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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.
Your search found 9 taxa in the family Lauraceae, Laurel family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.
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Common Name:
Upland Redbay
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Persea borbonia FAMILY: Lauraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Persea borbonia FAMILY: Lauraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Persea borbonia 084-01-001 FAMILY: Lauraceae
Look for it on dunes, in maritime forests, in dry sandy soils on barrier islands (known only north to Carteret County, NC). Becoming more rare with the destruction of most maritime and near coastal upland forests for the construction of vacation homes and tourist accomodations
Rare north of FL, becoming rarer
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Swamp Redbay
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Persea palustris FAMILY: Lauraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Persea palustris FAMILY: Lauraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Persea borbonia 084-01-001? FAMILY: Lauraceae
Look for it in swamps, pocosins, bay forests, maritime forests, generally in wet peaty soils, but also in fairly dry, sandy soils in maritime forests
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Sassafras
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Sassafras albidum FAMILY: Lauraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sassafras albidum FAMILY: Lauraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sassafras albidum 084-02-001 FAMILY: Lauraceae
Look for it in a wide variety of forests, old fields, disturbed areas, fencerows
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Pondspice
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Litsea aestivalis FAMILY: Lauraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Litsea aestivalis FAMILY: Lauraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Litsea aestivalis 084-03-001 FAMILY: Lauraceae
Look for it on margins of limesink ponds and Carolina bays, less commonly in wet depressions dominated by shrubs
Rare, endemic to the Southeastern Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Northern Spicebush, Wild Allspice
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Lindera benzoin FAMILY: Lauraceae
INCLUDING PLANTS National Database: Lindera benzoin var. benzoin FAMILY: Lauraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Lindera benzoin 084-04-001 FAMILY: Lauraceae
Look for it in rich alluvial forests, mesic forests on slopes with circumneutral soils, bottomlands, swamps
Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Spicebush, Pondberry
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Lindera melissifolia FAMILY: Lauraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Lindera melissifolia FAMILY: Lauraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Lindera melissaefolium 084-04-002 FAMILY: Lauraceae
Look for it in wet flats and depressions, generally with pocosin shrubs
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Bog Spicebush, Streamhead Spicebush
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Lindera subcoriacea FAMILY: Lauraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Lindera subcoriacea FAMILY: Lauraceae
Look for it in peaty seepage bogs in headwaters of blackwater streams, in the sandhills and immediately adjacent Piedmont, with other pocosin shrubs
Rare, apparently endemic to the Southeastern Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Dodder Laurel, Devil's Gut, Love-vine
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) - FAMILY: Lauraceae
PLANTS National Database: Cassytha filiformis FAMILY: Lauraceae
Native: south Florida
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Common Name:
Camphortree
Weakley's Flora: (2/8/20) Camphora officinarum FAMILY: Lauraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cinnamomum camphora FAMILY: Lauraceae
Look for it in disturbed areas, suburban woodlands, increasingly in natural forests
Common (uncommon in SC) (rare in GA Piedmont, rare in NC)
Non-native: east Asia
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