OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.

Your search found 2 taxa in the family Cabombaceae, Water-shield family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.

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camera icon Common Name: Fanwort, Carolina Fanwort

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Cabomba caroliniana   FAMILY: Cabombaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cabomba caroliniana   FAMILY: Cabombaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Cabomba caroliniana 075-01-001   FAMILY: Cabombaceae

 

Habitat: Millponds, lakes, slow-moving streams

Uncommon in Coastal Plain, rare in Piedmont

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Water-shield, Purple Wen-dock

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Brasenia schreberi   FAMILY: Cabombaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Brasenia schreberi   FAMILY: Cabombaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Brasenia schreberi 075-02-001   FAMILY: Cabombaceae

 

Habitat: Lakes, ponds, sluggish streams, floodplain oxbow ponds, beaver ponds

Common in Coastal Plain, uncommon in SC Piedmont (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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"The following chronological synopsis of flora accounts of Microstegium is instructive: not treated by Small (1933), 'local' (Fernald 1950), 'rarely introduced and possibly not established' (Gleason & Cronquist 1952), 'sporadically naturalized' (Godfrey & Wooten 1979), 'a rapidly spreading pernicious invader on moist ground, too common' (Wofford 1989)... This species has become a very serious pest, now ranking as one of the most destructive introduced plants in our area, forming extensive and dense patches, sprawling over and eliminating nearly all other herbaceous plants. Eradication is very difficult, and considering its obvious colonizing abilities, only temporary." — Alan S. Weakley in Flora of the Southeastern US (2023)