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Your search found 7 taxa in the family Rutaceae, Rue family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Northern Toothache Tree, Northern Prickly-ash
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Zanthoxylum americanum FAMILY: Rutaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Zanthoxylum americanum FAMILY: Rutaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Zanthoxylum americana 103-01-001 FAMILY: Rutaceae
Habitat: Woodlands, forests, and glade margins over calcareous or mafic rocks, often forming extensive colonies near outcrops
Rare, only a single known site in SC
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Toothache Tree, Hercules-club, Sea-ash, Southern Prickly-ash
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Zanthoxylum clava-herculis FAMILY: Rutaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Zanthoxylum clava-herculis FAMILY: Rutaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Zanthoxylum clava-herculis 103-01-002 FAMILY: Rutaceae
Habitat: Maritime forests, dunes, shell middens, shell hammocks, maritime scrub, inland (in FL and GA) in hammocks
Common in GA Coastal Plain (uncommon in Carolinas)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Wild Lime, Lime Prickly-ash, Colima, Satinwood
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Zanthoxylum fagara FAMILY: Rutaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Zanthoxylum fagara FAMILY: Rutaceae
Habitat: Coastal hammocks, inland hammocks with (usually) calcareous influence
Native: Florida
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Common Name:
Wafer-ash, Hoptree
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Ptelea trifoliata FAMILY: Rutaceae
(?) PLANTS National Database: Ptelea trifoliata + FAMILY: Rutaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Ptelea trifoliata 103-02-001 FAMILY: Rutaceae
Look for it on rocky bluffs, esp calcareous or mafic, open woodlands, calcareous Coastal Plain river bluffs, granitic domes
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Trifoliate Orange, Hardy Orange
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Citrus trifoliata FAMILY: Rutaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Poncirus trifoliata FAMILY: Rutaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Poncirus trifoliata 103-03-001 FAMILY: Rutaceae
Habitat: Bottomland and riparian forests, mesic upland forests, stream banks, spring runs, fencerows, roadsides, becoming common especially in suburban areas
Uncommon (rare in GA & NC Mountains) (rare in Carolina Coastal Plain)
Non-native: China
Common Name: Sour Orange, Marmalade Orange, Sweet Orange, Bitter Orange
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Citrus ×aurantium FAMILY: Rutaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Citrus ×aurantium [maxima × reticulata] FAMILY: Rutaceae
Habitat: Cultivated horticulturally, sometimes persistent and naturalizing
Rare
Non-native: southeast Asia
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Common Name:
Amur Cork-tree, Northern Cork-tree, Japanese Cork-tree
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Phellodendron amurense FAMILY: Rutaceae
INCLUDING PLANTS National Database: Phellodendron japonicum FAMILY: Rutaceae
Habitat: Suburban woodlands
Non-native: Japan, Taiwan, Korea, ne. China, and e. Russia
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