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Your search found 140 taxa.
Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Garden Asparagus, Sparrowgrass
Look for it to have escaped to fencerows, roadsides, disturbed areas
Commonly cultivated and escaped
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Sprenger’s Asparagus-fern, Emerald-fern
Look for it in disturbed areas, seeding down especially around plantings
Rare
Non-native: southern Africa
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Common Name:
Coastal Carrionflower, Bamboo-vine
Look for it in pocosins, swamp forests, edges of pine savannas
Uncommon (rare in GA), endemic to the Atlantic Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Midwestern Carrionflower
Look for it in moist deciduous forests, hammocks, bluff forests, pine-oak hickory submesic forests, perhaps only or primarily over mafic rocks
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Common Carrionflower, Smooth Carrionflower
Look for it in moist deciduous forests
Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain, rare in NC-SC Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name:
Downy Carrionflower
Look for it in moist deciduous to dry forests, esp over mafic or calcareous rocks
Common (rare in Coastal Plain, rare in GA)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Biltmore Carrionflower
Look for it in dry forests (such as dry pine ridges and chestnut oak forests) and moist forests
Rare (an endemic), primarily in Blue Ridge Escarpment region
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Huger's Carrionflower
Look for it in moist deciduous forests
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in forests
Native north and west of the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Common Greenbrier, Common Catbrier, Bullbrier, Horsebrier
Look for it in dry-mesic to mesic forests and woodlands, bottomland and riparian forests, swamps, pond margins, bluffs, flatwoods, prairies, old fields, fencerows, pastures, roadsides.
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Stretchberry, Fringed Greenbrier, Catbrier, Tramp's Trouble
Look for it in dry to mesic forests and woodlands, bottomland and riparian forests, bluffs, hardwood flatwoods, pine flatwoods, prairies, old fields, fencerows, pastures, roadsides (of various habitats, including wetlands)
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it on dunes, in maritime thickets, maritime forests (dry maritime habitats)
Uncommon in Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Bristly Greenbrier, Hellfetter, Chinaroot
Look for it in bottomland, riparian, and mesic upland forests
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Whiteleaf Greenbrier, Wild Sarsaparilla, Sawbrier
Look for it in dry to mesic forests and woodlands, bottomland and riparian forests, bluffs, hardwood flatwoods, pine flatwoods, prairies, old fields, fencerows, pastures, roadsides; uncommon in wetlands
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Coral Greenbrier, Red-berried Swamp Smilax
Look for it in swamp forests, bogs, woodland seeps, often where submersed for at least part of the year
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Dune Greenbrier
Look for it on dunes on barrier islands, in dry sandy openings in maritime forests or sandhills near the coast
Common in Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Bamboo-vine, Blaspheme-vine, Wild Bamboo, Laurel-leaf Greenbriar
Look for it in pocosins, swamp forests, wooded seeps and bogs, swamps, and other wetlands, often with groundwater influence
Common in Coastal Plain (rare Piedmont & Mtns), primarily endemic to Southeastern Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Jackson-brier, Unarmed Catbrier, Sweet-scented Smilax
Look for it in bottomland and riparian forests, upland forests, hardwood flatwoods, pine flatwoods, wooded seeps, stream banks, roadsides
Uncommon (rare in Carolina Mountains, common GA Coastal Plain))
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Dwarf Smilax, Sarsaparilla-vine
Look for it in mesic to dryish hammocks and bluffs, sandy forests along streams; northward primarily in maritime-influenced mainland forests
Common in Coastal Plain (an endemic)
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Look for it in rich, mesic, deciduous forests
Rare
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Decumbent Trillium, Trailing Trillium
Look for it in moist forests
Uncommon in GA, an endemic (should be sought in extreme sw. NC)
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Relict Trillium
Look for it in rich forests on bluffs and ravine slopes
Rare, an endemic
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Little Sweet Betsy, Purple Toadshade
Look for it in rich soils of cove forests, moist slopes, & bottomlands, usually over mafic or calcareous rocks
Common to uncommon, locally abundant (rare in SC Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Chattahoochee Trillium, Deceptive Trillium
Look for it in moist forests
Uncommon in GA, rare in SC (an endemic)
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Look for it in rich forests, in NC limited to very rich soils of natural levees and lower slopes along the Roanoke River
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Underwood's Trillium
Look for it in moist forests
Uncommon
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Yellow Trillium, Yellow Toadshade, Lemon-scented Trillium, Wax Trillium
Look for it in moist coves over mafic or calcareous rocks, locally abundant in the vicinity of the Great Smokies
Locally abundant in the vicinity of the Great Smokies, uncommon to rare elsewhere. Nearly endemic to the Southern Appalachians
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Mottled Trillium, Spotted Trillium
Look for it in rich forests and floodplains, over calcareous materials such as coquina limestone ("marl") or on shell middens
Uncommon in Coastal Plain, rare in Piedmont (an endemic)
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Look for it in rich forests
Rare, endemic to the Lookout Mountain region of nw. GA, se. TN & ne. AL
Native to Georgia
Look for it in floodplains, streambanks, ravine forests
Native: west of Georgia
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Common Name:
Pale Yellow Trillium, Faded Trillium, Small Yellow Toadshade, Savannah River Trillium
Look for it in rich cove and bluff forests, restricted to the Savannah River drainage
Uncommon in SC, rare elsewhere (an endemic)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Twisted Trillium, Helicopter Trillium
Look for it in floodplains, on slopes, especially over limestone
Native: west of the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Lanceleaf Trillium, Narrowleaf Trillium
Look for it in rich forests over marble, limestone, and other calcareous substrates, floodplain forests
Rare
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Look for it in rich bottomland forests
Rare, endemic to SC's Kershaw-Richland counties along Wateree River, apparently
Native to South Carolina
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Common Name:
Prairie Trillium, Prairie Wake-robin, Recurved Trillium
Look for it in rich soils of cove over calcareous rock
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Northern Nodding Trillium
Look for it im moist rich woods, seepage edges, damp forests with Fraxinus nigra and Ulmus americana, on mafic or calcareous substrates
Rare
Native: north of the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Southern Nodding Trillium
Look for it in rich woodlands and forests over mafic or calcareous rocks
Uncommon (rare in NC Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Red Trillium, Purple Trillium, Stinking Willie, Stinking Benjamin
Look for it on wooded slopes, usually at middle to high elevations
Common in Mountains, rare in Piedmont
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
White-flowered Red Trillium
Look for it on wooded slopes, usually at low elevations
Rare overall, but common in and around Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Red Trillium, Barksdale's Trillium
Look for it in coves and on moist slopes
Uncommon (rare in GA)
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Vasey's Trillium, Sweet Trillium, Sweet Beth
Look for it in cove forests, other rich forests
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain), endemic to Southern Appalachians
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in rich forests
Rare (an endemic)
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Bent Trillium, Bent White Trillium, Bentstalk Trillium, Drooping Trillium
Look for it in moist coves over mafic or calcareous rocks
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Sweet White Trillium, Confusing Trillium, Jeweled Trillium
Look for it in very rich soils of slopes and coves over mafic or calcareous rocks, often also in or near seepage
Rare, endemic to the Southern Appalachians
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Catesby's Trillium, Rosy Wake-robin, Bashful Trillium, Rose Trillium
Look for it in bottomland forests, mesic slopes, cove forests
Common (uncommon in Mountains, rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Large-flowered Trillium, Great White Trillium, White Wake-robin, Showy Wake-robin
Look for it in rich coves and mesic slopes, also less typically on ridges over "rich" rock types
Common (rare in SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Persistent Trillium, Edna's Trillium
Look for it in acidic forests with hemlocks and heaths
Rare, endemic to a portion of Tallulah-Tugaloo river system in nw. SC & ne. GA
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Carolina Least Trillium, Virginia Dwarf Trillium, Aiken Least Trillium
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Painted Trillium, Striped Wake-robin
Look for it in acidic soils of ridges, slopes, and bog margins, mostly at high elevations and often associated with Rhododendron, Tsuga, Pinus, or Picea
Common in Mountains (rare in SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Indian Cucumber-root
Look for it in moist forests, usually with acidic soils
Common (uncommon in GA Piedmont, rare in GA Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Bluebead-lily, Clinton's Lily, Yellow Clintonia, Yellow Bead Lily
Look for it in spruce-fir forests, northern hardwood forests, less commonly in red oak forests
Common (rare in GA)
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Speckled Wood-lily, White Clintonia
Look for it in red oak & other oak forests, mesic to dry ridges & slopes, less commonly in northern hardwood forests, generally at lower elevations than C. borealis, though the two species can co-occur
Common (uncommon in GA-SC), endemic to the Appalachians
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
False Solomon's Seal, Eastern Solomon's Plume, May-plume
Look for it in forests
Common (uncommon in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Starry Solomon's Seal, Starry Solomon's Plume, Starflower
Rare
Native north of the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Canada Mayflower, False Lily-of-the-valley, Wild Lily-of-the-valley
Look for it in moist forests, esp at high elevations
Common
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Yellow Mandarin, Yellow Fairybells
Look for it in deciduous forests, esp coves
Common (primarily in the Appalachians)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Nodding Mandarin, Spotted Mandarin
Look for it in nutrient-rich deciduous forests, esp cove forests
Rare, its distribution fragmented
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Rosy Twisted-stalk, Eastern Rose Mandarin, Eastern Twisted-stalk
Look for it in moist forests at high elevations, especially spruce-fir and northern hardwoods forests
Uncommon (rare in GA)
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
Common Name:
Clasping Twisted-stalk, White Mandarin, Pagoda-bells
Look for it in moist forests and seepages at high elevations
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Hairy Solomon's Seal, Downy Solomon’s Seal
Look for it in moist forests, especially cove forests, but also in montane oak forests
Common in Mountains
Native to Georgia, North Carolina, & possibly South Carolina
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