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Your search found 196 taxa in the family Rosaceae, Rose family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Wild Strawberry
Look for it in grasslands, roadsides, pastures, woodlands, grassy balds
Common (uncommon in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in dry rocky woodlands, boulderfields, fields, roadsides, clearings
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Indian Strawberry, Mock Strawberry
Look for it in disturbed areas, lawns, gardens
Common
Non-native: Asia
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Common Name:
Southern Barren Stawberry
Look for it in forests, on streambanks
Uncommon in Piedmont (rare in Coastal Plain & Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Northern Barren Strawberry
Look for it in forests, on streambanks
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Piedmont Barren Strawberry, Lobed Barren Strawberry
Look for it in forests, on streambanks
Rare (an endemic)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Dwarf Cinquefoil, Running Five-fingers
Look for it in woodlands, forests, fields, lawns, disturbed areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Old Field Cinquefoil, Old-field Five-fingers, Common Cinquefoil
Look for it in woodlands, fields, disturbed areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in disturbed areas
Rare in NC
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Rough-fruited Cinquefoil, Sulphur Cinquefoil, Sulphur Five-fingers
Look for it in disturbed areas
Common
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Strawberry-weed, Rough Cinquefoil, Norwegian Cinquefoil
Look for it in pastures, fields, disturbed areas, especially where moist
Common in Mountains, uncommon elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Native & non-native
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Common Name:
Wineleaf Cinqefoil, Mountain Cinqefoil, Three-toothed Cinqefoil, Mountain White Potentilla
Look for it on grassy balds, in crevices of rock outcrops at high (rarely moderate) elevations, high elevation glades
Rare, though sometimes very locally abundant
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Purple-flowering Raspberry, Thimbleberry
Look for it on moist roadsides, thickets & forests
Common
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Wineberry
Look for it on roadsides, in thickets
Common
Non-native: east Asia
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Common Name:
Red Raspberry, American Red Raspberry
Look for it in high elevation forests and thickets, adelgid-killed sruce-fir forests
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Black Raspberry
Look for it on roadsides, in woodlands, thickets, disturbed areas
Common in Mtns & NC Piedmont, rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
European Blackberry, Himalayan Blackberry, Himalaya-berry
Look for it in disturbed areas, roadsides, thickets, old fields
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain) (rare in GA) (rare in NC Mtns)
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Sand Blackberry
Look for it in woodlands, forests, disturbed areas
Common (rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Allegheny Blackberry
Look for it in forests, woodlands, grassy balds
Common
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Pennsylvania Blackberry, Highbush Blackberry, Southern Blackberry
Look for it on roadsides, in thickets, woodlands
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Thornless Blackberry, Smooth Blackberry
Look for it in forests, woodlands, grassy balds, esp common at high elevations
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in disturbed areas, thickets
Rare
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Common Dewberry, Northern Dewberry
Look for it in old fields, woodlands, roadsides, disturbed areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Swamp Dewberry
Look for it in bogs, moist woodlands and forests, disturbed moist areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Dewberry, Coastal Plain Dewberry
Look for it on roadsides, in old fields, thickets, disturbed areas
Common (rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Chesapeake Blackberry, Topsy Blackberry
Look for it in disturbed areas, thickets
Rare
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Robin-runaway, Star-violet, Dewdrop
Look for it in bog margins & mountain swamp forests, often along spring seeps, mostly in dense shade beneath Rhododendron maximum
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
White Avens
Look for it in moist slope forests, bottomland forests, swamp forests
Common (uncommon in SC Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Pale Avens, Cream Avens
Look for it in bottomland forests, moist slope forests, swamp forests, and extending upslope to mesic or even dry sites, especially over mafic rocks
Common in NC Mountains, uncommon or rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in fens and wet meadows, rich alluvial soil of bottomland forests, especially over calcareous or mafic rocks
Rare
Native to the Carolinas
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Look for it in floodplain forests, bogs, and boggy meadows
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Spring Avens
Look for it in seepages, swamps, roadsides, disturbed areas
Common in NC Mountains, uncommon or rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Bent Avens
Look for it in seeps, seepy boulderfield forests, grassy balds, cliff bases, banks of cool streams up to about 5m wide, at high to moderate elevations on Grandfather Mtn, the Roan Mtn massif, and Rich Mtn
Rare, though locally fairly common
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Mountain Avens, Appalachian Avens, Spreading Avens, Cliff Avens
Look for it on high elevation rocky summits, in thin soil at tops of cliffs & on ledges (where not trampled), in pockets of soil on nearly vertical portions of cliffs, in open grassy balds, around Rhododendron catawbiense in grassy balds, or in grassy areas at bases of cliffs (where succession by shrubs is prevented by accumulation of seepage ice & by stone fall)
Rare, narrowly endemic to NC-TN
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Parsley-piert, slender parsley piert
Look for it in lawns, fields, pastures, roadsides
Common
Non-native: Europe
Look for it in pinelands and disturbed areas associated with pinelands
Rare
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Agrimony, Small-flowered Agrimony, Harvestlice
Look for it in marshes, bottomland forests, wet pastures
Common (uncommon in GA Mountains & Piedmont) (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Common Agrimony
Look for it in mesic forests, thickets, marshes, bogs, wet meadows, wet forests, especially in base-rich substrates
Common in NC Mountains, rare elsewhere
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Woodland Agrimony
Look for it in moist to wet forests and woodlands, especially in base-rich soils
Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Downy Agrimony
Look for it in dry to moist forests and woodlands, especially in base-rich soils
Common (uncommon in SC Mtns) (rare in SC Pdmt) (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Low Agrimony, Small-fruited Agrimony
Look for it in dry to moist forests and woodlands
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in rich forests, floodplains, fields
Rare
Native: north & west of the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Salad Burnet, Garden Burnet, Fodder Burnet
Look for it in moist disturbed areas (escaped from herb and salad gardens)
Waif(s)
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Canada Burnet, American Burnet, White Burnet
Look for it in fens, seepage over mafic or ultramafic rocks (such as amphibolite, greenstone, serpentine), spray zones around waterfalls, other seepage wetlands, wet meadows
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Climbing Prairie Rose
Look for it on streambanks, in pastures
Rare
Native to North Carolina & Georgia, or some portions thereof
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Common Name:
Cherokee Rose
Look for it on roadsides, in moist forests
Common (rare in NC)
Non-native: China
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Common Name:
Multiflora Rose
Look for it in pastures, thickets, bottomlands, upland forests, bogs
Common
Non-native: Asia
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Common Name:
Memorial Rose, Dorothy Perkins Rose, Lucie Rose
Look for it on roadbanks, railroad embankments, disturbed areas
Uncommon
Non-native: east Asia
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Common Name:
McCartney Rose, Chickasaw Rose
Look for it in disturbed areas, suburban borders. It is persistent after cultivation
Rare in GA-NC-SC
Non-native
Look for it in disturbed areas (it can be persistent after cultivation)
Waif(s)
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Sweetbriar Rose, Eglantine Rose
Look for it in pastures, disturbed areas
Rare in GA-NC-SC
Non-native
Common Name:
Dog Rose
Look for it in pastures
Rare
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Swamp Rose
Look for it in swamp forests, bogs, streamsides
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Carolina Rose
Look for it in upland forests, woodlands, pastures, roadsides
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Virginia Rose
Look for it in moist to dry forests and woodlands
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Japanese Rose, Rugosa Rose, Beach Rose
Look for it on coastal dunes, disturbed areas, cultivated and sometimes escaped
Common north of Virginia
Non-native: Asia
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Common Name:
Queen-of-the-Prairie
Look for it in fens, wet meadows, seeps, over mafic or calcareous rocks
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Queen-of-the-Meadow, Meadowsweet
Look for it in disturbed areas. It is cultivated and sometimes escaped or persistent
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Bowman's Root, Mountain Indian Physic, Fawn's Breath
Look for it in moist forests, roadbanks, forest edges
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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