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Your search found 34 taxa in the family Onagraceae, Evening Primrose family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Wingstem Water-primrose, Wingleaf Primrose-willow
Look for it in swamp forests, ditches
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Water-willow, Primrose Willow, Anglestem Primrose-willow
Look for it on riverbanks, in marshes, & ditches
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont & Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Showy Water-primrose, Large-flower Water-primrose
Look for it in ponds, lakes, sluggish waters of ditches or streams
Uncommon in Coastal Plain, rare in Piedmont
Non-native
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Common Name:
Common Water-primrose
Look for it in ponds, lakes, sluggish waters of ditches or streams
Uncommon in Coastal Plain of NC-SC, rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Non-native
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Common Name:
Savanna Seedbox, Slender Seedbox
Look for it in wet savannas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Harper's Seedbox, Seaside Seedbox
Look for it in pine savannas, pine flatwoods, bogs
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Rafinesque's Seedbox
Look for it in savannas, rarely in mountain bogs
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont & Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Alternate-leaf Seedbox, Bushy Seedbox
Look for it in ditches, marshes, open wet places, disturbed wet places
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Shrubby Seedbox
Look for it in periodically to seasonally flooded portions of limesink ponds (dolines) and clay-based Carolina bays
Common (rare in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Pondshore Seedbox, piedmont primrose-willow, Needleleaf Ludwigia
Look for it in marshes or submerged in water of natural Coastal Plain ponds
Uncommon
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Look for it on pondshores, blackwater rivers, interdunal swales, borrow ponds, ditches, impoundments, marshes
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Creeping Seedbox
Look for it in ditches, pools, and streams
Uncommon in Coastal Plain, rare in Piedmont
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Common Water-purslane, Marsh Purslane, Marsh Seedbox
Look for it moist to wet disturbed areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Common Evening Primrose
Look for it in fields, pastures, roadsides, disturbed areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Beach Evening Primrose, Drummond's Evening Primrose
Look for it on sandy ocean beaches, disturbed areas
Rare, perhaps only introduced or adventive from the Gulf Coast
Native: Gulf state(s); occurrences in FL-SC-NC are also plausible as native
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Common Name:
Dunes Evening Primrose, Seabeach Evening Primrose, Spreading Evening Primrose
Look for it on coastal sand dunes
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Cutleaf Evening Primrose
Look for it in disturbed areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Showy Evening Primrose, White Evening Primrose, Pink-ladies, Pink Evening Primrose
Look for it on roadsides & in fields, also cultivated as an ornamental
Common (rare in Mountains)
Native: west of the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in bogs, sphagnous seeps, moist fields
Rare in NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Southern Sundrops, Narrowleaf Sundrops
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Riverbank Evening Primrose, Riverbank Sundrops
Look for it in tidal marshes
Rare
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Northern Sundrops, Appalachian Sundrops
Look for it in dry (or moist, depending on variety) forests & woodlands, roadsides, or (depending on variety) dry sandy soils
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia?
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Look for it in shale barrens and woodlands
Uncommon
Native north of the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Stemless Evening Primrose
Look for it in limestone glades (in GA), blackbelt prairies
Rare
Native to Georgia
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Look for it in bogs, fens, seepages, and boggy meadows
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Great Willowherb, Fireweed
Look for it on grassy balds, roadsides, montane fields, burned areas, disturbed areas
Rare in NC
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Purpleleaf Willowherb, Bronze Willowherb, Eastern Willowherb
Look for it in seepages, moist open places
Common in NC Mtns, uncommon in SC Mtns & NC Pdmt, rare elsewhere
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in bogs, seeps, disturbed wet places (such as moist edges of logging roads)
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Threadstalk Gaura, Slenderstalk Beeblossom
Look for it in sandy fields, disturbed areas, and clearings
Common
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Biennial Gaura, Northeastern Gaura, Morning Honeysuckle, Biennial Beeblossom
Look for it on roadsides, woodlands, streambanks, fields, disturbed areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southeastern Gaura, Southern Beeblossom
Look for it in open woodlands, sandy fields, roadsides, primarily in the outer Coastal Plain
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Canada Enchanter's Nightshade
Look for it in mesic, nutrient-rich forests
Common in NC & in GA Mountains (uncommon to rare southward)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Alpine Enchanter's Nightshade, Smaller Enchanter's Nightshade
Look for it in moist organic soil at high elevations (esp in spruce-fir and northern hardwood forests), rocky or gravelly seepages, in spray behind waterfalls, at dripping cliff bases
Uncommon
Native to North Carolina
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