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Common Name:
Rosebay Rhododendron, Great Laurel, White Rosebay, Great Rhododendron
Look for it on moist slopes, in wet flats, bogs, swamps, north-facing bluffs in Piedmont
Common (uncommon in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Catawba Rhododendron, Mountain Rosebay, Purple Laurel, Pink Laurel
Look for it on rocky summits, shrub balds, acid ridges & slopes (mostly at high elevations), north-facing bluffs in Piedmont
Common in Mtns, rare in Piedmont, rare in SC, endemic to Southern Appalachians
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Gorge Rhododendron, Punctatum, Piedmont Rhododendron
Look for it on rocky slopes, in escarpment gorges, rocky areas in the Piedmont, sandhill bluffs in the Coastal Plain
Common in Mountains (rare in Piedmont & Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Carolina Rhododendron, Punctatum
Look for it on rocky summits, heath balds, high elevation forests, moist slopes
Uncommon, endemic to the Southern Appalachians
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Pinkshell Azalea
Look for it on moist slopes, bogs, high elevation rocky summits, cliffs, high elevation heath balds
Rare, endemic to the NC mountains
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Flame Azalea
Look for it in deciduous forests, particularly on mountain slopes, grassy balds
Common in Mountains, rare in Piedmont
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Oconee Azalea
Look for it in longleaf pine sandhills, upland forests on slopes, ridges, stream bluffs
Rare
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Plumleaf Azalea
Look for it in mesic ravine forests and streambanks
Rare, endemic to a small area along AL-GA border
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Cumberland Azalea, Baker's Azalea
Look for it on balds and exposed or moist slopes
Rare, endemic to the Southern Appalachians, primarily west of the Blue Ridge
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Piedmont Azalea, Southern Pinxterbloom Azalea, Hoary Azalea
Look for it in swamps, pocosins, & savannas
Common in GA-SC Coastal Plain, uncommon in GA-SC Piedmont, rare in NC-SC Mtns
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Florida Flame Azalea, Yellow Azalea
Look for it in hammocks, bluffs, floodplain forests
Rare
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Election Pink, Roseshell Azalea, Early Azalea
Look for it in upland forests (esp under Quercus montana & Quercus rubra), xeric pine & oak woodlands
Rare
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
May White Azalea, Eastman's Azalea
Look for it on rich slopes
Rare (though locally common), endemic to the SC Piedmont
Native to South Carolina
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Common Name:
Red Hills Azalea, May-pink Azalea
Look for it in moist hammocks, moist bluffs, along streams
Uncommon
Native to Georgia
Common Name:
Alabama Azalea
Look for it on moist slopes, bluffs, streambanks
Uncommon in Coastal Plain, rare elsewhere in GA
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Pinxterflower, Pinxterbloom Azalea, Election Pink, Pinxter Azalea
Look for it on moist to dry slopes and streambanks
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Dwarf Azalea, Coastal Azalea
Look for it in pocosins, savannas, pine flatwoods, sandhill-pocosin ecotones
Common in NC-SC, uncommon in GA, endemic to the Atlantic Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Swamp Azalea, Clammy Azalea, Swamp Honeysuckle, Catchfly Azalea
Look for it on moist streambanks, shrub balds, and other moist habitats
Common in Piedmont & NC-SC Mountains (uncommon to rare elesewhere)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in moderate to high elevation sites, in dry to seasonally seepy sites
Rare (an endemic)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Swamp Azalea, Clammy Azalea, Sweet Azalea
Look for it in bogs, pocosins, wet pine savannas
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Sweet Azalea, Smooth Azalea
Look for it on rocky riversides, wooded streambanks, swamps, high elevation forests, shrub balds
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Minniebush
Look for it on heath balds, bogs, rocky summits, & rocky woodlands, mostly at high elevations
Uncommon in NC Mtns, rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC (endemic to S & C Appalachians)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Sand-myrtle, Mountain Myrtle
Look for it - locally abundant but very restricted in wet (spodosol) pinelands of outer Coastal Plain (in Brunswick & Carteret Counties, NC), locally common in relatively dry sandhills in a few locations in the Sandhills, disjunct in Piedmont on a few quartzite monadnocks, fairly common in the mountains on rock outcrops at high to moderate elevations (on a wide variety of rock types)
Uncommon in NC Mountains, rare elsewhere
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Mountain Laurel, Ivy, Calico-bush, Mountain Ivy
Look for it in acidic forests, bluffs, bogs, along sandhill streams, & in a wide range of other habitats, nearly ubiquitous in the mountains, up to at least 1600m, more restricted in habitat in lower Piedmont & Coastal Plain
Common (rare in GA Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Sheepkill, Carolina Wicky, Carolina Sheep Laurel, Carolina Bog Myrtle
Look for it in moist to wet pinelands of the Coastal Plain, pocosin margins (or seemingly in pocosins or swamps because of fire suppression), mountain bogs & fens (& less commonly in rocky areas at high elevations) in the Mountains
Common in NC Coastal Plain, uncommon in SC Coastal Plain (rare in Mtns & in GA)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Northern Sheepkill, Sheep Laurel, Lamb-kill
Look for it in sandy, xeric to mesic hillsides and moist areas, rocky areas
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
White Wicky
Look for it in pocosins and pocosin-savanna or pocosin-sandhill ecotones
Rare, narrowly endemic to the Coastal Plain of se. NC & e. SC
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Hairy Wicky
Look for it in pine savannas and pine flatwoods
Common in GA, rare in SC
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Zenobia, Honeycups
Look for it in pocosins, margins of pineland pools
Common in NC-SC Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere), a narrow endemic
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Evergreen Mountain Fetterbush, Mountain Andromeda
Look for it on acid wooded slopes, heath balds at high elevations, summits of Piedmont monadnocks, sometimes escaped from cultivation
Uncommon to rare in NC, with a peculiar range
Native to North Carolina & possibly Georgia
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Common Name:
Vine-wicky, Climbing Fetterbush, Climbing Wicky
Look for it in swamp forests. This southeastern species has the remarkable habit of often growing as a creeping vine under the bark of Taxodium ascendens, the branches exserted thru the cypress bark, sometimes ascending into the upper canopy with the main stem never visible except at the very base of the tree; it also sometimes grows as a low shrub
Rare in GA-SC
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Japanese Andromeda, Lily-of-the-Valley Bush
Non-native: Japan, Taiwan, & China
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Common Name:
Northern Maleberry, He-huckleberry
Look for it in mountain bogs, shrub balds, bottomlands, other moist to wet habitats, "dry" ridges at high elevations
Common (uncommon in GA Piedmont, uncommon in SC Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Rusty Lyonia, Staggerbush, Dragonwood, Crookedwood
Look for it in dry oak and pine woodlands, scrub, rarely pocosins, spodosolic flatwoods
Common
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Staggerbush, Poor-grub
Look for it in pocosins
Common (rare in SC)
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Shining Fetterbush, Lyonia, Hemleaf
Look for it in pocosins, wet woodlands, blackwater swamp forests, other acidic wetlands, esp if peaty
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Staggerbush
Look for it in pine flatwoods, savannas, pocosin-sandhill ecotones, dry rocky woodlands in the lower Piedmont (esp with chestnut oak)
Common (uncommon in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Tall Fetterbush, Florida Leucothoe, Florida Hobblebush, Agarista
Look for it in blackwater swamps, hydric hammocks, marly spring runs
Rare in Coastal Plain, waif in Piedmont
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Coastal Doghobble, Coastal Plain Doghobble
Look for it in pocosins, blackwater swamp forests, and moist & acid slopes
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Pdmt), endemic to Southeastern Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Mountain Doghobble, Highland Doghobble, Switch-ivy
Look for it on moist slopes, streambanks, ravines, often associated with Rhododendron maximum thickets
Common, endemic to the Southern Appalachians
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Mountain Sweetbells, Mountain Fetterbush, Deciduous Fetterbush
Look for it on heath balds, high elevation ridges and granitic domes, bogs
Common in NC Mtns, rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC (endemic to Southern Appalachians)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Coastal Fetterbush, Swamp Sweetbells, Swamp Leucothoe, Swamp Fetterbush
Look for it in swamps, pocosins, streambanks, and other wet places
Common in Coastal Plain, uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Mountains
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Sourwood, Sorrel-tree
Look for it in mesic to xeric deciduous forests, esp dry-mesic to xeric oak-hickory & oak-pine forests, also in sandhill/pocosin ecotones
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Leatherleaf, Cassandra
Look for it in pocosins in the Coastal Plain, bogs in the Mountains, Chamaecyparis bogs
Uncommon (rare in Mountains, where nearly extirpated)
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Trailing Arbutus, Mayflower
Look for it in a wide variety of acidic forests, xeric to mesic, sandy, rocky, & loamy
Common (rare in GA Piedmont & SC Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Wintergreen, Teaberry
Look for it in heath balds, woodlands, & openings, usually acidic & xeric
Common (uncommon in Piedmont & Coastal Plain) (rare in GA & SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in spruce-fir forests, northern hardwoods, forests, bogs at high elevations
Rare
Native: north of the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in sandy thickets
Rare
Non-native: Europe
Common Name:
Box Huckleberry
Look for it in dry, acidic ridgetops and upper slopes
Rare in NC
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Southern Dwarf Huckleberry
Look for it in longleaf pine sandhills, pine flatwoods, other xeric to mesic, acidic forests and woodlands
Common (uncommon in Piedmont & Mountains of NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in peat dome pocosins (in NC and VA), sandhill seepage bogs (SC), Chamaecyparis bogs (DE), generally growing in peat, forms transitional to var. dumosa in wet pinelands and disturbed pocosins
Rare
Native to the Carolinas
Look for it in bogs, seepages over granite
Rare (an endemic)
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Dangleberry
Look for it in mesic, acidic woodlands, esp sandhill-pocosin and savanna-pocosin ecotones, also in xeric chestnut oak forests in the lower Piedmont
Common in Coastal Plain, uncommon in Pdmt (primarily a se. Coastal Plain species
Native to the Carolinas
Look for it in pine flatwoods, sandhills, xeric coastal fringe sandhills
Common in GA, rare in SC
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Black Huckleberry, Crackleberry
Look for it in xeric, acidic forests and woodlands, rock outcrops, to 1600m elevation
Common in Mountains, uncommon elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Bear Huckleberry, Buckberry, Mountain Huckleberry
Look for it in mesic to xeric forests, frequently dominant, but limited to areas southwest of the Asheville Basin
Common in Mountains, rare in Piedmont (a narrow Southern Appalachian endemic)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Mosier's Huckleberry, Hirsute Huckleberry
Look for it in savannas and seepages
Uncommon in GA
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Sparkleberry, Farkleberry
Look for it in rocky or sandy woodlands, bluffs, and cliffs, usually xeric and often fire-maintained, and unlike most other Vaccinium, often on mafic, ultramafic, or calcareous rocks
Common (uncommon in GA Mountains, rare in NC-SC Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Common Deerberry
Look for it in xeric to submesic woodlands, forests, and rock outcrops (unlike most Vaccinium, often on mafic, ultramafic, or calcareous rocks)
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Dwarf Deerberry
Look for it in pinelands
Common in Carolina Coastal Plain, rare in GA (an endemic)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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