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Your search found 24 taxa.
Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.
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Look for it in pastures, roadsides, barnyards
Rare
Non-native: Europe
Look for it in pastures, roadsides, barnyards
Uncommon in NC, rare in GA
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Marsh Mallow, Musk Mallow, Rose Mallow
Look for it in pastures, roadsides, barnyards
Rare
Non-native: Europe
Common Name:
Hollyhock
Look for it on roadsides, in dumps (frequently cultivated, less commonly escaped or persistent)
Rare
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Carolina Bristlemallow, Bristly-mallow, Carolina Mallow
Look for it in lawns, roadsides, disturbed areas, pondshores
Common in Coastal Plain, uncommon in Piedmont
Non-native (probably): South America (the original distribution unclear)
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Common Name:
Prickly Fanpetals, Prickly Sida, Prickly Mallow, False-mallow
Look for it in disturbed areas, wet fields
Common
Non-native: Tropics
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Common Name:
Arrowleaf Sida, Diamondleaf Fanpetal, Cuban Jute
Look for it on roadsides, in fields, gardens, disturbed areas
Common (uncommon in Mountains)
Non-native: Old World tropics?
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Common Name:
Coastal Plain Sida, Elliott's Fanpetals
Look for it on stream banks, sandy openings, pineland pond margins, limestone glades and barrens, mesic hammocks
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Velvetleaf, Indian Mallow, Butterprint
Look for it in fields, roadsides, disturbed areas
Common (uncommon in Coastal Plain)
Non-native: south Asia
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Common Name:
Southern Seashore Mallow, Seashore Marshmallow, Virginia Saltmarsh Mallow
Look for it in brackish to freshwater tidal marshes
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Rose-of-Sharon, Althea
Look for it where it is escaped or persistent after cultivation, often spreading by rhizomes
Uncommon
Non-native: east Asia
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Common Name:
Swamp Rosemallow, Eastern Rosemallow, Wild Cotton
Look for it in marshes, swamps, river sandbars
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in marshes, swamps
Rare
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Halberdleaf Rosemallow, Rose Hibiscus, Smooth Rosemallow, Showy Hibiscus
Look for it in freshwater marshes, exposed riverbanks, sandbars
Common in Coastal Plain (uncommon in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Savanna Hibiscus, Comfort-root, Pineland Hibiscus
Look for it in pine savannas, dry sandy or loamy soils of maritime forest edges
Common (rare in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Flower-of-an-hour
Look for it in fields, roadsides, railroad yards, disturbed areas
Rare in GA-NC-SC
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Scarlet Rosemallow, Scarlet Hibiscus, Swamp Mallow
Look for it in marshes, swamp forests, roadside swales, cultivated as an ornamental in yards
Rare
Native to Georgia, presumably introduced in the Carolinas?
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Common Name:
Large-flowered Hibiscus, Swamp Rose Mallow
Look for it in tidal marshes, lakeshores, wet flatwoods & savannas
Rare
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Wax Mallow, Turk's-cap Mallow
Look for it in disturbed areas
Rare, as well as waif(s)
Native: Texas & northern Mexico
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Common Name:
Okra, Gumbo
Look for it in gardens (rarely persistent or self-seeding the year following)
Common (in cultivation), rare (as an escape)
Non-native: Africa
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Common Name:
Wax Mallow
Non-native
Look for it in disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: tropical America
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Common Name:
Palmleaf Poppy-mallow
Look for it in occasionally mowed roadside and adjacent powerline right-of-way, with other species of calcareous prairie habitats
Rare in GA
Native west of GA-NC-SC, plausibly native to GA or perhaps only adventive
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Common Name:
Upland Cotton
Look for it . It is a frequently cultivated crop, especially in sandy soils of the Coastal Plain
Rarely adventive or a waif
Non-native: Central & South America, the West Indies, south Florida
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