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Your search found 40 taxa in the family Polygonaceae, Smartweed family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Sandhill Wild-buckwheat, Southern Wild-buckwheat, Dog-tongue Buckwheat
Look for it in sandhills, usually in white sand, primarily in the fall-line Sandhills and on riverine dunes in the middle and upper Coastal Plain
Uncommon (rare in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Sheep Sorrel, Sourgrass, Red Sorrel, Field Sorrel
Look for it in pastures, fields, roadsides, rock outcrops, grassy balds, gardens
Common (uncommon in GA Piedmont & Coastal Plain)
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Wild Dock, Sourgrass, Heartwing Sorrel, Heartwing Dock
Look for it in fields (especially sandy fields in the Coastal Plain), roadsides, disturbed areas
Common (uncommon in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name:
Patience Dock, Monk's-rhubarb
Look for it in disturbed areas
Waif(s)
Non-native: Mediterranean Europe
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Common Name:
Curly Dock
Look for it in disturbed areas, pastures, fields
Common
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Fiddle Dock
Look for it in disturbed areas, bottomland fields, bottomland forests
Uncommon in GA-NC-SC, rare in Mountains & NC Piedmont
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Bitter Dock, Broadleaf Dock
Look for it in pastures, barnyards, disturbed areas
Common (uncommon in SC Coastal Plain, rare in GA Piedmont)
Non-native: Europe
Look for it in disturbed areas
Waif(s)
Non-native: Mediterranean Europe
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Common Name:
Jumpseed
Look for it in floodplains, moist forests
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Erect Knotweed
Look for it in bottomland forests, streambanks, disturbed areas, open places
Rare
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Prostrate Knotweed
Look for it in disturbed areas
Uncommon
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Water Smartweed, Scarlet Smartweed
Look for it in marshes, wet disturbed areas
Rare
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Dense-flower Smartweed
Look for it in swamp forests
Uncommon in Coastal Plain, rare in Piedmont
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Pennsylvania Smartweed, Pinkweed
Look for it in disturbed areas, bottomlands
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Dockleaf Smartweed, Willow-weed, Pale Smartweed
Look for it in bottomlands, bottomland fields, disturbed areas
Uncommon in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in barnyards, disturbed areas, garden edges
Rare
Non-native: Eurasia
Look for it in pondcypress savannas, depression ponds in pinelands
Uncommon in GA & SC Coastal Plain, rare in NC, endemic
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in wet pastures, barnyards, ditches
Common in Mtns & throughout NC & northward, rare in GA & SC Piedmont
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Longbristle Smartweed, Bristly Lady's-thumb, Tufted Knotweed, Oriental Lady's-thumb
Look for it in disturbed areas, ditches
Common
Non-native: Asia
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Common Name:
Spotted Lady's-thumb, Heart's-ease
Look for it in disturbed areas
Common (uncommon GA Piedmont & Coastal Plain)
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Dotted Smartweed
Look for it in swamp forests, bottomlands, marshes
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Mild Waterpepper, Swamp Smartweed
Look for it in swamp forests, streams, ditches
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Swamp Smartweed, Bog Smartweed
Look for it in swamp forests, bottomland forests
Common (rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Arrowleaf Tearthumb, Arrowvine
Look for it in marshes, bogs, beaver impoundments, wet thickets
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Halberd-leaf Tearthumb
Look for it in marshes, wet thickets
Common (rare in GA)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it around rock outcrops, in openings, glades, & open woodlands at high elevations
Uncommon
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Climbing Buckwheat, Nimblewill, Black Bindweed
Look for it in disturbed areas
Common (rare in GA)
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Common Climbing Buckwheat
Look for it in moist to wet open habitats
Common in Mountains, uncommon elsewhere
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Crested Climbing Buckwheat, Climbing False Buckwheat
Look for it in moist to wet open habitats
Common (rare in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & possibly Georgia
Common Name:
Lace Vine, Silver-lace-vine, China Fleece-vine, Russian Vine
Look for it in disturbed areas, on roadsides
Rare
Non-native: Asia
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Common Name:
Japanese Knotweed
Look for it on roadsides, disturbed areas, riverbanks and sandbars, often forming dense thickets
Uncommon in GA-NC-SC
Non-native: East Asia
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Common Name:
Giant Knotweed, Sachaline
Look for it in disturbed areas, on roadsides
Rare
Non-native: east Asia
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Common Name:
Himalayan Knotweed, Kashmir Plume, cultivated knotweed
Look for it to be persistent and spreading from plantings
Rare
Non-native: Himalayan Asia
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Common Name:
Asiatic Tearthumb, Mile-a-minute-weed, Mile-a-minute-vine
Look for it on roadsides, banks, powerline rights-of-way
Common, introduced and spreading rapidly
Non-native: east Asia
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Common Name:
Buckwheat
Look for it in fields, disturbed areas, railroad rights-of-way, escaped from cultivation
Rare
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Southern Jointweed, Showy Jointweed
Look for it in sandhills, other dry woodlands, glades, and barrens with sandy or rocky soil
Uncommon (rare in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
October-flower
Look for it in sandhills, primarily in the outer Coastal Plain north of SC
Common in Coastal Plain of NC & SC, rare in GA (an endemic)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Sandhill Jointweed, Fringed Thysanella
Look for it in sandhills
Rare
Native to Georgia (not far from SC)
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Look for it in floodpalin forests, swamp forests
Uncommon (rare north of Florida)
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Love-chain, Queen's-jewels, Confederate-vine, Corallita
Look for it to be commonly cultivated, rarely persisting or escaping
Rare
Non-native: tropical America
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