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Your search found 24 taxa in the family Oleaceae, Olive family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Carolina Ash, Water Ash, Pop Ash
Look for it in deeply to shallowly flooded swamps. It's a small tree, sometimes very abundant (and nearly the only subcanopy species) as the understory in Taxodium-Nyssa swamps
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
White Ash, American Ash
Look for it on mesic slopes, in rich cove forests, dryish calcareous or mafic glades & woodlands (with Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana and Carya glabra)
Common (rare in Coastal Plain of GA, NC, SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Biltmore Ash, Biltmore White Ash
Look for it on mesic slopes, in rich cove forests, dryish calcareous or mafic glades & woodlands (with Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana and Carya glabra)
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in swamps, esp along blackwater rivers & streams & in freshwater tidal wetlands, also in brownwater bottomlands
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Green Ash, Red Ash
Look for it in bottomlands & swamps, esp along brownwater rivers & streams
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Blue Ash
Look for it in mesic to dry calcareous woodlands & forests
Rare
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Swamp-privet
Look for it in swamp forests, esp over calcareous substrate
Uncommon
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Godfrey's Forestiera
Look for it on shell middens, in maritime forests over shell substrate
Rare
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Upland Swamp Privet, Southern-privet, Glade Privet, Upland Privet
Look for it in upland forests and slopes along streams, mostly on shell middens or calcareous rock
Uncommon in GA, rare in SC
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
Look for it in calcareous scrub, shell middens, maritime forests and thickets
Rare
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Fringetree, Grancy Graybeard, Old Man's Beard, Grandsir-graybeard
Look for it in dry, mesic, or wet forests & woodlands, granitic flatrocks & domes, glades & barrens over various rocks (including granite, greenstone, etc.), swamp forests in the Coastal Plain, rarely pocosins
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Devilwood, Wild Olive
Look for it in maritime forests and (in FL, GA, SC, and extreme s. NC) hammocks and other dry, sandy forests well inland; reported southwards for wet habitats as well
Common in GA & SC (uncommon in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Fragrant Tea Olive
Non-native
Common Name:
Amur Privet
Look for it in disturbed places
Rare
Non-native: Japan
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Common Name:
Japanese Privet
Look for it in disturbed places
Rare
Non-native: Japan & Korea
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Common Name:
California Privet
Look for it in disturbed places
Rare
Non-native: Japan
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Common Name:
Chinese Privet
Look for it in moist forests, esp alluvial bottomlands
Common
Non-native: China
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Common Name:
Glossy Privet, Broadleaf Privet
Look for it in disturbed places
Rare
Non-native: China, Japan & Korea
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Common Name:
Border Privet
Look for it in disturbed places
Rare
Non-native: Japan
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Common Name:
European Privet, Common Privet
Look for it in disturbed places
Common (rare in NC)
Non-native: Europe & northern Africa
Look for it in waste places, vacant lots, suburban woodlands
Rare, commonly planted and persistent, rarely escaping
Non-native: China
Look for it in waste places, vacant lots, suburban woodlands
Rare, commonly planted and persistent, rarely escaping
Non-native: China
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Common Name:
Winter Jasmine
Look for it to be cultivated and rarely persistent or spreading
Rare
Non-native: China
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Common Name:
Common Lilac, French Lilac
Look for it to be persistent and naturalizing around old farms
Rare
Non-native: Europe
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