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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.
Your search found 88 taxa in the family Scrophulariaceae, Figwort family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.
Look for it to be aquatic in oligotrophic lakes, reservoirs, and stormwater retention ponds
Rare
Non-native: Australia
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Common Name:
Princess Tree, Empress Tree, Royal Paulownia
Look for it on roadsides, in disturbed areas, roadcuts, forests
Common (uncommon to rare in Coastal Plain)
Non-native: China
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Common Name:
Pool-sprite, Snorkelwort, Little Amphianthus
Look for it in vernal pools on granitic flatrocks
Rare
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Tropical Water-hyssop
Look for it in freshwater tidal muds, marshes, shallow water
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Blue Water-hyssop, Sweet Water-hyssop, Carolina Water-hyssop, Lemon Bacopa
Look for it on wet shores, tidal muds, marshes
Common in GA-SC Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in our area)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Mecardonia, Common Axilflower
Look for it in marshes, ditches, bottomland forests, wet disturbed areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Shaggy Hedge-hyssop, Pilose Hedge-hyssop
Look for it in marshes, wet areas, wet pine savannas
Common in Coastal Plain, uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Mountains
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Yellow Hedge-hyssop, Golden-pert, Golden Hedge-hyssop
Look for it on blackwater riverbanks, in pond cypress savannas in Carolina bays, other acidic wetlands
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in bogs, marshes, beaver ponds, wet areas, ditches, margins of Coastal Plain ponds
Common (uncommon in Mountains, rare in GA)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Mud-hyssop, Mud Hedge-hyssop, Clammy Hedge-hyssop
Look for it in ditches, wet areas, bottomlands, wet cropped fields, brackish marshes
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Roundfruit Hedge-hyssop, Virginia Hedge-hyssop
Look for it in sluggish streams, bogs, wet areas
Common (uncommon in SC Mountains, rare in NC Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Pineland Hedge-hyssop
Look for it in dry-mesic pine savannas, scrubby pine savannas, longleaf pine sandhills, Florida scrub, grasslands, dunes
Uncommon in GA
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Japanese Mazus
Look for it in lawns, rocky riverbanks
Uncommon
Non-native: east Asia
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Common Name:
Creeping Mazus, Miquel's mazus
Look for it in lawns
Rare
Non-native: east Asia
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Common Name:
Yellowseed False Pimpernel
Look for it in wet sandy or muddy areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Flatrock Pimpernel, Riverbank Pimpernel, False Pimpernel, Piedmont False-pimpernel
Look for it in seasonal seepage on granitic flatrocks, and on river-scoured siliceous rocks
Common in GA Piedmont (uncommon or rare elsewhere)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in shallow pools, stagnant streams, wet depressions in swamp forests
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Allegheny Monkey-flower, Square-stemmed Monkey-flower
Look for it in marshes, bogs, wet meadows, bottomlands
Common (uncommon in GA Piedmont, rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Winged Monkey-flower, Sharpwing Monkey-flower
Look for it in marshes, bottomlands, ditches
Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain, rare in SC Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Moth Mullein
Look for it in fields, roadsides, disturbed areas
Common (uncommon GA Piedmont & Coastal Plain)
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Wand Mullein, Twiggy Mullein, Moth Mullein
Look for it in sandhills, sandy disturbed areas, roadsides
Uncommon in SC, rare in GA & NC
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Woolly Mullein, Common Mullein, Flannel-plant, Velvet-plant
Look for it in fields, roadsides, disturbed areas
Common
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Clasping Mullein, Orange Mullein
Look for it in disturbed areas, roadsides, sandhills
Rare [but expanding its range???]
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Cuthbert’s Turtlehead
Look for it in bogs, sphagnous swamps, seeps
Uncommon in NC-SC Mountains, rare elsewhere
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Mountain Turtlehead, Pink Turtlehead, Appalachian Turtlehead
Look for it in cove forests, spruce-fir forests, balds, streambanks
Uncommon (rare in SC Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Purple Turtlehead
Look for it in streambanks, swamp forests
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
White Turtlehead
Look for it in streambanks, seeps, swamp forests
Common (rare in GA Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Small's Penstemon, Blue Ridge Beardtongue, Small's Beardtongue
Look for it in woodlands, cliffs, glades, roadbanks
Common, endemic to the Southern Appalachians
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Appalachian Beardtongue, Gray's Beardtongue, Eastern Gray Beardtongue
Look for it in woodlands, glades, forest edges, rocky woodlands, roadsides
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Pale Beardtongue, Eastern White Beardtongue
Look for it in limestone and shale barrens, other dry, disturbed areas
Rare
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Downy Beardtongue, Sandhill Beardtongue, Southern Beardtongue, Southeastern Beardtongue
Look for it in sandhills, flatwoods, dry hammocks, dry sandy roadsides
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Foxglove Beardtongue, Tall White Beardtongue
Look for it in alluvial forests, moist fields, disturbed areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Smooth Beardtongue, Eastern Beardtongue, Eastern Smooth Beardtongue
Look for it in low meadows, bottomlands, forest edges, hammocks
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it on limestone ledges, other woodlands
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Georgia Beardtongue, Grit Beardtongue
Look for it in Altamaha Grit outcrops, sandhills
Rare, endemic to Altamaha Grit outcrops and other sandy areas in south Georgia
Native to Georgia
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Look for it in dry woodlands, forests, & fields
Uncommon
Native north of the Carolinas
Look for it in sandhills, dry flatwoods
Uncommon
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Eastern Figwort, Carpenter's Square, Late Figwort
Look for it in moist-to-dry nutrient-rich woodlands and forests, esp over mafic or calcareous rocks
Uncommon in Mountains, rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Hare Figwort, American Figwort, Lancelaf Figwort
Look for it in mesic to dry upland forests, shale barrens, clearings
Rare
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Oldfield Toadflax, Common Toadflax, Canada Toadflax
Look for it in a wide variety of natural and disturbed habitats, esp common and weedy in disturbed sites such as roadsides and fields, also common and apparently native in thin soil of rock outcrops
Common (rare in NC Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Texas Toadflax
Look for it on granite flatrocks, in dry sandy soils, in disturbed soils of roadsides and fields
Uncommon in GA, waifs in NC-SC
Native to south central US, not clear how far east original range extended (GA?)
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Common Name:
Butter-and-eggs, Yellow Toadflax, Wild-snapdragon
Look for it in fields, pastures, roadsides, disturbed areas
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain, rare in GA)
Non-native: Europe
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
purple toadflax
Non-native: Mediterranean
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Common Name:
Culver's-root
Look for it on streambanks, in bogs, wet meadows, dryish soils in areas with prairie affinities
Uncommon (rare in GA Piedmont, rare in SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Thymeleaf Speedwell
Look for it in meadows, lawns, roadsides, other disturbed areas
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Purslane Speedwell, Neckweed
Look for it in fields, roadsides, disturbed areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Corn Speedwell, Wall Speedwell
Look for it in fields, roadsides, disturbed areas
Common
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Ivyleaf Speedwell
Look for it in lawns, fields, disturbed areas
Common (rare in Coastal Plain) (rare in GA Mountains)
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Bird's-eye Speedwell
Look for it in lawns, fields, roadsides, disturbed areas
Common (rare in SC Coastal Plain)
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Water Speedwell, Brook Pimpernel
Look for it in bogs, marshes, streamsides, ditches
Rare in NC
Native to North Carolina?
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Look for it in bogs, marshes, streamsides
Rare in NC
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Common Speedwell, Gypsyweed, Heath Speedwell
Look for it in fields and forests
Common
Native & non-native?
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Look for it in gollf courses and lawns
Rare
Non-native: Eurasia
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Look for it in marshes, swamps
Rare
Native: north of the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name:
Garden Speedwell, Longleaf Speedwell
Look for it in disturbed areas
Non-native: Europe
Look for it in wet places
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
American Bluehearts, Prairie Bluehearts, Plains Bluehearts
Look for it in dry (seasonally moist) rocky, gravelly, or clayey soil of limestone glades, galdes over mafic rock (such as diabase, gabbro, etc.), wet meadows, sandy roadsides
Rare
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Savanna Bluehearts, Florida Bluehearts, Buchnera
Look for it in pine savannas, flatwoods, seepage bogs, sandy roadsides
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Asiatic Witchweed
Look for it in cultivated fields, parasitic on the roots of corn & other grasses
Rare. A serious weed, targeted for eradication since it arrived here in the 50s.
Non-native: Old World
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