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Your search found 10 taxa in the family Portulacaceae, Purslane family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Spring-beauty
Look for it in moist forests
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Carolina Spring-beauty
Look for it in moist forests, esp northern hardwood forests & cove forests at moderate to high elevations
Common in NC, rare in GA
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Appalachian Fameflower, Appalachian Rock-pink, Rock Portulaca, Quill Fameflower
Look for it in shallow soil over felsic or mafic rocks (granite, gneiss, schist, diabase, greenstone, metabasalt, sandstone, Altamaha grit), esp where periodically wet by seepage (often in mats of the moss Grimmia)
Common (rare in GA Coastal Plain & GA Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Panicled Fameflower, Jewels-of-Opar
Look for it - it's fairly commonly cultivated, locally escaped to disturbed areas & garden edges
Rare
Non-native: West Indies
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Common Name:
Menges' Fameflower, Large-flowered Fameflower, Menges' Rock-pink, Large-flowered Rock-pink
Look for it in shallow soil over felsic rocks (granite) or sandstone (in GA), or Altamaha Grit (GA), where periodically wet by seepage
Uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Coastal Plain (rare in SC)
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Piedmont Rock-pink, Piedmont Fameflower
Look for it in periodic seepage on mafic or ultramafic rocks
Rare
Native to North Carolina
Look for it in thin soils on granitic and diabase flatrocks, sometimes locally spreading to adjacent fields, mowed areas, or other disturbed aeas
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Hairy Purslane, Kiss-me-quick, Pink Purslane
Look for it in disturbed sandy soils
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Common Purslane, Garden Purslane, Pussley
Look for it in gardens, disturbed areas, cracks in sidewalks
Common
Non-native: Asia (apparently)
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Common Name:
Broadleaf Pink Purslane, Paraguayan Purslane
Look for it in sandy fields and other dry, sandy, disturbed habitats
Rare
Non-native: South America
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