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Your search found 19 taxa.
Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Gaywings, Fringed Polygala
Look for it in moist forests, mostly at moderate to high elevations
Common (rare in SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Racemed Milkwort, Southern Bitter Milkwort
Look for it in sandhills, woodlands, woodland borders
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Showy Milkwort
Look for it in sandhills, dry sandy soils of roadsides and fields
Common (rare in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Seneca Snakeroot
Look for it in woodlands and openings, especially over calcareous or mafic rocks
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Field Milkwort, Blood Milkwort
Look for it in woodlands, openings, woodland borders
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in bogs, pine savannas, other open wet habitats
Common (rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Curtiss's Milkwort, Appalachian Milkwort
Look for it in mafic barrens, old fields, thickets, openings
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Whorled Milkwort
Look for it in dry woodlands, woodland borders, openings, fields
Native
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Alternate Milkwort, Loose Milkwort, Whorled Milkwort
Look for it in fields, woodlands, openings
Common in Mountains, uncommon in Piedmont & Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Boykin's Milkwort
Look for it in longleaf pine flatwoods and savannas, seeps, prairies
Rare
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Drumheads, Crossleaf Milkwort
Look for it in bogs, damp or wet soil in openings
Common (uncommon in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Hooker's Milkwort
Look for it in pine savannas
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Pink Milkwort, Procession Flower
Look for it in pine savannas, woodlands, fields
Common (rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in pine flatwoods and bogs
Uncommon
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Orange Milkwort, Red-hot-poker, Candyroot
Look for it in wet savannas, ditches, bogs, other wet areas
Common (rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Dwarf Milkwort, Candyroot
Look for it in longleaf pine flatwoods, other open moist areas
Common in GA Coastal Plain (rare & possibly introduced elsewhere in NC-SC-GA)
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Short Pinebarren Milkwort, Low Pinebarren Milkwort, Dwarf Milkwort, Savanna Milkwort
Look for it in wet savannas, pocosin margins, bogs
Common (rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Tall Milkwort, Tall Pinebarren Milkwort
Look for it in pond cypress savannas, Coastal Plain depression ponds, clay-based Carolina bays, other sites with seasonally flooded hydrology
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in wet pine savannas, marl prairies
Rare
Native to Georgia
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