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Your search found 5 taxa.
Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Oconee Bells, Southern Shortia
Look for it on moist slopes, creekbanks, and rock outcrops in humid escarpment gorges with high rainfall, generally in deep shade under Rhododendron maximum & R. minus. This species occurs in Transylvania & Jackson counties, NC, Oconee & Pickens counties, SC, and Rabun County, GA, where it occurs in the remarkable escarpment gorges region, at elevations from 200-650m (formerly at lower elevations, now submerged under Lake Jocassee). Most of the population of this species was destroyed in the 1960's by the construction of Lake Jocassee
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it on moist slopes, creekbanks, and rock outcrops in humid escarpment gorges with high rainfall, generally in deep shade under Rhododendron maximum, at elevations of 350-550m. This species is known only from McDowell County, NC, where it occurs on several tributaries of the Catawba River and North Fork Catawba River. ... This area is disjunct about 100 kilometers to the northeast along the Blue Ridge Escarpment from the range of S. galacifolia
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Flowering Pyxie-moss, Big Pyxie
Look for it in pine savannas, pine flatwoods, pocosin margins, edges of sandhill seepage bogs, primarily in mesic to hydric sites, in wet sands and peaty sands, occasionally extending to submesic sands, but generally with a permanently or occasionally high water table, often with Sphagnum
Common in NC Coastal Plain, rare in SC
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Sandhills Pyxie-moss, Wells' Pyxie-moss, Little Pyxie
Look for it on xeric sandhills, generally over deep sand or sand-clay mixtures near the summits or on the upper slopes of sandhills, restricted to the Sandhills region
Rare, endemic to 6 counties of the NC-SC Sandhills
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Galax, Beetleweed
Look for it in mountain forests, rock outcrops, nearly ubiquitous in the Mountains, more restricted in habitat elsewhere, moist to dry slopes in Piedmont & Coastal Plain, often associated with Kalmia latifolia or Rhododendron maximum
Common (uncommon in Carolina Coastal Plain) (rare in GA Coastal Plain) endemic
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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