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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
River Cane, Giant Cane
Look for it in bottomland and riparian forests, lower slopes and bluffs along streams, seeps, stream banks, and extending into less mesic and even dry settings on circumneutral or alkaline soils over limestone or dolomite
Common (uncommon in Carolina Piedmont, rare in Carolina Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Black Willow
Look for it on riverbanks, sandbars, other moist areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Tag Alder, Hazel Alder, Smooth Alder
Look for it in streambanks, bogs, wet thickets
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Georgia Hackberry, Dwarf Hackberry
Look for it in xeric to mesic glades, outcrops, barrens, woodlands, exposed bluffs, stream banks, and disturbed areas, often over calcareous substrate
Common (uncommon in Mountains & Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Paper Mulberry
Look for it in urban lots, disturbed areas, roadsides
Common
Non-native: east Asia
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Common Name:
Leatherleaf Mahonia, Chinese Mahonia, Holly-grape
Look for it in deciduous forests in suburban areas, spread from plantings
Uncommon in Piedmont (rare elesewhere), but naturalizing widely in the Southeast
Non-native: China
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Common Name:
Nandina, Heavenly-bamboo, Sacred-bamboo
Look for it in forests and woodlands in suburban areas, commonly planted, increasingly escaping and naturalizing
Uncommon (rare in Mountains)
Non-native: China
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Virginia Sweetspire, Virginia-willow
Look for it in moist forests & thickets, esp along the banks of small streams
Common (uncommon in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Appalachian Mock-orange, Scentless Mock-orange
Look for it in rich forests & woodlands, rocky bluffs over mafic or calcareous rocks, & also cultivated & persistent
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
American Witch-hazel, Northern Witch-hazel
Look for it in moist to dryish forests
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
European Blackberry, Himalayan Blackberry, Himalaya-berry
Look for it in disturbed areas, roadsides, thickets, old fields
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain) (rare in GA) (rare in NC Mtns)
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Pennsylvania Blackberry, Highbush Blackberry, Southern Blackberry
Look for it on roadsides, in thickets, woodlands
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Dewberry, Coastal Plain Dewberry
Look for it on roadsides, in old fields, thickets, disturbed areas
Common (rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Multiflora Rose
Look for it in pastures, thickets, bottomlands, upland forests, bogs
Common
Non-native: Asia
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Common Name:
Swamp Rose
Look for it in swamp forests, bogs, streamsides
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Flowering Ninebark, Eastern Ninebark
Look for it on streambanks, riverside thickets, rock outcrops, cliffs, esp over mafic or calcareous rocks
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Taiwanese Redtip
Look for it in suburban woodlands
Uncommonly cultivated and rarely naturalizing
Non-native: east Asia
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Common Name:
Dwarf Hawthorn, Neat Hawthorn
Look for it in longleaf pine sandhills, other xeric or subxeric forests, scrublands, disturbed woodlands
Uncommon (rare in Mountains, rare in NC) (endemic)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Downy Serviceberry, Sarvisberry
Look for it in dry to moist forests
Common (uncommon in NC & SC Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Bicolor Lespedeza, Bicolor, Shrubby Lespedeza
Look for it in "wildlife food plots," roadsides, forests
Common
Non-native: east Asia
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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:
Winged Sumac, Shining Sumac, Dwarf Sumac
Look for it in dry woodlands, and also (depending on variety) in sandhills or rocky glades or maritime thickets
Common (var. copallinum) or uncommon (var. latifolia)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Smooth Sumac, Common Sumac
Look for it in disturbed areas, clearings, roadsides, woodlands
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Chinese Holly, Burford Holly
Look for it in forests in suburban areas, into which it has escaped from suburban plantings
Rare
Non-native: China
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Common Name:
Hearts-a-bustin', Strawberry-bush
Look for it in mesic to submesic forests
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Winged Burning Bush, Winged Euonymus, Winged Wahoo
Look for it in suburban woodlands
Rare in GA, NC, SC
Non-native: east Asia
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Common Name:
New Jersey Tea, Redroot
Look for it in dry woodlands, woodland borders (& other places, depending on variety)
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
St. Andrew's Cross
Look for it in dry forests & woodlands
Common (uncommon in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Thorny Olive, Autumn Siverberry, Silverthorn, Thorny Elaeagnus
Look for it in forests and woodlands in suburban areas
Uncommon
Non-native: Japan
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Common Name:
Devil's Walkingstick, Hercules-club, Prickly Aralia, Prickly-ash
Look for it in disturbed pocosins & bottomlands, disturbed areas, moist to dry forests & woodlands
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Silky Dogwood, Bush Dogwood, Silky Cornel
Look for it along shores, streams, bottomlands
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Swamp Dogwood
Look for it in swamps, streambanks, marshes, alluvial forests
Common (rare in Mountains) (an endemic)
Native to the Carolinas & 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:
Japanese Privet
Look for it in disturbed places
Rare
Non-native: Japan & Korea
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Common Name:
Chinese Privet
Look for it in moist forests, esp alluvial bottomlands
Common
Non-native: China
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Common Name:
Glossy Privet, Broadleaf Privet
Look for it in disturbed places
Rare
Non-native: China, Japan & Korea
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Common Name:
American Beautyberry, French Mulberry, Beautybush
Look for it in hammocks, other forests (esp with sandy or rocky soils), maritime forests (the main habitat northward), disturbed areas
Common (rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Sweet-breath-of-spring, Winter Honeysuckle
Look for it in forests, woodlands, old house sites
Uncommon
Non-native: China
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Common Name:
Amur Bush-honeysuckle, Amur Honeysuckle
Look for it in suburban woodlands, moist forests, fencerows
Common (uncommon in GA Piedmont, rare in NC-SC)
Non-native: east Asia
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Common Name:
Smooth Arrowwood, Northern Arrowwood
Look for it in marshes, moist forests, streambanks
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Common Elderberry, American Elder
Look for it on streambanks, in thickets, moist forests, disturbed areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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