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Your search found 23 taxa in the family Primulaceae, Primrose family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Eastern Shooting Star
Look for it in rich forests, woodlands, & rock outcrops (primarily calcareous or mafic), esp with nutrient-rich seepage
Uncommon in GA Mountains, rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Fringed Loosestrife
Look for it in mesic forests, especially bottomlands and coves dominated by hardwoods
Common (rare in GA Coastal Plain, uncommon in SC Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Loosestrife, Appalachian Loosestrife
Look for it in moist to dry upland forests, especially over calcareous or mafic rocks
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Look for it in mesic to relatively dry forests, mafic and calcareous fens, bogs, forest edges, roadbanks, primarily on circumneutral soils
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain of GA & NC)(common in GA Mtns)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in mesic hardwood forests, sinkhole and depression ponds, wet meadows, other wet areas
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Grassleaf Yellow-loosestrife
Rare, an endemic
Native to Georgia & Alabama
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Common Name:
Prairie Loosestrife, Four-flower Loosestrife, Smooth Loosestrife
Look for it in wet meadows and calcareous fens, stream banks
Rare
Native to Georgia & possibly North Carolina
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Common Name:
Moneywort, Creeping Jenny, Creeping Charlie
Look for it in lawns, pastures, seepages, other moist disturbed places
Uncommon in NC-SC, rare in GA
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Fraser's Loosestrife
Look for it in hardwood forests, forest edges and roadbanks, thin soils around rock outcrops
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Garden Loosestrife
Look for it in disturbed bottomlands, marshes, disturbed areas
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Whorled Loosestrife
Look for it in wide variety of forests & openings, including pine savannas of the outer Coastal Plain, ranging from moist to very dry
Common (uncommon in NC-SC Coastal Plain and GA Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Swamp Candles, Bog-candles, Bog Loosestrife
Look for it in bogs, wet meadows & swamp forests
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain, rare in GA)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Carolina Loosestrife, Loomis's Loosestrife
Look for it in moist to wet savannas, pocosin ecotones
Uncommon (rare in GA), endemic to GA-NC-SC Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Pocosin Loosestrife, "Roughleaf Loosestrife"
Look for it in low pocosins, high pocosins, streamhead pocosins, savanna-pocosin ecotones, sandhill-pocosin ecotones
Rare, endemic to NC-SC Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Gooseneck Loosestrife
Look for it on roadsides
Rare, cultivated & rarely persistent or escaped
Non-native: Japan
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Look for it in disturbed areas
Waif(s)
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Northern Starflower, Maystar
Look for it in northern hardwood forests, rich slope forests, often in second-growth areas
Rare
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
Uncommon in NC, rare in GA, mixed in SC
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Chaffweed, False-pimpernel
Look for it in ditches, wet disturbed areas, savannas, pond margins
Uncommon in Coastal Plain, rare elsewhere
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Water-pimpernel, Brookweed
Look for it on streambanks, brackish marshes, pools in floodplains, interdune ponds
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Featherfoil, Water-violet
Look for it in slow-moving or stagnant waters of swamps, millponds, beaverponds, sag ponds, oxbows, rivers, probably dispersed by waterfowl
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Coral Ardisia, Hen's Eyes, Coralberry, Marlberry
Look for it in moist suburban forests, floodplains, mesic flatwoods
Uncommon (naturalized from horticultural use)
Non-native: Asia
Non-native: China/Japan
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