Midwestern Blue Heart-leaved Aster
Look for it on dry, rocky slopes
Rare in GA (historic in NC)
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Wavyleaf Aster
Look for it in dry forests, woodlands, glades roadbanks
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Late Purple Aster, Common Clasping Aster, Late Blue Aster, Skydrop Aster
Look for it in dry woodlands, roadsides, woodland edges, clearings, roadbanks
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Georgia Aster
Look for it in dry, rocky woodlands, woodland borders, roadbanks, powerline rights-of-way, primarily in places that formerly would have burned and likely been post oak or blackjack oak woodlands or savannas, also in thin soils around granitic flatrocks
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in mesic, nutrient-rich mixed hardwood forests
Uncommon (rare in GA)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Whorled Wood Aster, Floral Wood Aster, Whorled Aster, Whorled Nodding-aster
Look for it in spruce-fir forests, northern hardwood forests, mountain seepages and streambanks, other cool, moist situations
Common in NC Mountains, uncommon elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Look for it in pine barrens, dry road banks
Rare
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Creeping Aster
Look for it on rock outcrops, in glades, rocky woodlands
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in circumneutral to calcareous wet meadows, possibly stream banks
Rare
Native north of the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Savannah Grass-leaved Aster, Southern Swamp Aster
Look for it in wet savannas, sandhill/pocosin ecotones
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Alexander's Rock Aster
Look for it in shallow soils on granitic flatrocks and granitic domes where moist from seasonal seepage
Rare (endemic to the upper Piedmont)
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Eryngo-leaved Aster, Thistleleaf Aster
Look for it in wet pine savannas and pineland bogs
Rare
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Slender Aster
Look for it in pine savannas
Uncommon (rare in Piedmont) (rare in GA)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Eastern Aromatic Aster, Shale-barren Aster
Look for it in rock outcrops & dry woodlands over limestone, calcareous shale
Rare in NC
Native to North Carolina
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