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Your search found 20 taxa in the family Araliaceae, Ginseng family, as understood by Weakley's Flora.
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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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Common Name:
Marsh Water-pennywort, Manyflower Marsh-pennywort
Look for it in moist areas
Common in Coastal Plain (uncommon to rare elsewhere)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Dune Pennywort, Seaside Pennywort, Dune Water-pennywort, Largeleaf Pennywort
Look for it on beaches, dunes and in moist sandy areas
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Shield Marsh-pennywort, Whorled Marsh-pennywort
Common in Coastal Plain, uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Mountains
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Whorled Marsh-pennywort, Water-pennywort
Look for it in swamp forests, pools
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in stagnant to (less commonly) swiftly flowing waters of swamps pools, backwaters, blackwater streams
Common (rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
American Water-pennywort
Look for it in bogs, marshes, seepages, cliffs and ledges where wet by seepage or spray from waterfalls, sometimes roadside ditches
Rare south of VA
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Lawn Marsh-pennywort, Lawn Water-pennywort
Look for it in lawns, pond margins, cracks between paving stones
Uncommon
Non-native: Africa & Asia
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