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Your search found 50 taxa in the family Caryophyllaceae, Pink family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Knawel, Annual Knawel
Look for it in fields, ditches, roadsides, other disturbed areas
Common (uncommon in GA, uncommon in Mountains)
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Silverling, Silver Whitlow-wort, Silvery Nailwort
Look for it in thin soils of rock outcrops, esp on mountain summits at high elevations, disjunct to a few Piedmont monadnocks
Uncommon (rare in GA)
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
Common Name:
Forked Chickweed, Canada Whitlow-wort, Smooth Forked Nailwort
Look for it in dry rocky woods, shale barrens
Common in NC Mountains, uncommon in GA Mtns, rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in shale barrens, rocky riversides, calcareous rock outcrops and talus, serpentine outcrops
Rare
Native to Georgia & north of the Carolinas
Common Name:
Coastal Plain Wireplant, Pineland Scaly-pink
Look for it in xeric sands of sandhills, dry pine flatwoods, maritime forests
Common in Coastal Plain (an endemic)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in marshes, streambeds, wet meadows
Rare
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Common Chickweed
Look for it in disturbed areas, gardens, fields, bottomlands, moist forests
Common
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Lesser Stitchwort, Grassleaf Starwort
Look for it in fields, roadsides, pastures, disturbed areas
Uncommon to rare
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Giant Chickweed, Star Chickweed, Great Chickweed, Common Starwort
Look for it in bottomland forests, moist slopes, coves, hammocks
Common (uncommon in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in seepages
Rare
Native to North Carolina & Georgia? a circumboreal species
Look for it in meadows, floodplain forests, freshwater tidal marshes, moist disturbed areas
Uncommon in SC, rare in NC
Native to the Carolinas. Apparently circumboreal
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Common Name:
Mouse-ear Chickweed
Look for it in fields, disturbed areas
Common
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Little Mouse-ear Chickweed, Fivestamen Chickweed
Look for it in disturbed areas
Uncommon in SC Coastal Plain, rare elsewhere in NC-SC
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Sticky Mouse-ear, Sticky Chickweed, Sticky Mouse-ear Chickweed
Look for it in fields, disturbed areas
Common
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Gray Mouse-ear Chickweed, Gray Chickweed
Look for it on roadsides, in disturbed areas
Common (rare in Coastal Plain, rare in SC)
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Nodding Mouse-ear Chickweed, Nodding Chickweed
Look for it in alluvial forests, bottomlands, moist forests
Common in NC, rare in GA-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in fields, roadsides, lawns, disturbed shale barrens, other disturbed areas
Common in NC-SC (rare in GA)
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Trailing Pearlwort, Eastern Pearlwort, Annual Pearlwort
Look for it in disturbed ground, fields, cracks in pavement or sidewalks
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in disturbed soils
Rare
Non-native: Eurasia, & possibly native to ne. North America
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Common Name:
Carolina Sandwort, Longroot, Pine-barren Sandwort
Look for it in deep white sands of barren longleaf pine sandhills, sand barrens, other dry sandy habitats
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in disturbed areas
Common (uncommon in Coastal Plain, uncommon in GA)
Non-native: Eurasia
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Look for it in disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: Eurasia
Look for it on dunes, maritime forests, coquina limestone outcrops
Uncommon (rare in Piedmont) (rare in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Piedmont Sandwort, One-flower Sandwort
Look for it on granitic flatrocks, outcrops of Altamaha grit
Uncommon in GA Piedmont, rare elsewhere (an endemic)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Greenland Sandwort, Mountain Sandwort
Look for it on low elevation rock outcrops to high elevation rock outcrops in the Mountains (ascending to nearly 2000m on Roan Mtn), also disjunct on the summits of quartzite monadnocks in the upper Piedmont
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Appalachian Sandwort
Look for it on granitic flatrocks, other outcrops of granite, granitic gneiss, or other felsic gneisses and schists. In the mountains it's restricted to low or medium elevations
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in tidal freshwater marshes, other wetlands
Rare (with isolated and scattered locations in the Coastal Plain & Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Lime-barren Sandwort, Glade Sandwort
Look for it in rocky barrens of calcareous or mafic rocks
Rare in GA
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Deptford Pink
Look for it in fields, roadsides, pastures
Common
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Corncockle, Purple Cockle, Corn-campion
Look for it in fields, disturbed areas
Common (uncommon in GA Piedmont, rare in GA Coastal Plain)
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Rose Campion, Mullein-pink
Look for it in disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
White Campion, Evening Campion, White Cockle, Evening Lychnis
Look for it in fields, on roadsides, disturbed areas
Rare south of NC
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Ragged Robin
Look for it in disturbed areas
Waif(s)
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Soapwort, Bouncing Bet
Look for it in disturbed areas, fields, roadsides
Common
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Starry Campion, Widow's-frill
Look for it in dry to mesic forests, rock outcrops
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Forked Catchfly
Look for it in fields, disturbed areas
Uncommon in NC Mountains
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Bladder Campion, Maiden's-tears
Look for it in disturbed areas
Rare south of VA
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Sleepy Catchfly, Garter-pink
Look for it in fields, disturbed areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in disturbed areas
Rare south of MD
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Fire Pink
Look for it in woodlands, rock outcrops, crevices in cliffs, roadbanks
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Royal Catchfly
Look for it in prairies and calcareous woodlands and forests
Rare
Native to Georgia
Look for it in mesic forest margins
Rare
Native: north of the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
South Carolina Wild-pink, Rock Catchfly, Carolina Pink
Look for it in acidic, sandy, open woodlands, esp woodlands around granitic flatrocks, and also on rocky mafic slopes
Uncommon in SC, rare in GA & NC (endemic to the 3 states)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Northern Wild-pink, Sticky Catchfly, Pennsylvania Catchfly
Look for it in open woodlands, esp calcareous, but also in sandy soils of the Coastal Plain
Rare in NC
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Mountain Catchfly, Fringed Campion, Blue Ridge Catchfly
Look for it in circumneutral soils of woodlands and forests, esp over mafic or calcareous rocks, mostly at medium elevations in the mountains
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Night-flowering Catchfly, Sticky Campion, Sticky Cockle
Look for it in fields, disturbed areas
Rare south of WV
Non-native: Europe
Look for it in rocky or sandy flood-scoured riversides or creeksides
Rare
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Eastern Fringed Campion, Eastern Fringed Catchfly
Look for it in mesic deciduous forests along streams or on lower- to mid-slopes
Rare, endemic to GA & FL
Native to Georgia
Common Name:
Heartleaf Drymary, West Indian Chickweed
Look for it in moist hammocks, moist disturbed areas
Rare in GA
Native to Georgia
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Look for it in disturbed areas
Waif(s)
Non-native: Eurasia
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