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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.
Look for it in dry open woods and barrens, in the mountains on xeric ridges at low to medium elevations, usually in fire-maintained habitats, also in xeric and fire-maintained habitats on monadnocks in the upper Piedmont and in dry, sandy sites in the lower Piedmont and fall-line sandhills
Common in NC Mountains, rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in peaty bogs
Rare
Native to North Carolina
Look for it in interdune swales (where often dominant), pocosins, brackish marshes, other wet to moist habitats, now also widely planted (including in the Piedmont) as an ornamental or landscaping shrub and preistent or naturalizing in suburban woodlands
Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere, where mostly introduced)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in savannas, pine flatwoods, relatively moist to extremely dry sites in sandhills (under Quercus laevis and Q. geminata)
Common, endemic to the Southeastern Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it on dunes, sometimes even on the foredune and stoloniferously colonizing the upper beach, more typically behind the foredune on secondary dunes and sandy flats, often growing intermixed with Morella cerifera, but able to occupy drier sites higher on the dunes
Uncommon in NC
Native to North Carolina
Look for it in pocosins, wet savannas and pine flatwoods, sandhill seepage bogs, and other peaty or sandy-peaty wetlands
Common (rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in acid wetlands, esp in wooded, acid, streamhead "bogs" and bayheads
Rare in GA
Native to Georgia
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