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Your search found 32 taxa in the family Asclepiadaceae, Milkweed family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.
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Common Name:
Eastern Swamp Milkweed
Look for it in marshes, bogs, swamps
Common (rare in GA, uncommon in SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Swamp Milkweed, Swampforest Milkweed, Swamp White Milkweed, Aquatic Milkweed
Look for it in cypress-gum swamps, bottomland hardwood forests, marshes
Common in GA-SC Coastal Plain (rare in NC))
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Whorled Milkweed, Narrowleaf Milkweed
Look for it in barrens, thin soils of rock outcrops (esp mafic rocks), thin woodlands, sandhills
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Butterfly Milkweed, Butterflyweed, Pleurisy Root, Wind Root
Look for it in woodland margins, roadsides, pastures
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Purple Savanna Milkweed, Red Milkweed, Bog Milkweed
Look for it in pocosin ecotones, wet pine savannas, sandhill seeps, seepage swamps
Uncommon in Coastal Plain of NC-SC, rare elsewhere
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Fewflower Milkweed, Red Milkweed
Look for it in swamps, fresh to slightly brackish marshes, wet pine savannas
Common in GA-SC Coastal Plain (uncommon or rare elsewhere)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Poke Milkweed, Tall Milkweed
Look for it in moist forests, slopes, & forest margins
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Clasping Milkweed, Blunt-leaved Milkweed, Wavyleaf Milkweed
Look for it in sandhills, other dry woodlands of various types
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Fourleaf Milkweed
Look for it in moist to dryish forests & forest margins, most common on mafic & calcareous substrates
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Common Milkweed
Look for it in pastures, roadsides, disturbed areas
Common (rare in Coastal Plain of NC) (rare in SC)
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Pinewoods Milkweed, Fleshy Milkweed
Look for it in sandhills
Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
White Milkweed, Red-ring Milkweed
Look for it in upland forests & woodlands
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Purple Milkweed
Look for it in openings in moist bottomlands & swamp forests, perhaps mostly on soils derived from mafic soils
Uncommon (rare in GA & NC)
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Michaux's Milkweed
Look for it in pine savannas [dry pinelands of the Coastal Plain]
Common (uncommon in SC)
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Pineland Milkweed, Green Milkweed
Look for it in sandhills
Uncommon
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
Look for it in pine savannas
Common in GA, rare in SC
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Longleaf Milkweed, Savanna Milkweed
Look for it in wet pine savannas
Common (rare in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Barrens Milkweed
Look for it in limestone glades, prairies
Rare
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Green Milkweed
Look for it in open woodlands, woodland edges, barrens, glades, esp over mafic or calcareous rocks, and also in disturbed areas
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Stalked Milkweed, Savanna Milkweed
Look for it in dry pine savannas
Rare in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in wet pine flatwoods
Common (rare in SC)
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Green Antelope-horn, Spider Milkweed, Green Milkweed
Look for it in prairies, dry woodlands, calcareous hammocks
Rare
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Bluevine, Sandvine, Honeyvine
Look for it in bottomlands and disturbed areas
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Swallow-wort, Sand-vine, Gulf Coast Swallow-wort
Look for it on coastal hammocks, edges of marshes, generally or always on barrier islands
Common (uncommon in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in coastal hammocks
Rare
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Look for it in disturbed areas. It is reported for many states in the northeast US, south to MD, KY, TN
Non-native: Mediterranean Europe
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Common Name:
Eastern Anglepod
Look for it in mesic to wet forests and thickets
Common in NC-SC Piedmont & SC Coastal Plain, rare in SC Mtns, uncommon elsewhere
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Northern Spinypod, Limerock Milkvine, Climbing Milkvine
Look for it in forests, woodlands, or thickets over calcareous rocks
Rare
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Deceptive Spinypod
Look for it in woodlands & thickets, generally over mafic (in Piedmont) or calcareous rocks (in Coastal Plain)
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Carolina Spinypod, Climbing Milkweed, Climbing Milkvine, Maroon Carolina Milkvine
Look for it in moist to dry, nutrient-rich forests
Common in Piedmont & GA Mountains (rare elesewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Yellow Spinypod, Yellow Carolina Milkvine
Look for it in moist nutrient-rich forests
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in disturbed areas. It is sometimes cultivated and escaped or persistent
Waif(s)
Non-native: Mediterranean Europe
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