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Your search found 13 taxa in the family Araliaceae, Ginseng family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.
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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
Look for it to be persistent, established, and spreading around old home sites, in suburban woodlands and waste areas;
Uncommon
Non-native: Europe
Look for it to be persistent after cultivation, perhaps not naturalized
Rare
Non-native: the Caucasus
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Common Name:
Dwarf Ginseng
Look for it in cove forests, bottomland forests, other nutrient-rich forests
Uncommon in Mountains, rare in Piedmont
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
American Ginseng, Sang
Look for it in cove forests, mesic hardwood forests, generally in nutrient-rich forests though tending to avoid the richest coves
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain)
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:
Wild Sarsaparilla
Look for it in upland forests & woodlands, rocky places, most typically in rather dry places, such as ridgetop forests
Common (uncommon in Piedmont, uncommon in SC, rare in GA)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Spikenard
Look for it in rich woodlands, trail margins & roadsides
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Bristly Sarsaparilla
Look for it in rocky woodlands, cliffs, and clearings, primarily over acidic rocks (such as quartzite, granite, and sandstone)
Rare
Native north of the Carolinas & perhaps in NC
Look for it in suburban woodlands. This is an alien spreading southward from the northeastern US to at least as far south as VA.
Rare
Non-native: Japan
Look for it in suburban woodlands
Waif(s)
Non-native: Japan
Look for it in disturbed suburban areas
Non-native: east Asia
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Common Name:
Umbrella Tree, Octopus Tree, Schefflera
Non-native: South Pacific
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