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Your search found 48 taxa.
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Common Name:
Japanese Climbing Fern
Look for it in disturbed areas, the leaves (up to 30 m in length!) climbing into the canopy of trees in swamp forests and other wet habitats
Rare outside of Coastal Plain & north of SC
Non-native: east Asia
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Common Name:
Common Greenbrier, Common Catbrier, Bullbrier, Horsebrier
Look for it in dry-mesic to mesic forests and woodlands, bottomland and riparian forests, swamps, pond margins, bluffs, flatwoods, prairies, old fields, fencerows, pastures, roadsides.
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Stretchberry, Fringed Greenbrier, Catbrier, Tramp's Trouble
Look for it in dry to mesic forests and woodlands, bottomland and riparian forests, bluffs, hardwood flatwoods, pine flatwoods, prairies, old fields, fencerows, pastures, roadsides (of various habitats, including wetlands)
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Whiteleaf Greenbrier, Wild Sarsaparilla, Sawbrier
Look for it in dry to mesic forests and woodlands, bottomland and riparian forests, bluffs, hardwood flatwoods, pine flatwoods, prairies, old fields, fencerows, pastures, roadsides; uncommon in wetlands
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Coral Greenbrier, Red-berried Swamp Smilax
Look for it in swamp forests, bogs, woodland seeps, often where submersed for at least part of the year
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Bamboo-vine, Blaspheme-vine, Wild Bamboo, Laurel-leaf Greenbriar
Look for it in pocosins, swamp forests, wooded seeps and bogs, swamps, and other wetlands, often with groundwater influence
Common in Coastal Plain (rare Piedmont & Mtns), primarily endemic to Southeastern Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Cinnamon Vine, Chinese Yam
Look for it in thickets, disturbed areas, bottomland forests
Common in Mountains & Carolina Piedmont, uncommon elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Non-native: China
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Common Name:
Japanese Hops
Look for it disturbed areas, particularly in rich, alluvial soils, where it has become a serious weed along major VA rivers
Common (rare in Carolinas & Georgia)
Non-native: Japan, Taiwan, & China
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Common Name:
Common Climbing Buckwheat
Look for it in moist to wet open habitats
Common in Mountains, uncommon elsewhere
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Sweet Autumn Clematis, Yam-leaved Clematis, Sweet Autumn Virgin's Bower
Look for it in disturbed areas
Uncommon
Non-native: east Asia
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Common Name:
Virgin's Bower
Look for it in moist forests, thickets, & openings
Common (rare in Coastal Plain south of VA)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Five-leaf Akebia, Chocolate-vine
Look for it on roadbanks, in suburban woodlands, and floodplains, where it has escaped from cultivation
Rare now, likely to be a serious invasive in the Southeast over the next decade
Non-native: Japan, China & Korea
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Common Name:
Carolina Moonseed, Coralbeads, Carolina Snailseed, Red Moonseed
Look for it in moist to dry forests & thickets, especially where calcareous, also weedy in landscaping
Common (uncommon in NC Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Climbing Hydrangea, Woodvamp, Decumaria
Look for it in swamp forests and bottomlands, moist forests in the mountains
Common (rare in Mountains) (an endemic)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Chinese Wisteria
Look for it in urban, suburban, and rural forests and woodlands
Commonly cultivated and escaped (rare in Piedmont)
Non-native: China
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Common Name:
American Groundnut
Look for it in marshes, wet thickets, streambanks, bottomland forests
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Climbing Butterfly-pea, Spurred Butterfly-pea
Look for it in dry woodlands & openings
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Butterfly-pea
Look for it in dry woodlands & openings, roadsides
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Annual Sand Bean, Beach Pea, Trailing Wild Bean, Trailing Fuzzy-Bean
Look for it on coastal dunes, beaches, dry sandy woodlands, disturbed areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Kudzu, Foot-a-Day
Look for it on roadsides, in waste areas
Common
Non-native: east Asia
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Common Name:
American Hog-peanut
Look for it in dry to moist forests, thickets
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Eastern Poison Ivy
Look for it in a wide range of habitats, including mesic forests, rock outcrops, swamp forests, brackish marshes, open areas, disturbed ground, usually in more mesic to hydric sites than T. pubescens, & particularly common in areas with fertile soils, such as bottomlands or over calcareous rocks or calcareous sands (as in maritime forests)
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Wintercreeper, Climbing Euonymus, Chinese Spindle-tree
Look for it in bottomlands or swamps, upland suburban woodlands. Sometimes climbing into the canopy
Rare
Non-native: China
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Common Name:
Virginia Creeper
Look for it in swamp forests, bottomlands, maritime forests and thickets, rock outcrops, mesic forests
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Muscadine, Scuppernong
Look for it in dry upland forests (especially sandy or rocky), other forests, swamps, dunes, roadsides, thickets
Common (uncommon in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Fox Grape
Look for it in forests and woodlands, wet, moist, and dry
Common (uncommon in GA Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Frost Grape, Winter Grape, Chicken Grape
Look for it in forests and woodlands, primarily upland, but also in bottomlands
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Possum Grape
Look for it in forests and woodlands, mostly bottomlands
Common (rare in Coastal Plain, uncommon in GA Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Summer Grape
Look for it in forests & woodlands, mostly upland
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Peppervine
Look for it in swamp forests, marshes, wet thickets, moist to wet maritime forests
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont & Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Porcelain-berry, Amur Peppervine
Look for it on riverbanks, in thickets and disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: northeast Asia
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Common Name:
Passionflower, Maypop
Look for it on roadsides, in fencerows, thickets, fields
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Yellow Passionflower
Look for it in woodlands, forests, thickets, maritime forests
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
English Ivy, Common Ivy
Look for it to be persistent, established, and spreading around old home sites, in suburban woodlands and waste areas
Uncommon
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Carolina Jessamine, Yellow Jessamine
Look for it in a wide range of habitats, from swamp forests to dry uplands & thickets, also commonly planted as an oramental
Common (uncommon in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Common Periwinkle
Look for it in disturbed areas, around old house sites and esp old cemeteries
Common (persistent and spreading from cultivation)
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Compact Dodder
Look for it in wet habitats, on herbaceous and esp on woody hosts
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Common Dodder
Look for it on a very wide variety of herbaceous and woody plants
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Twin-flowered Bindweed, Twoflower Bindweed, Shortstalk False Bindweed
Look for it in thickets, on roadsides, in fields, on streambanks, in disturbed areas
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Common Morning Glory
Look for it in fields, disturbed areas
Common
Non-native: Tropical America
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Common Name:
Small White Morning Glory, Small-flowered Morning Glory, Whitestar
Look for it on riverbanks, in fields, roadsides, disturbed areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Manroot, Wild Potato Vine, Man-of-the-earth, Wild Sweet Potato
Look for it in disturbed areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Crossvine
Look for it in swamp forests, bottomlands, forests, woodlands; also often occurs in mesic or even dry forests, where it generally remains stunted (most individuals with only a few leaves) and does not flower or fruit
Common (rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Trumpetcreeper, Trumpet Vine, Cow-Itch Vine
Look for it in bottomland forests, swamp forests, fencerows, old fields, forests, thickets, disturbed areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Japanese Honeysuckle
Look for it - it's nearly ubiquitous, esp common in Piedmont & Coastal Plain and in mesic habitats
Common
Non-native: east Asia
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Common Name:
Coral Honeysuckle, Woodbine, Trumpet Honeysuckle
Look for it in dry forests & woodlands, maritime forests
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Bur Cucumber, Star Cucumber, Nimble-Kate
Look for it in moist forests and thickets
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Climbing Hempweed
Look for it in marshes, swamp forests, wet thickets, seepages
Common (rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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