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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.
Your search found 66 taxa.
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Common Name:
Loblolly Pine, Old Field Pine
Look for it in forests, fields, pine plantations
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Virginia Pine, Scrub Pine, Jersey Pine
Look for it in dry forests & woodlands, esp on slopes & ridges, also common in certain areas as a weedy successional tree on nearly any kind of site
Common (rare in Coastal Plain), endemic to Central & Southern Appalachians
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Eastern Hemlock, Canada Hemlock
Look for it in a wide variety of habitats in the mountains, most typically & abundantly in moist sites in ravines or coves along streams, but likely to be found in all but the driest habitats between 300 & 1500m
Common in Mountains, rare in Piedmont
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Eastern Red Cedar
Look for it in bluffs, glades, upland forests and woodlands, pastures, old fields, roadsides, and fencerows, primarily upland, occurring most abundantly on (but by no means restricted to) circumneutral soils (including shrink-swell clays) derived from mafic or calcareous rocks
Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Golden Bamboo, Fishpole Bamboo
Look for it in suburban woodlands
Common in GA, uncommon in Carolina Piedmont & Coastal Plain, rare Carolina Mtns
Non-native: China & Japan
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Black Willow
Look for it on riverbanks, sandbars, other moist areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Black Walnut
Look for it in moist, nutrient-rich forests of floodplains and slopes, calcareous hammocks
Common (uncommon in NC-SC Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Butternut, White Walnut
Look for it in moist, nutrient-rich forests
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Pecan
Look for it in bottomlands. Eastward it is persistent around dwellings and in pecan orchards, escaped to suburban woodlands, rural forest edges and floodplains
Commonly cultivated
Native: south central US
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Common Name:
Sand Hickory, Pale Hickory
Look for it in dry sandy or rocky forests & woodlands
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Mockernut Hickory, White Hickory
Look for it in forests and woodlands
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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Common Name:
River Birch, Red Birch
Look for it on riverbanks, streambanks, floodplains, sandbars, disturbed uplands
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
American Beech
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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White Oak
Look for it in mesic to xeric forests
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Post Oak
Look for it in upland forests & woodlands, esp in clay or rocky soils and in fire communities
Common (uncommon in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Black Oak
Look for it in upland forests & woodlands, esp in fairly xeric & sandy soils
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Red Oak, Spanish Oak
Look for it in upland forests, usually xeric
Common (uncommon in NC Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Water Oak
Look for it in bottomland forests, esp on levees or second terraces where flooded infrequently and for short periods, less commonly on mesic slopes
Common (uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
American Elm, White Elm
Look for it in swamps, bottomland forests, moist slopes, esp on relatively or strongly nutrient-rich substrates
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Winged Elm
Look for it on rock outcrops, dry and mesic forests and woodlands, bottomlands, old fields, disturbed areas
Common (rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Small's Hackberry
Look for it in glades, woodlands, forests
Common in Piedmont (rare elesewhere), an endemic
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
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:
White Mulberry, Silkworm Mulberry, Russian Mulberry
Look for it in disturbed areas, vacant lots, roadsides, moist forests
Uncommon
Non-native: east Asia
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Red Mulberry
Look for it in bottomland forests, mesic slopes, disturbed areas, suburban woodlands
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Tuliptree, Yellow Poplar, Whitewood
Look for it in mesic forests, cove forests in Mountains to at least 1500m in elevation, bottomland forests & swamps
Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Magnolia, Bull Bay
Look for it in maritime forests, mesic Coastal Plain bluffs & flats, bottomlands, now also widely naturalized, spreading from cultivation into wet to mesic forests
Common (rare in Piedmont, rare in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Sassafras
Look for it in a wide variety of forests, old fields, disturbed areas, fencerows
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Sweetgum
Look for it in swamp forests, floodplains, moist forests, depressional wetlands, old fields, disturbed areas
Common (uncommon in Mountains)
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:
American Sycamore, Planetree
Look for it on riverbanks and in alluvial forests, on streambanks, sometimes weedy on rocky roadcuts
Common (uncommon in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Bradford Pear, Callery Pear
Look for it in fields, roadsides, and disturbed areas
Commonly planted, becoming an agressive naturalizer
Non-native: China
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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:
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:
Peach
Look for it on roadsides, trash-heaps, disturbed thickets
Commonly cultivated, commonly escaped or persistent
Non-native: China
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Common Name:
Black Cherry, Eastern Wild Black Cherry, Bird Cherry
Look for it in rich coves, bottomlands, northern hardwood forests, and in a wide variety of lower elevation habitats from dry to mesic, and weedy in fencerows
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Mimosa, Silktree
Look for it in disturbed areas, suburban woodlots, escaped and persistent in forests and woodlands
Common
Non-native: Tropical Asia
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Common Name:
Eastern Redbud, Judas Tree
Look for it in moist to dry forests and woodlands, esp over calcareous or mafic rocks, also commonly planted as an ornamental
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Honey Locust
Look for it in woodlands, forests (generally bottomlands), fencerows, often planted as a street tree
Common (uncommon in Coastal Plain, rare in GA Coastal Plain & GA Mtns)
Native: west of the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Kentucky Yellowwood, Gopherwood
Look for it in mountain forests, Piedmont bluffs, esp on calcareous or mafic rocks (introduced only in the Piedmont of NC)
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Black Locust
Look for it in forests, woodlands, disturbed areas, roadcuts
Common. Native in s. & c. Appalachians, from PA to GA-AL, now more widespread
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Ailanthus, Tree-of-heaven
Look for it on roadsides, in forests, disturbed areas, including cities, esp in moist, fertile soils. In our area, this tree is now an aggressive and noxious weed, colonizing even undisturbed forests and outcompeting the native vegetation
Common (uncommon in Coastal Plain)
Non-native: east Asia
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Common Name:
Chinaberry, Pride-of-India
Look for it in disturbed areas, abandoned rural yards and fields (commonly cultivated and commonly escaped)
Common (rare in Mountains)
Non-native: southeast Asia
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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:
American Holly, Christmas Holly
Look for it in a wide variety of forests, ranging from xeric to wetland
Common
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:
Box Elder, Ash-leaved Maple
Look for it on riverbanks, in swamps, bottomlands, also upslope on calcareous substrates
Common (uncommon in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Eastern Red Maple
Look for it in upland deciduous forests, up to at least 1500m elevation, moist bottomlands and slopes
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Silver Maple, Soft Maple
Look for it in bottomlands, on riverbanks, and disturbed areas
Uncommon (south of NC, more often an escape from cultivation than a native)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Sugar Maple, Hard Maple, Sugar-tree
Look for it in cove forests, other rich forests, esp over mafic and calcareous rocks, on calcareous soils common and typical in dry-mesic forests and dry woodlands as well, less typically extending to high elevation northern hardwood forests where sometimes in acidic situations
Common (rare in Piedmont south of VA, where perhaps only introduced)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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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:
Blackgum, Black Tupelo, Sour Gum
Look for it in dry or mesic upland forests, less commonly in bottomlands, pine savannas, or upland deressions, where occasionally inundated briefly
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Flowering Dogwood
Look for it in a wide variety of dry to moist forests and woodlands, especially over acidic substrates
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:
Sourwood, Sorrel-tree
Look for it in mesic to xeric deciduous forests, esp dry-mesic to xeric oak-hickory & oak-pine forests, also in sandhill/pocosin ecotones
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
American Persimmon, Common Persimmon, Simmon
Look for it in dry woods, sandhills, disturbed places, floodplain & mesic forests, fencerows
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Common Silverbell
Look for it on moist slopes, in coves, creekbanks, bottomlands
Common (uncommon in GA-SC Coastal Plain, rare in NC Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
White Ash, American Ash
Look for it on mesic slopes, in rich cove forests, dryish calcareous or mafic glades & woodlands (with Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana and Carya glabra)
Common (rare in Coastal Plain of GA, NC, SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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