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Your search found 44 taxa in the family Convolvulaceae, Morning Glory family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Compact Dodder
Look for it in wet habitats, on herbaceous and esp on woody hosts
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it on a wide variety of woody and herbaceous hosts
Rare
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Five-angled Dodder
Look for it on a wide variety of hosts
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Field Dodder, Prairie Dodder, Golden Dodder
Look for it on roadsides, in fields, open disturbed areas, especially on herbaceous Fabaceae
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia - the original distribution unclear
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Look for it primarily on woody hosts
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Appalachian Dodder, Beaked Dodder
Look for it in high elevation hardwood forests and thickets, especially on Asteraceae (Rudbeckia, Solidago, Symphyotrichum, Eurybia)
Common (rare in GA), endemic to the Southern Appalachians
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Common Dodder
Look for it on a very wide variety of herbaceous and woody plants
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Harper's Dodder
Look for it on outcrops of granite (Piedmont) and Altamaha grit (Coastal Plain), typically on plants such as Liatris microcephala, Bigelowia nuttallii, Hypericum gentianoides, and Croton willdenowii
Rare
Native to Georgia
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Look for it in salt marshes (on Iva frutescens), roadsides, disturbed areas
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it on herbs in calcareous glades and other habitats
Rare
Native to Georgia
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Look for it on Polygonum and other hosts
Native
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Common Name:
Japanese Dodder
Look for it in disturbed areas, especially on Fabaceae and woody plants
Rare
Non-native: east Asia
Look for it in scattered sites in eastern North America, including AL, MD, and OH
Non-native
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Common Name:
Carolina Ponyfoot
Look for it in lawns, on roadisdes, moist pinelands (rarely seen in a "natural" habitat, but often seen in lawns and other mowed grassy areas)
Common (rare in NC Piedmont)
Native to the Coastal Plain of the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Pickering's Dawnflower, Pickering's Morning Glory
Look for it in sandhills, usually in the driest, most barren, deep-sand areas, occasionally colonizing dry, disturbed areas in sandhills, such as sandy roadbanks. Also known from the Fall-line Sandhills, aeolian rims of Carolina bays, and sandhills on relict riverine dunes along Coastal Plain rivers
Rare (an endemic)
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Water Dawnflower
Look for it in clay-based Carolina bays and wet savannas
Uncommon (rare in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Dawnflower
Look for it sandhills and other dry woodlands, esp on dryish stream terraces
Common (rare in Mountains, rare in NC Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Sandhill Dawnflower, Sandhill Morning Glory, Coastal Plain Dawnflower, Common Dawnflower
Look for it in sandhills and other relatively dry sandy areas
Common (an endemic)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Narrowleaf Dawnflower
Look for it in sandhills
Uncommon (rare in NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Jacquemontia, Smallflower Morning Glory, Hairy Clustervine, Tie Vine
Look for it in fields, on roadsides, other disturbed areas
Uncommon in GA, NC, SC
Original distribution unclear, probably not native to the SE US
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Common Name:
Field Bindweed, Creeping Jenny, Possession-vine, Cornbind
Look for it in fields, roadsides, disturbed areas
Uncommon in NC & in SC Mtns, rare elsewhere in GA & SC
Non-native: Europe
Look for it in openings, woodland edges
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Appalachian Bindweed
Look for it in woodland edges
Common in Mountains, rare elsewhere
Native to North Carolina
Look for it in woodland edges
Uncommon in Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Twin-flowered Bindweed, Twoflower Bindweed, Shortstalk False Bindweed
Look for it in thickets, on roadsides, in fields, on streambanks, in disturbed areas
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Blue Ridge Bindweed, Silky Bindweed, Downy False Bindweed
Look for it openings in dry to dry-mesic montane forests
Rare (an endemic)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Catesby's Bindweed, Catesby's False Bindweed
Look for it in longleaf pine savannas, marsh edges, openings in dry to dry-mesic montane forests
Uncommon in Mountains, rare elsewhere
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in shale barrens and woodlands, less typically on limestone
Rare (an endemic)
Native to North Carolina & possibly Georgia and/or South Carolina
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Look for it in dry limestone areas
Native north of the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Cypress-vine
Look for it in fields, hedgerows, disturbed areas
Common (rare in Piedmont)
Non-native: Tropical America
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Common Name:
Small Red Morning Glory, Scarlet Creeper
Look for it in fields, roadsides, thickets, streambanks
Common
Native distribution uncertain, but apparently native to southeast US
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Common Name:
Scarlet Creeper
Look for it in disturbed areas
Uncommon
Non-native: tropical America
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Common Name:
Common Morning Glory
Look for it in fields, disturbed areas
Common
Non-native: Tropical America
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Common Name:
Ivyleaf Morning Glory
Look for it in fields, disturbed areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia, apparently (native distribution obscure)
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Common Name:
Fiddleleaf Morning Glory, Beach Morning Glory
Look for it on beaches, dune blowouts, fore-dunes
Common in GA (rare in NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it to be persistent in fields after cultivation, or in disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: tropical America, apparently
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Common Name:
Coastal Morning Glory, Tie-vine, Cotton Morning Glory
Look for it on dunes, in sandy areas on barrier islands, other sandy habitats
Common (uncommon in NC, rare outside of Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Small White Morning Glory, Small-flowered Morning Glory, Whitestar
Look for it on riverbanks, in fields, roadsides, disturbed areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it on edges of brackish marshes, moist thickets on barrier islands, hammocks
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Indian Midden Morning Glory, Largeroot Morning Glory, Manroot
Look for it in hammocks, shell middens, dunes, dry sands, disturbed maritime areas
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Manroot, Wild Potato Vine, Man-of-the-earth, Wild Sweet Potato
Look for it in disturbed areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Railroad Vine, Bay Hops, Bay Winders, Goat's-foot
Look for it on ocean beaches
Uncommon (rare in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Water Spinach, Swamp Morning Glory
Non-native: China
Look for it on hammocks, sand dunes, disturbed areas
Non-native: Tropics
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