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Your search found 6 taxa in the family Arecaceae, Palm family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.
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Common Name:
Saw Palmetto
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Serenoa repens FAMILY: Arecaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Serenoa repens FAMILY: Arecaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Serenoa repens 031-01-001 FAMILY: Arecaceae
Habitat: Pine flatwoods, maritime forests, pine rocklands (in FL)
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Dwarf Palmetto, Bush Palmetto, Dwarf Blue Palmetto, Bluestem Palmetto
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Sabal minor FAMILY: Arecaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sabal minor FAMILY: Arecaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sabal minor 031-02-001 FAMILY: Arecaceae
Habitat: Swamps, maritime forests, low moist woods, especially in calcareous soils developed from shell limestone (marl), hardwood flatwoods, marshes, saline barrens, also rarely planted as an ornamental farther inland, where persisting (and appearing native) or possibly naturalizing
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Cabbage Palmetto
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Sabal palmetto FAMILY: Arecaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sabal palmetto FAMILY: Arecaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sabal palmetto 031-02-002 FAMILY: Arecaceae
Habitat: Maritime forests, marsh edges, and other near-coastal communities
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Needle Palm, Blue Palmetto
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Rhapidophyllum hystrix FAMILY: Arecaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Rhapidophyllum hystrix FAMILY: Arecaceae
Habitat: Moist to wet soils of small blackwater stream swamps, especially where underlain with coquina limestone ("marl"), hydric hammocks and rich, wetland-upland transitions
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Pindo Palm, South American Jelly Palm, Brazilian Butia
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Butia odorata FAMILY: Arecaceae
(?) INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Butia capitata FAMILY: Arecaceae
Habitat: Widely planted in the outer Coastal Plain of se. NC, e. SC, e. GA, and FL, persistent in apparently semi-natural situations, and now showing signs of naturalizing into natural areas
Non-native: Brazil & Uruguay
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Common Name:
Coconut Palm
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Cocos nucifera FAMILY: Arecaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cocos nucifera FAMILY: Arecaceae
Habitat: Beaches, disturbed areas
Non-native: probably tropical islands of western Pacific (now pantropical)
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