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Your search found 63 taxa in the family Brassicaceae, Mustard family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Rocktwist, Branched Draba, Appalachian Draba
Look for it in crevices of rock outcrops, or in dry talus slopes, over a variety of rock types (including limestone, dolostone, schist, gneiss, shale)
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Sweet Alyssum
Look for it in disturbed areas, lawns
Waif(s)
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Shortpod Draba, Short-fruited Draba
Look for it on granitic flatrocks, open places (fields, roadsides, woodland margins, disturbed areas)
Uncommon in Piedmont & SC Mtns, rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in shallow soils around and under Juniperus virginiana on granitic flatrocks and amphibolite outcrops
Rare
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Whitlow-grass, Spring Draba
Look for it in disturbed areas, especially in dry, barren soils, including granitic flatrocks
Common (rare in Coastal Plain of SC)
Non-native: Europe
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Look for it in fields, disturbed areas
Rare in NC
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Field Pennycress, Frenchweed
Look for it in fields, disturbed areas
Uncommon in NC, rare in GA-SC
Non-native: Europe
Look for it in fields, disturbed areas, roadsides
Rare
Non-native: Europe
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Look for it in disturbed areas
Common in our Mountains & northward, rare southward
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Poor Man's Pepper, Peppergrass
Look for it in disturbed areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Non-native
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Look for it in fields, roadsides, disturbed areas
Common in Coastal Plain, uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Mountains
Non-native: South America
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Common Name:
Common Shepherd's Purse
Look for it in fields, roadsides, disturbed areas
Common
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Southeastern Sea Rocket, Harper's Searocket
Look for it on beaches, at or near the wrack line
Common, endemic to the Southeastern Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Wild Radish, Jointed Charlock, White Charlock
Look for it in fields, roadsides, disturbed areas
Common (rare in Mountains)
Non-native: Mediterranean Europe
Look for it on roadsides
Rare in NC
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Common Dog-mustard, Rocket-weed, French Rocket
Look for it in disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: Europe
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Look for it in fields, disturbed areas
Uncommon
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Rape, Canola, Rutabaga
Look for it in fields, disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Turnip, Field Mustard, Field Rape, Chinese Cabbage
Look for it in fields, disturbed areas
Common (rare in Coastal Plain of GA & SC)
Non-native: Europe
Look for it in fields, disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Garlic Mustard, Hedge Garlic
Look for it in moist forests in bottomlands and on slopes
Common (rare in GA & NC)
Non-native: Europe
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Look for it in fields, pastures, barnyards, disturbed areas
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
Non-native: Europe
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Look for it in fields, disturbed areas
Rare or waifs
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Mouse-ear Cress
Look for it in disturbed areas, fields, roadsides, lawns
Common
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Southeastern Tansy-mustard
Look for it open sandy areas, esp roadsides
Common in GA & SC (uncommon in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Dame's Rocket
Look for it in bottomlands, roadsides, moist forests
Uncommon in NC Mtns, rare in NC Piedmont
Non-native: Europe
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Rare, as well as waif(s)
Non-native: Eurasia
Look for it in marshes, bogs, seeps
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Non-native
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Common Name:
Watercress
Look for it in streams, springs, seepages
Uncommon (common in Mountains)
Non-native: Eurasia
Look for it in streams, springs
Waif(s)
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Early Winter-cress, Creasy
Look for it in fields, disturbed areas
Common
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Yellow Rocket-cress, Common Winter-cress, Yellow Rocket, Creasy
Look for it in fields, disturbed areas
Common (rare in GA Piedmont & SC Coastal Plain)
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Broadleaf Toothwort, Crinkleroot, Pepperroot, Two-leaved Toothwort
Look for it in rich mesic forests
Common
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Eastern Slender Toothwort
Look for it in rich, mesic forests
Uncommon in GA-NC-SC Piedmont, rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Dissected Toothwort, Fineleaf Toothwort, Forkleaf Toothwort
Look for it in rich, mesic forests
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Cutleaf Toothwort
Look for it in rich mesic forests
Common (uncommon in GA-NC-SC Piedmont, rare in GA-NC-SC Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Bulbous Bittercress, Spring Cress
Look for it in swampy forests & bogs, primarily (but not strictly) in circumneutral soils over limestone or mafic rocks
Uncommon (rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in nutrient-rich, mesic forests, esp alluvial bottomlands, & in nutrient-rich seepages
Rare in NC
Native to North Carolina
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Look for it in seepages, streambanks, swampy depressions
Rare in NC
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Mountain Bittercress, Clematis-leaved Bittercress
Look for it on shaded brookbanks, rock outcrops with seepage, at high elevations (1200m & above)
Rare, endemic to the high elevation Southern Appalachians of 4 states
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Blue Ridge Bittercress
Look for it in seepages, on streambanks, & in moist cove or bottomland forests, mainly at moderate to low elevations
Rare or uncommon, depending on variety
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Hairy Bittercress
Look for it in disturbed areas, including fields and gardens
Common
Non-native: Europe
Look for it in disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: east Asia
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Common Name:
Pennsylvania Bittercress, Quaker Bittercress
Look for it various wet habitats, esp swampy depressions, streambanks, small woodland seeps
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it on sand and gravel bars in creeks, in swampy floodplain woods, seepage over rocks
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Sand Bittercress, Small-flowered Bittercress
Look for it in various habitats, primarily seasonally wet areas with shallow soil or sand, also on mafic outcrop glades, as on greenstone, diabase, and nutrient-rich granites
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in alluvial floodplains
Rare
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Tennessee Gladecress, Least Glade-cress
Look for it in limestone glades, disturbed calcareous sites nearby
Rare, endemic to GA's Ridge & Valley and parts of TN
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Michaux's Glade-cress
Look for it in limestone glades, disturbed calcareous sites nearby
Rare, endemic to nw GA and parts of KY-TN
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Sibara, Virginia-cress, Virginia Rockcress, Virginia Winged Rockcress
Look for it in disturbed areas, fields, roadsides
Common (uncommon in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Lyreleaf Rockcress, Dwarf Rockcress, Sandcress
Look for it in rock crevices in or thin soil around calcareous or mafic rock outcrops
Rare
Native to North Carolina & possibly Georgia
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Look for it in open disturbed areas, forest edges
Rare
Native to North Carolina? or possibly introduced
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Common Name:
Spreading Rockcress
Look for it in thin soils around calcareous or dolomitic outcrops, very rarely in nutrient-rich seepage from mafic rocks
Rare and irregularly distributed
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Common Smooth Rockcress
Look for it in rocky woodlands and forests, rock outcrops, esp mafic or calcareous, but also on more acidic substrates, rarely also in bottomlands
Common (uncommon in GA Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in limestone barrens, shale barrens, and other dry, rocky habitats
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Missouri Rockcress
Look for it in thin soil around outcrops of metamudstone, diabase, or granite (generally on mafic or rich granitic substrates)
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Canada Rockcress, Sicklepod
Look for it in thin soils around rock outcrops, esp mafic or calcareous, and in dry to mesic, nutrient-rich, often rocky woodlands over mafic or calcareous rocks
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it on nutrient-rich streambanks and rock outcrops
Rare, endemic to GA-AL
Native to Georgia
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