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Your search found 31 taxa in the family Gentianaceae, Gentian family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.
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Common Name:
White Sabatia, Lanceleaf Rose-gentian, Lanceleaf Sabatia
Look for it in pine savannas, bogs, pocosins
Common (rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Four-angle Sabatia, Four-angle Rose-gentian
Look for it in sandhills, moist forests, pocosin ecotones.
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Narrowleaf Rose-pink, Narrowleaf Rose-gentian, Narrowleaf Sabatia
Look for it in mesic pinelands, sandhills, pine savannas, pine flatwoods
Uncommon (rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Rose-pink, Bitterbloom, Common Marsh-pink
Look for it in forests, woodlands, marshes, fields
Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Annual Sea-pink, Salt-marsh Pink, Rose-of-Plymouth
Look for it in brackish marshes
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in pine savannas, bogs
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont & Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Coastal Rose-pink, Coastal Rose-gentian
Look for it in swamp forests, on river banks
Common in Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Perennial Sea-pink, Large Marsh Rose-pink, Marsh Rose-gentian
Look for it in tidal brackish & freshwater marshes
Common (rare in GA)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Marsh Rose-gentian
Uncommon
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Bartram's Rose-gentian
Look for it in margins of Taxodium ascendens-Nyssa depressions, wet pine flatwoods
Uncommon in GA, rare in SC
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Plymouth Rose-gentian, Plymouth Gentian
Look for it in seasonally exposed drawdown banks of the Waccamaw River, in adjacent ditches and disturbed flats
Rare
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Pinewoods Rose-gentian, Pinewoods Rose-pink
Look for it in pine savannas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Cumberland Rose-gentian, Appalachian Rose-gentian
Look for it in sloping woodlands and meadows, over sandstone or shale
Rare
Native to Georgia & apparently North Carolina
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Common Name:
Largeflower Rose-gentian
Look for it in wet flatwoods, marshes, cypress-gum depressions, limesink ponds, borrow pits
Native to Florida & Alabama
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Common Name:
Eastern Fringed Gentian, Greater Fringed Gentian
Look for it in sunny or semi-shaded seepage areas over calcareous, mafic, or ultramafic rocks (such as limestone, amphibolite, or serpentinized olivine)
Rare
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Stiff Gentian, Appalachian Gentianella, Fivefinger Gentian, Eastern Agueweed
Look for it in forests, grassy balds
Common in NC Mountains, uncommon elsewhere
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Pinebarren Gentian, Autumn Gentian
Look for it in savannas, pine flatwoods, sandhills, in a variety of sites varying from moist to very xeric nearly always (in NC-SC) associated with Pinus palustris and/or Aristida stricta
Uncommon in NC, rare in SC
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Striped Gentian
Look for it in upland forests, sandhill/pocosin ecotones
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in moist meadows
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Appalachian Gentian, Showy Gentian
Look for it in forests
Common (rare in Piedmont), endemic to the Southern Appalachians
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Meadow Closed Gentian, Meadow Bottle Gentian
Look for it in forests
Uncommon
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Blue Ridge Gentian, Appalachian Gentian, Pine Barren Gentian
Look for it mountain forests and grassy balds, especially at medium to high elevations, but descending to ca. 600 m (2200 feet)
Uncommon
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Balsam Mountain Gentian
Look for it in moist, often seeping, more or less open sites on rocky slopes
Rare, restricted to the higher mountains of NC south of Asheville
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Soapwort Gentian, Harvest Bells
Look for it in bogs, marshes, wet hardwood forests, other moist to wet habitats
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Coastal Plain Gentian, Catesby's Gentian, Elliott's Gentian
Look for it in pocosins, moist savanna edges, edges of moist hardwood forests, bluff seepages
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont & Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Prairie Closed Gentian, Closed Bottle Gentian
Look for it in meadows, seeps, forest edges
Rare
Native: north of the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in openings in spruce-fir forest, bogs, at high elevations
Rare
Native: north of the Carolinas
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Common Name:
American Columbo
Look for it in rich forests over mafic or calcareous rocks, upper slopes of cove forests, floodplain forests
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Spring Bartonia, White Bartonia, White Screwstem
Look for it in wet pine savannas, on shores of Coastal Plain depression ponds, interdune swales, other moist sands
Common (uncommon in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Virginia Bartonia, Yellow Screwstem, Yellow Bartonia, Common Bartonia
Look for it in bogs, swamps, savannas, pocosin ecotones, pocosins, dune swales
Uncommon (rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Pennywort, Virginia Pennywort
Look for it in nutrient-rich, moist forests, mesic hammocks
Common (rare in Coastal Plain south of VA, uncommon in GA Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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