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Your search found 19 taxa.
Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.
Common Name:
Annual Phlox, Drummond Phlox
Look for it in dry sandy soils of roadsides, fields, disturbed areas
Common (rare in Piedmont)
Native: Texas
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Common Name:
Pineland Phlox, Trailing Phlox
Look for it . Ssp. nivalis occurs in sandhills, other dry woodlands; ssp. heintzii on rock outcrops, thin soils of rocky woodlands; both on roadbanks
Common, uncommon, or rare - depending on subspecies and physiographic province
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Moss Phlox, Mountain-pink, "Thrift"
Look for it on dry & exposed rock outcrops, rocky flood-scoured riversides, dry woodlands over a wide variety of rocks, shale barrens
Rare south of VA
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Eastern Blue Phlox, Timber Phlox, Blue Woodland Phlox, Wild Blue Phlox
Look for it in moist deciduous forests in circumneutral soils
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Hairy Phlox, Chalice Phlox
Look for it in dry woodlands & forests, roadbanks, sandhills
Common (uncommon in NC-SC Piedmont, rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Downy Phlox
Look for it in dry to mesic woodlands and forests, roadbanks
Common in NC-SC (rare in GA)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Creeping Phlox
Look for it in moist forests
Uncommon (rare in Piedmont, rare in GA)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Mountain Phlox, Appalachian Phlox, Allegheny Phlox
Look for it in moist forests, woodlands, woodland borders, and barrens
Common (rare south of NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Carolina Phlox, Thick-leaf Phlox, Giant Phlox
Look for it in forests, woodlands, woodland borders, barrens
Common (uncommon in Coastal Plain of GA & NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Smooth Phlox
Look for it in wet forests and woodlands, esp bottomlands
Common (uncommon in Coastal Plain, uncommon in NC, rare in NC Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Leafy Meadow Phlox, Wild Sweet William
Look for it in moist forests and openings
Uncommon in Mountains & NC Piedmont, rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Northern Meadow Phlox
Look for it in moist forests and openings
Uncommon in NC, rare in SC
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Broadleaf Phlox, Largeleaf Phlox
Look for it in moist forests, particularly over mafic rocks
Rare
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Garden Phlox, Summer Phlox, Fall Phlox, Smooth Phlox
Look for it on streambanks, in moist forests, woodlands & woodland borders
Common (rare in Coastal Plain & Piedmont south of VA)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it on cliffs, rock outcrops, dry rocky or sandy sites
Rare
Native north and west of the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in shale woodlands and woodland edges, shaley roadbanks
Rare
Native north of the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Spreading Jacob's Ladder, Creeping Jacob's-ladder, Greek Valerian
Look for it in moist, nutrient-rich forests, such as bottomlands & rich slopes
Uncommon (rare in GA, NC)
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Appalachian Jacob's Ladder
Look for it in calcareous fens, swamps, and streambanks
Rare
Native: north of the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Standing-cypress, Spanish-larkspur
Look for it in sandhills, sand rims of Carolina bays, dolomitic glades and woodlands, dunes, roadbanks, disturbed areas. Spread from cultivation into Piedmont & Mountains of GA & NC
Rare (uncommon in GA Piedmont)
Native to the Coastal Plain of the Carolinas & Georgia
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