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Your search found 10 taxa in the family Rhamnaceae, Buckthorn family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Carolina Supplejack, American Rattan, Rattan-vine, Alabama Supplejack
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Berchemia scandens FAMILY: Rhamnaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Berchemia scandens FAMILY: Rhamnaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Berchemia scandens 119-01-001 FAMILY: Rhamnaceae
Habitat: Swamp forests, bottomlands, streambanks, also upland in mesic to even xeric forests, woodlands, glades, and prairies over calcareous rock or sediment
Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Common New Jersey Tea, Redroot, Northeastern Ceanothus
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Ceanothus americanus var. americanus FAMILY: Rhamnaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Ceanothus americanus FAMILY: Rhamnaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Ceanothus americanus 119-02-001 FAMILY: Rhamnaceae
Habitat: Woodland borders, dry woodlands, glady openings, dry ridge forests and woodlands (pine or oak) in the Mountains
Common in Mountains & Piedmont (uncommon in NC Coastal Plain, rare in Coastal Plain of GA & SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name: Southeastern New Jersey Tea, Southeastern Ceanothus
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Ceanothus americanus var. intermedius FAMILY: Rhamnaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Ceanothus americanus FAMILY: Rhamnaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Ceanothus americanus 119-02-001? FAMILY: Rhamnaceae
Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, dry sandy woodlands and forests, rocky openings around granitic or quartzitic rocks in the Piedmont
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)
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Common Name: Prairie Redroot, Prairie Ceanothus
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Ceanothus herbaceus FAMILY: Rhamnaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Ceanothus herbaceus FAMILY: Rhamnaceae
Habitat: Prairies, glades, upland woodlands, eastwards in flood-scoured rocky and/or sandy riverbanks
Native: primarily midwestern US, disjunct eastward
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Common Name:
Carolina Buckthorn, Polecat-tree, Indian Currant, Indian-cherry
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Frangula caroliniana FAMILY: Rhamnaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Frangula caroliniana FAMILY: Rhamnaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Rhamnus caroliniana 119-04-001 FAMILY: Rhamnaceae
Habitat: Dry to moist barrens, woodlands, and forests, Coastal Plain limestone bluffs and shell middens, especially over mafic or calcareous rocks
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain) (rare in NC Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Glossy Buckthorn, European Alder-buckthorn
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Frangula alnus FAMILY: Rhamnaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Frangula alnus FAMILY: Rhamnaceae
Habitat: Forested areas, other disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name: Common Buckthorn, European Buckthorn
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Rhamnus cathartica FAMILY: Rhamnaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Rhamnus cathartica FAMILY: Rhamnaceae
Habitat: Disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: Eurasia
Common Name: Dahurian Buckthorn, Davurian Buckthorn
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Rhamnus davurica FAMILY: Rhamnaceae
INCLUDING PLANTS National Database: Rhamnus davurica ssp. davurica FAMILY: Rhamnaceae
Habitat: Suburban woodlands, fields, floodplains, rarely naturalized but potentially very invasive
Rare
Non-native: east Asia (northern China)
Common Name:
Shell-mound Buckthorn, Small-flowered Buckthorn, Smallflower Mock-buckthorn
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Sageretia minutiflora FAMILY: Rhamnaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sageretia minutiflora FAMILY: Rhamnaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sageretia minutiflora 119-05-001 FAMILY: Rhamnaceae
Habitat: Shell middens and shell hammocks, dry calcareous hammocks and maritime forests
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Chinese Jujube, Common Jujube, Chinese Date
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Ziziphus jujuba FAMILY: Rhamnaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Ziziphus zizyphus FAMILY: Rhamnaceae
Habitat: Disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: Eurasia
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