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Your search found 200 taxa in the family Fabaceae, Pea or Bean family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Mimosa, Silktree
Look for it in disturbed areas, suburban woodlots, escaped and persistent in forests and woodlands
Common
Non-native: Tropical Asia
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Common Name:
Littleleaf Sensitive-briar, Eastern Sensitive-briar
Look for it in dry woodlands and forests, esp sandhills, disturbed areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Florida Sensitive-briar, Powderpuff Mimosa
Look for it in xeric sandhills and other dry, sandy habitats
Rare, endemic to the Southeastern Coastal Plain
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Mimosa Vine, Sensitive Vine, Powderpuff Mimosa, Vergonzosa
Look for it in floodplain forests, open wet areas
Uncommon, endemic to the Southeastern Coastal Plain
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Illinois Bundleflower, Prairie Mimosa
Look for it in prairies, marsh edges, disturbed areas
Rare in GA-NC-SC
Native: south & west of the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Eastern Redbud, Judas Tree
Look for it in moist to dry forests and woodlands, esp over calcareous or mafic rocks, also commonly planted as an ornamental
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Coffeeweed, Sicklepod
Look for it in fields (esp soybean fields), disturbed areas
Common
Non-native: New World tropics?
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Common Name:
Northern Wild Senna, American Senna
Look for it in open wet habitats, moist forests
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Maryland Senna, Maryland Wild Senna
Look for it in dry to moist forests, especially on greenstone and diabase barrens and rocky woodlands, thickets, woodland borders, sometimes somewhat weedy
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Common Partridge-pea, Showy Partridge Pea
Look for it in fields, disturbed areas, fencerows, & a wide range of other habitats
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Sensitive Partridge-pea, Common Sensitive-plant
Look for it in forests, woodlands, disturbed areas, pine savannas, and a wide variety of other habitats
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Honey Locust
Look for it in woodlands, forests (generally bottomlands), fencerows, often planted as a street tree
Common (uncommon in Coastal Plain, rare in GA Coastal Plain & GA Mtns)
Native: west of the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Water Locust
Look for it in swamp forests
Common
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Kentucky Coffeetree
Look for it native in rich bottomland and slope forests, also in disturbed areas persistent and weakly spreading from horticultural plantings
Rare
Native: north & west of the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Kentucky Yellowwood, Gopherwood
Look for it in mountain forests, Piedmont bluffs, esp on calcareous or mafic rocks (introduced only in the Piedmont of NC)
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Gopherweed, Catbells
Look for it in sandhills
Uncommon, a Southeastern Coastal Plain endemic
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Hairy Rattleweed, Hairy Wild Indigo
Look for it in longleaf pine sandhills
Rare, endemic to GA
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Tall Blue Wild Indigo, Streamside Blue Indigo
Look for it in riverbank scour areas, gravel bars, and disturbed areas (where persisting from cultivation)
Rare, as well as waif(s)
Native to Georgia & TN & northwards (original range obscured by cultivation)
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Common Name:
Eastern Prairie Blue Wild Indigo, Glade Wild Indigo
Look for it in glades, barrens, and open woodlands over limestone (or other calcareous rocks) and diabase (or other mafic rocks), in areas that were formerly prairies, barrens, glades, or oak savannas
Rare
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Carolina Wild Indigo, Gray-hairy Wild Indigo
Look for it in sandhills, other dry sandy woods
Common in NC-SC Coastal Plain (where it is a narow endemic)
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Creamy Wild Indigo
Look for it in sandhills, other dry woodlands
Uncommon (rare in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name:
longbract wild indigo
Look for it in pinelands and, depending on variety, woodlands or coastal prairies
Native: west of the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Gopherweed, Lanceleaf Wild Indigo
Look for it in sandhills
Uncommon (rare in SC), a Southeastern Coastal Plain endemic
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
Common Name:
Nuttall's wild indigo
Look for it in woodlands and prairies
Native: south central US
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Common Name:
Horsefly Weed, Yellow Wild Indigo, Yellow False-indigo, Rattleweed
Look for it in sandhills, pine flatwoods, xeric woodlands, ridges, woodland edges, & roadbanks
Common (rare in GA Piedmont & Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
a hybrid Wild Indigo
Rare?
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Narrow-pod White Wild Indigo, Spiked Wild Indigo
Look for it in dry woodlands, pine flatwoods, roadsides
Uncommon in SC, rare in NC & in GA Mountains & Piedmont
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Thick-pod White Wild Indigo
Look for it in dry woodlands, on roadsides
Uncommon (rare in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
white wild indigo
Look for it in woodlands, prairies, roadsides
Native west of the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name:
Apalachicola Wild Indigo, Bigpod Wild Indigo
Look for it in moist forests of floodplains and lower slopes
Rare (an endemic)
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Aaron's Rod, Blue Ridge Golden-banner, Hairy Bush Pea
Look for it in floodplains, mesic disturbed areas, woodland edges, roadbanks. It is generally found in disturbed sites, its natural habitat somewhat of a mystery
Rare, endemic to the southern Blue Ridge (elsewhere escaped from cultivation)
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Appalachian Golden-banner, Allegheny Mountain Golden-banner, Bush Pea
Look for it on dry slopes and ridges
Rare, endemic to the lower elevations & periphery of the Southern Appalachians
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Ashleaf Golden-banner
Look for it on dry slopes and ridges
Rare, endemic to the Southern Appalachians
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Coastal Plain Rattlebox, Pursh's Rattlebox
Look for it in mesic to dry pinelands, sandy openings, roadsides
Common in Coastal Plain & Piedmont (rare in Mtns) (endemic to SE Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Low Rattlebox, Rabbitbells
Look for it in sandy forests and woodlands, roadsides
Common (rare in Mountains, rare in NC Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Low Rattlebox, Rabbitbells
Look for it in sandy forests and woodlands, roadsides
Rare, endemic to the Southeastern Coastal Plain
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Arrowhead Rattlebox
Look for it in woodlands, woodland edges, openings, fields
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain & Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Showy Rattlebox
Look for it in fields, roadsides, disturbed areas
Common (rare in Mountains)
Non-native: southern Asia
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Common Name:
Smooth Rattlebox
Look for it on roadsides & in fields
Common
Non-native: Africa
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Common Name:
Slenderleaf Rattlebox
Look for it on roadsides and in sandy fields
Uncommon (rare in NC)
Non-native: Africa
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Common Name:
Northern Sundial Lupine
Look for it in sandhills, sandy roadsides, other dry (and usually sandy and nutrient-poor) habitats
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas
Look for it on sandhills and sandy or dry rocky roadsides
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Blue Sandhill Lupine, Sky-blue Lupine
Look for it in sandhills, sandy roadsides
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Lady Lupine, Pink Sandhill Lupine
Look for it in sandhills, on sandy roadsides
Common in GA & SC (uncommon in NC) (an endemic)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in fields, disturbed areas
Waif(s)
Non-native: Mediterranean Europe
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Common Name:
Scotch Broom
Look for it on roadbanks, woodland borders, disturbed areas
Common (rare in Mountains)
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Persian Clover, Reversed Clover
Look for it in lawns and disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: Mediterranean region & western Asia
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Common Name:
Rabbitfoot Clover
Look for it in disturbed areas, shale barrens
Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)
Non-native: Mediterranean region
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Common Name:
Crimson Clover
Look for it in fields, disturbed areas
Common (uncommon in Mountains, uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Red Clover
Look for it in fields, roadsides, disturbed areas
Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
White Clover, White Dutch Clover, Ladino Clover
Look for it in lawns, on roadsides, in disturbed areas
Common
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Alsike Clover
Look for it in lawns, fields, roadsides, disturbed areas
Common
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Buffalo Clover
Look for it in open woodlands, woodland edges, dry shaly places
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Wild White Clover, Carolina Clover
Look for it in open woodlands, woodland edges, pine savannas, thin soils around rock outcrops, disturbed areas
Uncommon in GA, rare in NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Large Hop Clover, Yellow Clover, Golden Clover
Look for it in fields, roadsides, disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Hop Clover, Low Hop Clover, Field Clover
Look for it on roadsides, in fields, lawns, disturbed areas
Common
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Least Hop Clover, Low Hop Clover, Suckling Clover
Look for it on roadsides, in lawns, disturbed areas
Common (uncommon in Mountains)
Non-native: Europe
Common Name:
Strawberry Clover
Look for it in disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: Middle East
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Common Name:
Arrowleaf Clover
Look for it on roadsides, disturbed areas
Uncommon
Non-native: southern Europe
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Common Name:
Small Melilot, Sourclover, Indian Sweetclover
Look for it on roadsides, in disturbed areas
Uncommon (rare in NC)
Non-native: Mediterranean Europe
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