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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
Look for it in pine flatwoods and maritime forests
Common in GA, rare in SC (though locally abundant)
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
Look for it in swamps, maritime forests, low moist woods, esp in calcareous soils developed from shell limestone (marl), rarely planted as an ornamental farther inland, where persisting (and appearing native) or possibly naturalizing
Rare (rare in NC Piedmont, where introduced)
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
Look for it in maritime forests, marsh edges, and other near-coastal communities
Common (rare in NC)
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
Look for it in moist to wet soils of small blackwater stream swamps, esp where underlain with coquina limestone ("marl"), hydric hammocks and rich, wetland-upland transitions
Rare in GA & SC
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
Look for it . It is widely planted in the outer Coastal Plain of se. NC, e. SC, e. GA, and FL. It persists and can appear naturalized in apparently semi-natural situations
Waif(s)
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
Look for it . It rarely reaches our shores as propagules (coconuts, which may germinate and live briefly), but it is not established
Waif(s)
Non-native: probably tropical islands of western Pacific (now pantropical)
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