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Your search found 163 taxa.
Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.
Look for it in brackish marshes and marsh edges, normally on the back side of barrier islands
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it on dunes, upper beach, island-end flats
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in fields, disturbed places
Rare, probably introduced to parts of our area from by Native Americans
Native to Georgia
Look for it in floodplains, moist pastures, disturbed ground
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in roadsides, gardens, disturbed soils, thin soils on rock outcrops
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in wet savannas, esp over coquina limestone ("marl")
Common in GA (rare in NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in bottomlands, bay forests, moist or wet forests
Uncommon
Native to Georgia
Look for it in mesic forests, woodland edges, clearings
Common (uncommon in SC Coastal Plain, rare in GA Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in cove forests, other mesic forests
Common
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
Look for it in calcareous swamps, calcareous hydric hammocks
Rare
Native to Georgia
Look for it in disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: Old World tropics
Look for it on roadsides, in fields, disturbed areas
Uncommon
Non-native: Eurasia
Look for it in high elevation forests and openings, primarily in spruce-fir forests, but extending in places downslope into northern hardwood forests
Rare, endemic to the Great Smoky Mtns in NC-TN
Native to North Carolina
Look for it in disturbed soil in nearly all habitats except the extremely xeric, present in most parts of the modern (beat-up) landscape at least as seedlings, liable to turn up at the smallest disturbance (such as small tree-fall tip-up mounds or campfires, even in large natural areas), most abundant in areas extensively disturbed or scarified by timber-harvest, bulldozing, or severe fire
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it on roadsides, disturbed areas
Common (rare in GA Mountains)
Non-native: Mediterranean Europe
Look for it on roadsides, disturbed areas
Common (rare in GA & SC)
Non-native: Europe
Look for it in fields, roadsides, disturbed areas
Uncommon in Coastal Plain of GA-NC-SC, uncommon in SC Piedmont, rare elsewhere
Non-native: Mediterranean Europe
Look for it in disturbed areas
Non-native: Eurasia
Look for it on roadsides, in disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: Europe
Look for it in waste areas near wool-combing mill, roadsides, disturbed areas
Non-native: Mediterranean Europe
Look for it on roadsides, in disturbed areas
Rare in NC
Non-native: Europe
Look for it in meadows, pastures, & disturbed areas
Common
Non-native: Europe
Look for it in wet pine savannas, bogs
Rare in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it on roadsides, woodlands, pine savannas
Common (rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in pastures, woodlands, thickets
Common (rare in Piedmont south of VA, rare in SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in pastures, woodlands, thickets
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in moist to fairly dry pine savannas, bogs
Uncommon in Coastal Plain of NC-SC, rare elsewhere
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in prairies, open woodlands over mafic, ultramafic, or calcareous rocks
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in pine savannas, roadsides, pastures
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in sandhills, other dry sandy habitats
Common in NC-SC Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in swamps, wet thickets, woodlands, seepage slopes, wet prairies, meadows
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain) (rare in GA)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in pastures, thickets and woodlands, perhaps esp over mafic rocks
Uncommon (rare in SC)
Native to the Carolinas
Look for it in pastures, disturbed areas
Uncommon (rare in NC Coastal Plain)
Non-native: Europe
Look for it in fields, roadsides, disturbed areas
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain) (rare in NC)
Non-native: Eurasia
Look for it in disturbed areas, pastures
Rare in NC-SC
Non-native: Eurasia
Look for it in disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: Mediterranean Europe
Look for it in fields and roadsides
Rare
Non-native: Eurasia
Look for it in pastures, barnyards, roadsides, other disturbed areas
Common (uncommon in Piedmont & Coastal Plain)
Non-native: Eurasia
Look for it in sandhills, dry rocky woodlands, bluffs, and barrens
Common in NC-SC (rare in GA) (endemic to GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in sandhills
Common in NC-SC (rare in GA) (endemic to GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in pastures, bottomlands, streamsides
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in pastures, bottomlands, streamsides
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in pastures, bottomlands, streamsides
Common
Native to Georgia, North Carolina, & possibly South Carolina
Look for it in upland deciduous forests and woodlands, woodland borders
Common in Mountains (rare in Piedmont) (endemic)
Native to Georgia
Look for it in gravel bars
Native: Western US
Look for it in mesic to dry forests & woodlands
Common (uncommon in NC Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in woodlands and woodland borders, usually fairly dry
Common (uncommon in GA Mountains, rare in NC-SC Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in woodlands and woodland borders, usually fairly dry
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in shallow water (later sometimes stranded on shore by dropping water levels) of clay-based Carolina bays, natural lake shores, blackwater stream shores and swamps, in seepage wetlands including sea-level fens
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in prairies, roadsides, seepages, bogs, grassy balds
Common (uncommon in SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Native: west of the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in bogs, wet longleaf pine pine savannas, seepages
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont & Mountains) (endemic)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it on outcrops of acidic rocks (sandstone, granite, gneiss)
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in sandhills, pine barrens, other xeric forests and woodlands, fields, roadbanks
Common (uncommon in SC, rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas
Look for it in open woods, roadbanks
Common (rare in GA Mountains), endemic
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it on high elevation rock outcrops, sometimes on ledges of precipitous cliffs, rocky openings in heath balds, shale barrens
Rare (an endemic)
Native to North Carolina
Look for it in sandhills
Common
Native to the Carolinas
Look for it in sandhills
Uncommon (rare in GA & NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in xeric sands of Florida scrub, longleaf pine sandhills, and pine rocklands
Rare
Native to Georgia
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