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Your search found 5 taxa in the family Nyssaceae, Sourgum family, as understood by Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Blackgum, Black Tupelo, Sour Gum
Look for it in dry or mesic upland forests, less commonly in bottomlands, pine savannas, or upland deressions, where occasionally inundated briefly
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Swamp Tupelo, Swamp Blackgum, Swamp Gum, Water Gum
Look for it in blackwater river swamps, depressions in pinelands, pocosins, either where inundated for substantial periods of time or in more-or-less permanently saturated peaty soils
Common (rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Bear Tupelo, Apalachicola Tupelo
Look for it in stringers, flatwoods depressions
Rare, endemic to the FL Panhandle
Native: Florida
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Common Name:
Water Tupelo, Cotton Gum, Tupelo Gum
Look for it in river swamps, where inundated for substantial periods of time
Common (rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Ogeechee Tupelo, Ogeechee Lime, Ogeechee Plum
Look for it in river swamps and wet forests with peaty soils, also in upland depression ponds
Common (rare in SC), endemic to the Southeastern Coastal Plain
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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