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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.
Your search found 22 taxa.
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Common Name:
Rosebay Rhododendron, Great Laurel, White Rosebay, Great Rhododendron
Look for it on moist slopes, in wet flats, bogs, swamps, north-facing bluffs in Piedmont
Common (uncommon in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Catawba Rhododendron, Mountain Rosebay, Purple Laurel, Pink Laurel
Look for it on rocky summits, shrub balds, acid ridges & slopes (mostly at high elevations), north-facing bluffs in Piedmont
Common in Mtns, rare in Piedmont, rare in SC, endemic to Southern Appalachians
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Gorge Rhododendron, Punctatum, Piedmont Rhododendron
Look for it on rocky slopes, in escarpment gorges, rocky areas in the Piedmont, sandhill bluffs in the Coastal Plain
Common in Mountains (rare in Piedmont & Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Carolina Rhododendron, Punctatum
Look for it on rocky summits, heath balds, high elevation forests, moist slopes
Uncommon, endemic to the Southern Appalachians
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Pinkshell Azalea
Look for it on moist slopes, bogs, high elevation rocky summits, cliffs, high elevation heath balds
Rare, endemic to the NC mountains
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Flame Azalea
Look for it in deciduous forests, particularly on mountain slopes, grassy balds
Common in Mountains, rare in Piedmont
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Oconee Azalea
Look for it in longleaf pine sandhills, upland forests on slopes, ridges, stream bluffs
Rare
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Plumleaf Azalea
Look for it in mesic ravine forests and streambanks
Rare, endemic to a small area along AL-GA border
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Cumberland Azalea, Baker's Azalea
Look for it on balds and exposed or moist slopes
Rare, endemic to the Southern Appalachians, primarily west of the Blue Ridge
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Piedmont Azalea, Southern Pinxterbloom Azalea, Hoary Azalea
Look for it in swamps, pocosins, & savannas
Common in GA-SC Coastal Plain, uncommon in GA-SC Piedmont, rare in NC-SC Mtns
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Florida Flame Azalea, Yellow Azalea
Look for it in hammocks, bluffs, floodplain forests
Rare
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Election Pink, Roseshell Azalea, Early Azalea
Look for it in upland forests (esp under Quercus montana & Quercus rubra), xeric pine & oak woodlands
Rare
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
May White Azalea, Eastman's Azalea
Look for it on rich slopes
Rare (though locally common), endemic to the SC Piedmont
Native to South Carolina
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Common Name:
Red Hills Azalea, May-pink Azalea
Look for it in moist hammocks, moist bluffs, along streams
Uncommon
Native to Georgia
Common Name:
Alabama Azalea
Look for it on moist slopes, bluffs, streambanks
Uncommon in Coastal Plain, rare elsewhere in GA
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Pinxterflower, Pinxterbloom Azalea, Election Pink, Pinxter Azalea
Look for it on moist to dry slopes and streambanks
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Dwarf Azalea, Coastal Azalea
Look for it in pocosins, savannas, pine flatwoods, sandhill-pocosin ecotones
Common in NC-SC, uncommon in GA, endemic to the Atlantic Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Swamp Azalea, Clammy Azalea, Swamp Honeysuckle, Catchfly Azalea
Look for it on moist streambanks, shrub balds, and other moist habitats
Common in Piedmont & NC-SC Mountains (uncommon to rare elesewhere)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in moderate to high elevation sites, in dry to seasonally seepy sites
Rare (an endemic)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Swamp Azalea, Clammy Azalea, Sweet Azalea
Look for it in bogs, pocosins, wet pine savannas
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Sweet Azalea, Smooth Azalea
Look for it on rocky riversides, wooded streambanks, swamps, high elevation forests, shrub balds
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Minniebush
Look for it on heath balds, bogs, rocky summits, & rocky woodlands, mostly at high elevations
Uncommon in NC Mtns, rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC (endemic to S & C Appalachians)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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