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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.
Your search found 13 taxa in the family Alliaceae, Onion family, as understood by Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Spring Starflower, Spring Star, Star of Bethlehem
Look for it in lawns, suburban woodlands, bottomlands, disturbed places
Rare, commonly cultivated and escaping
Non-native: South America
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Common Name:
Field Garlic, Wild Onion, Crow Garlic, Onion Grass
Look for it in lawns, pastures, other disturbed places
Common
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Wild Onion, Meadow Garlic
Look for it in bottomland forests, pastures, on roadsides
Common (uncommon in Mountains of GA-NC-SC & Coastal Plain of GA)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Mobile Onion
Look for it in dry woodlands, prairies
Uncommon in GA, rare in NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in sandhills, granite domes and flatrocks
Uncommon to rare (an endemic)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Keever’s Onion, Brushy Mountain Onion
Look for it in thin soils around rock outcrops, receiving nutrient-rich seepage and occurring with many strict calciphiles (endemic to the Brushy Mountains of Alexander and Wilkes counties, NC)
Rare, endemic to two NC counties
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Flatrock Onion
Look for it in seepy edges of vegetation mats on Lithonia granitic gneiss (and on sandstone in northeast AL)
Rare (an endemic)
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Wild Leek, Yorktown Onion
Look for it on roadsides and other disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Nodding Onion, Nodding Wild Onion
Look for it generally in open woodlands or around outcrops of shale, mafic, ultramafic, or calcareous rocks, in the mountains at low elevations
Uncommon (rare in SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Glade Onion, Prairie Onion
Look for it in limestone glades, calcareous prairies, calcareous barrens
Rare
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Ramps, Red Ramps, Rampscallions, Wild Leek
Look for it in cove forests and mesic slope forests
Common in NC Mountains, uncommon in GA
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
False Garlic, Grace Garlic
Look for it around granite flatrocks, in glades and barrens of various kinds, in open woodlands, and also weedy in fields and along roadsides
Common (rare in Mountains of SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Cultivated Garlic
Look for it in gardens, trash heaps, fields
Commonly cultivated, rarely occurring as a waif or persistent in gardens
Non-native: Eurasia
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