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Your search found 7 taxa in the family Myricaceae, Bayberry family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Sweet-fern
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Comptonia peregrina FAMILY: Myricaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Comptonia peregrina FAMILY: Myricaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Comptonia peregrina 052-01-001 FAMILY: Myricaceae
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
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Common Name:
Sweet-gale
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Myrica gale FAMILY: Myricaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Myrica gale FAMILY: Myricaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Gale palustris 052-02-001 FAMILY: Myricaceae
Look for it in peaty bogs
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Common Wax-myrtle, Southern Bayberry
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Morella cerifera FAMILY: Myricaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Morella cerifera FAMILY: Myricaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Myrica cerifera var. cerifera 052-03-001a FAMILY: Myricaceae
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
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Common Name:
Dwarf Wax-myrtle, Dwarf Bayberry
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Morella pumila FAMILY: Myricaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Morella cerifera FAMILY: Myricaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Myrica cerifera var. pumila 052-03-001b FAMILY: Myricaceae
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
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Common Name:
Northern Bayberry
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Morella pensylvanica FAMILY: Myricaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Morella pensylvanica FAMILY: Myricaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Myrica pensylvanica 052-03-002 FAMILY: Myricaceae
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
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Common Name:
Pocossin Bayberry, Evergreen Bayberry, Swamp Candleberry, Southern Bayberry
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Morella caroliniensis FAMILY: Myricaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Morella caroliniensis FAMILY: Myricaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Myrica heterophylla 052-03-003 FAMILY: Myricaceae
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
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Common Name:
Scentless Bayberry, Odorless Bayberry
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Morella inodora FAMILY: Myricaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Morella inodora FAMILY: Myricaceae
Look for it in acid wetlands, esp in wooded, acid, streamhead "bogs" and bayheads
Rare in GA
Native to Georgia
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