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Your search found 5 taxa in the family Hamamelidaceae, Witch Hazel family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.
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Common Name:
Sweetgum
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Liquidambar styraciflua FAMILY: Altingiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Liquidambar styraciflua FAMILY: Hamamelidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Liquidambar styraciflua 095-01-001 FAMILY: Hamamelidaceae
Habitat: Swamp forests, floodplains, moist forests, depressional wetlands, pond and lake margins, old fields, disturbed areas, nearly ubiquitous in the modern southeastern United States landscape
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
American Witch-hazel, Northern Witch-hazel
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Hamamelis virginiana var. virginiana FAMILY: Hamamelidaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Hamamelis virginiana FAMILY: Hamamelidaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Hamamelis virginiana 095-02-001 FAMILY: Hamamelidaceae
Habitat: Moist to dryish forests
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Vernal Witch-hazel, Ozark Witch-hazel, Springtime Witch-hazel
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) - FAMILY: Hamamelidaceae
PLANTS National Database: Hamamelis vernalis FAMILY: Hamamelidaceae
Native: south central US
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Common Name:
Coastal Witch-alder, Dwarf Witch-alder, Small Witch-alder, Fothergilla
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Fothergilla gardenii FAMILY: Hamamelidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Fothergilla gardenii FAMILY: Hamamelidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Fothergilla gardenii 095-03-001 FAMILY: Hamamelidaceae
Habitat: Wet savannas, pocosins, and margins of pocosins, and pitcherplant bogs
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Large Witch-alder, Mountain Witch-alder, Fothergilla
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Fothergilla major FAMILY: Hamamelidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Fothergilla major FAMILY: Hamamelidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Fothergilla major 095-03-002 FAMILY: Hamamelidaceae
Habitat: Dry ridgetop forests of middle elevation ridges in the mountains, especially along the Blue Ridge Escarpment, summits and upper slopes of Piedmont monadnocks, north-facing bluffs and along small streams in the lower Piedmont
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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