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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.
Your search found 11 taxa in the family Lythraceae, Loosestrife family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Toothcup, Lowland Rotala
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Rotala ramosior FAMILY: Lythraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Rotala ramosior FAMILY: Lythraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Rotala ramosior 135-01-001 FAMILY: Lythraceae
Look for it in marshes, ditches, exposed drawdown muds and silts
Common (uncommon in GA & NC Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Roundleaf Toothcup, Dwarf Rotala
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Rotala rotundifolia FAMILY: Lythraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Rotala rotundifolia FAMILY: Lythraceae
Look for it in disturbed wet areas
Rare
Non-native: Asia
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Common Name:
Red Toothcup, Scarlet Toothcup, valley redstem
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Ammannia coccinea FAMILY: Lythraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Ammannia coccinea FAMILY: Lythraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Ammannia coccinea 135-02-001 FAMILY: Lythraceae
Look for it in marshes, ditches, exposed muddy river shores and banks, wet pine flatwoods, other wet places
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name: Water-purslane
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Didiplis diandra FAMILY: Lythraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Didiplis diandra FAMILY: Lythraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Peplis diandra 135-03-001 FAMILY: Lythraceae
Look for it in stagnant water of pools, streams, and old beaverponds
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Water-oleander, Water-willow, Swamp Loosestrife, Peatweed
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Decodon verticillatus FAMILY: Lythraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Decodon verticillatus FAMILY: Lythraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Decodon verticillatus 135-04-001 FAMILY: Lythraceae
Look for it in natural lakes, limesink ponds, peatlands, peaty swamps, not known in the Piedmont or Mountains of NC or SC
Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Purple Loosestrife
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Lythrum salicaria FAMILY: Lythraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Lythrum salicaria FAMILY: Lythraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Lythrum salicaria 135-05-002 FAMILY: Lythraceae
Look for it in swamps, marshes, other wet places
Rare here, but aggressively colonizing wetlands in ne US
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Northern Winged Loosestrife
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Lythrum alatum FAMILY: Lythraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Lythrum alatum var. alatum FAMILY: Lythraceae
Look for it in calcareous meadows, marl fens, and disturbed wet calcareous places
Rare
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Clammy Cuphea, Blue Waxweed
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Cuphea viscosissima FAMILY: Lythraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cuphea viscosissima FAMILY: Lythraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Cuphea viscosissima 135-06-001 FAMILY: Lythraceae
Look for it in dry or wet places, especially over mafic or calcareous rocks
Uncommon in NC, rare in GA-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Colombian Waxweed
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Cuphea carthagenensis FAMILY: Lythraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cuphea carthagenensis FAMILY: Lythraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISSPELLED) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Cuphea carthagensis 135-06-002 FAMILY: Lythraceae
Look for it in marshes, ditches, floodplain forests, wet hammocks, other wet places
Common (rare in Piedmont)
Non-native: South America
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Common Name:
Crape-myrtle
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Lagerstroemia indica FAMILY: Lythraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Lagerstroemia indica FAMILY: Lythraceae
Look for it where it is persistent around old plantings, weakly spreading
Rare in the wild, commonly cultivated, persistent & weakly spreading
Non-native: Asia
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Common Name: European Water Chestnut, Water Caltrop
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Trapa natans FAMILY: Lythraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Trapa natans FAMILY: Trapaceae
Look for it in farm ponds and other stagnant or slow-moving water
Rare
Non-native: Eurasia & Africa
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