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Your search found 127 taxa.
Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Narrowleaf Blue Curls
Look for it in thin soils around rock outcrops, esp granite flatrocks, dry sandy soils of the Coastal Plain
Uncommon (rare in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Forked Bluecurls, Common Blue Curls
Look for it in dry woodlands, disturbed areas, thin soils around rock outcrops
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Glade Blue Curls, False Pennyroyal, Fluxweed
Look for it in shale barrens, outcrops of calcareous or mafic rock, diabase barrens, calcareous dry prairies, disturbed rocky areas
Uncommon (rare in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Carpet Bugle, Bugle-weed
Look for it in lawns & roadsides
Rare in NC
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
American Germander, Wood Sage
Look for it (depending on variety) in rich bottomlands, prairies, marshes
Common to rare, depending on variety
Native
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Common Name:
Musky Mint, Cluster Bushmint
Look for it in wet pine savannas, margins of swamp forests, wet powerline rights-of-way, ditches
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in moist disturbed areas
Uncommon in GA, rare in SC
Non-native: South America
Native to South Carolina
Look for it in bottomland forests, rocky woodlands, glades, barrens, prairies
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Shale-barren Skullcap, Glade Skullcap, Leonard's Skullcap
Look for it in limestone glades, diabase barrens, shale barrens and woodlands, dry sandy soils
Rare
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Veined Skullcap, Bottomland Skullcap
Look for it in alluvial forests, mesic to dry forests (esp over mafic or calcareous rocks)
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Mad-dog Skullcap
Look for it in alluvial forests, bogs, seeps, marshes
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Rare in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Hyssop Skullcap, Narrow-leaved Skullcap
Look for it in wet pine savannas, seeps in forests, bottomlands, other moist sites
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in dry to mesic forests and woodlands
Uncommon in GA Mountains & NC Piedmont, rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Native to North Carolina
Look for it in longleaf pine sandhills, other dry sandy open woods or woodland margins.
Rare (an endemic)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Hoary Skullcap, Downy Skullcap
Look for it in dry to mesic forests and woodlands
Uncommon to rare (broadly endemic to Southern Appalachians)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Showy Skullcap, Serrate Skullcap
Look for it in rich forests
Uncommon in NC, rare in GA & SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Large-flowered Skullcap
Look for it in mesic hardwood (or hardwood-shortleaf pine) forests
Rare
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Hairy Skullcap, Elliptic-leaved Skullcap
Look for it in mesic to dry forests
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Hairy Skullcap
Look for it in mesic to dry forests
Uncommon
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
Look for it in sandy deciduous forests on river bluffs
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in sandy or rocky, dry forests
Rare
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
Common Name:
Heartleaf Skullcap
Look for it in mesic to submesic forests and woodlands
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Appalachian Skullcap, Blue Ridge Skullcap
Look for it in moist boulderfields at high elevations
Rare (endemic to the high Blue Ridge of w NC and e TN)
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Heartleaf Skullcap
Look for it in dry forests and woodlands, hammocks
Rare
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
Look for it in shale barrens and other dry woodlands
Uncommon
Native
Look for it in sandhills, dry sandy bluff forests
Rare
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
Look for it in bluff forests and other mesic hardwood forests
Rare
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
falseteeth skullcap
Look for it in rich, rocky forests
Rare (an endemic)
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Purple Giant-hyssop
Look for it in rich woodlands and forests, bottomlands
Uncommon (rare in GA)
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Yellow Giant-hyssop
Look for it in woodlands and forests, generally over calcareous or mafic rocks
Uncommon (rare in NC Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Meehania, Meehan's Mint
Look for it in moist, rocky, forested slopes
Rare in NC
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Catnip, Catmint
Look for it in fencerows, barnyards, disturbed areas
Uncommon in GA-NC-SC
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Ground Ivy, Gill-over-the-ground, Creeping Charlie
Look for it in lawns, gardens, disturbed areas
Common
Non-native: Eurasia
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Look for it in cultivated ground
Waif(s)
Native: western North America
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Common Name:
American Heal-all, American Self-heal, Lance Selfheal
Look for it in disturbed areas, pastures, roadsides, bottomland forests, other forests & woodlands
Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Eurasian Self-heal, Eurasian Heal-all
Look for it in disturbed areas, pastures, roadsides, bottomland forests, other forests & woodlands
Rare
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Northern Obedient-plant, False Dragonhead, Obedient-plant
Look for it on streambanks, seepages, marshes, grassy balds (native occurrences usually over mafic or calcareous rocks), other open or semi-open moist to wet habitats, disturbed areas, ditches
Rare as a native, more common as an escape from cultivation
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Southern Obedient-plant
Look for it in woodlands, glades, seepages, esp over calcareous or mafic rock
Common (uncommon in GA Mountains & Piedmont, and in NC Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Savanna Obedient-plant, Eastern False Dragonhead
Look for it in wet savannas, savanna-swamp ecotones, ditches adjacent to former pinelands
Uncommon in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Tidal Marsh Obedient-plant, Swamp Obedient-plant, Narrowleaf Obedient-plant, Slenderleaf False Dragonhead
Look for it in bottomland hardwood forests, swamps, tidal freshwater or slightly brackish (oligohaline) marshes, rarely wet savannas (GA)
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in calcareous openings
Rare
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Carolina Birds-in-a-nest, Carolina Macbridea, Carolina Bogmint
Look for it in swamp forests, esp in sphagnous seepage areas away from direct flooding, savanna edges, ditches
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in moist, rich forests
Rare (a broad Appalachian endemic)
Native to North Carolina
Uncommon in NC Mountains & Piedmont, rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Non-native: central Asia
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Common Name:
Henbit
Look for it in lawns, fields, roadsides, disturbed areas, gardens, pastures
Common
Non-native: Eurasia & northern Africa
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Common Name:
Purple Deadnettle, Red Deadnettle
Look for it in lawns, fields, roadsides, disturbed areas, pastures
Common (rare in GA Coastal Plain)
Non-native: Eurasia
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Look for it in lawns, fields, roadsides, disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Florida Betony, Rattlesnake-weed, Florida Hedgenettle
Look for it in disturbed sites, on roadsides
Uncommon
Native: Florida (& possibly to GA Coastal Plain)
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Look for it in moist soils of savannas, marshes, seasonally flooded sinkhole ponds, roadside ditches
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in floodplain forests
Rare
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Roughleaf Hedgenettle, Rough Hedgenettle
Look for it in moist or wet sandy soil of savannas, marshes, or swamp forests
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Epling's Hedgenettle
Look for it in mesic forests, bogs, wet meadows over calcareous or mafic substrates
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Clingman's Hedgenettle
Look for it in cove forests, esp periglacial boulderfields, mostly at high elevations
Rare, narrowly endemic to the Southern Appalachians
Native to North Carolina
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Look for it in moist forests, esp alluvial bottomlands or over calcareous rocks
Uncommon (rare in GA)
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Look for it in moist forests, especially alluvial bottomlands or over calcareous rocks (primarily montane but extending eatward)
Rare in GA & NC
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
Look for it in moist forests over calcareous or mafic rocks
Native: north of the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Broadtooth Hedgenettle
Look for it in mesic forests in coves & on mountain slopes, mountain pastures & forest edges
Common in NC, rare in GA-SC, endemic to the Southern Appalachians
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Smooth Hedgenettle
Look for it in wooded alluvial river bottoms, swamp forests, and roadsides
Rare in NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas
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