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Your search found 6 taxa in the family Cactaceae, Prickly Pear family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Eastern Prickly Pear
Look for it on granite outcrops, coastal dunes and scrub, sandhills, pine forests in sandy soils, Gulf Coast barrier Islands, riverine sand
Common in NC-SC Coastal Plain (uncommon to rare elsewhere), endemic
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Common Eastern Prickly Pear
Look for it on limestone and chalk outcrops, dolomite outcrops, glades, sandy or blackland prairies, upland hardwood or mixed hardwood-pine forests in dry, clay soils
Rare in GA
Native to Georgia
Look for it on slate outcrops, sandy soils, upland hardwood forests or mixed pine-hardwood forests in dry, clay or silty
Native north of the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Dune Prickly Pear, Dune Devil-joint, Devils-joint Cactus, Little Prickly-pear
Look for it on dunes on barrier islands, less commonly on river-associated sands and on granite outcrops
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Coastal Prickly Pear, Shell Midden Prickly-pear, Yaaxpakan, Erect Prickly-pear
Look for it on coastal dunes and coastal scrub, occasionally in water-logged saline soils of mangroves
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Coastal Prickly Pear, Shell Midden Prickly-pear, Erect Prickly-pear
Look for it on coastal dunes and coastal scrub, shell middens in salt marshes of the Gulf Coast, occasionally in water-logged saline soils of mangroves
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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