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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.
Your search found 47 taxa in the family Rubiaceae, Bedstraw or Madder family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Fevertree, Pinkneya
Look for it in margins of acidic, peaty (blackwater) swamps
Common in GA, rare in SC
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Buttonbush
Look for it on streambanks, riverbanks, depressional wetlands, lakes, often in standing water
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Virginia Buttonweed
Look for it on pondshores, in ditches, other moist to wet habitats
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Poor-joe, Rough Buttonweed
Look for it on dunes, sandy roadsides, glades, hardpans, other dry habitats
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
woodland false buttonweed
Look for it in wet hammocks, bottomland forests, marshes
Rare
Native to Georgia
Common Name:
Shrubby Buttonweed, Whitehead Broom, Boton Blanco
Look for it in disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: New World tropics
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Common Name:
Brazilian-clover, tropical Mexican-clover
Look for it on roadsides, fields, vacant lots, urban areas, disturbed areas
Common (uncommon in Carolina Piedmont)
Non-native: South America
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Common Name:
Rough Mexican-clover
Look for it in roadsides, fields, vacant lots, urban areas, disturbed areas
Common in Coastal Plain, uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Mountains
Non-native? South America
Look for it in disturbed areas
Rare. Reported just south of our area and "rapidly spreading"
Non-native: South America (mainly Brazil)
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Common Name:
Partridgeberry, Twinflower
Look for it in deciduous & coniferous forests, streambanks, heath balds, maritime forests, on rotten logs
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in clay-based Carolina bays, rivershore and millpond drawdown shores, sagponds, other seasonally saturated habitats
Rare, endemic to the Southeastern Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Diamond-flower, Flattop Mille-graines
Look for it in moist lawns, gardens
Rare in GA, NC, SC
Non-native: South America
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Common Name:
Quaker Ladies, Common Bluet, Innocence, Azure Bluet
Look for it in forests, woodlands, openings, lawns, a wide variety of disturbed sites
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Thymeleaf Bluet, Appalachian Bluet, Prostrate Bluet, Marsh Bluet
Look for it on streambanks, grassy balds, moist forests, seepy rock outcrops, spray cliffs, and moist distured areas
Common (uncommon in GA), endemic to Central & Southern Appalachians
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Tiny Bluet, Small Bluet
Look for it in woodlands, lawns, cemeteries, and other disturbed sites
Common (rare in Mountains)
Native to Carolinas & Georgia - natural habitats & original distribution obscure
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Common Name:
Southern Bluet
Look for it on dunes, sandy soils, granitic flatrocks, disturbed areas
Rare in GA
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Roundleaf Bluet, Creeping Bluet, Trailing Bluet, Fairy-footprints
Look for it on beach dunes, in moist to wet sandy pinelands
Common
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Summer Bluet, Mountain Bluet, Woodland Bluet, Purple Bluet
Look for it in moist and dry woodlands and forests, roadbanks, thinner soils around rock outcrops, a variety of disturbed sites, such as paths, old roads, and roadbanks
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in calcareous prairies and barrens, dry woodlands, banks, rock outcrops, shallow soils around mafic and calcareous rock outcrops
Rare
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Roan Mountain Bluet
Look for it in crevices of rock outcrops at summits of high elevation peaks of Southern Blue Ridge, also in thin frost-heaved gravelly soils of grassy balds near summit outcrops, from 1250-1950m in elevation
Rare, endemic to the high Blue Ridge of nw. NC & ne. TN
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Canada Bluet
Look for it in dry limestone barrens, locally abundant in shallow soils over limestone
Rare
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Longleaf Bluet
Look for it on dry rock outcrops and adjacent open woodlands, dry sandy woodlands, dry roadbanks, glades and barrens
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Granite Dome Bluet
Look for it in seasonally and periodically wet soils of shallow soil mats and crevices of granitic domes
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Narrowleaf Bluet, Diffuse-branched Bluet
Look for it usually in dry woodlands, often rocky (esp mafic rocks) or sandy
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in limestone barrens dominated by Andropogon gerardii, blackland prairies
Rare
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Field Madder, Blue Field Madder
Look for it in lawns, disturbed areas
Uncommon
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Coastal Bedstraw
Look for it in maritime forests, sandhills, dry sandy forests
Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Oneflower Bedstraw
Look for it in moist slope forests and alluvial forests
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in moist hardwood forests
Uncommon in NC, rare in SC
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Forest Bedstraw, Licorice Bedstraw
Look for it in mesic to dry forests
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Hairy Bedstraw
Look for it in forests, woodland borders, clearings
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in mesic forests, maritime forests, swamp edges
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Cleavers, Bedstraw
Look for it in meadows, thickets, disturbed areas, forests
Common
Native & non-native
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Common Name:
Sweet-scented Bedstraw, Fragrant Bedstraw
Look for it in woodlands, roadsides, disturbed areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Purple Bedstraw, Wideleaf Bedstraw
Look for it in moist hardwood forests
Common (uncommon in Piedmont), endemic to Central & Southern Appalachians
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in meadows, pastures, roadsides
Rare in NC
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Piedmont Crosswort, Piedmont Bedstraw
Look for it in lawns, grassy roadsides, pastures
Uncommon (rare in NC Piedmont)
Non-native: southern Europe
Look for it in marshes, swamps
Uncommon (rare in Mountains, rare in GA - except common in GA Mtns)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in marshes, swamps, creekbanks, alluvial forests
Common in NC & SC Coastal Plain (uncommon to rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC) (an endemic)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Stiff Marsh Bedstraw, Dye Bedstraw, Three-lobed Bedstraw
Look for it in swamps, marshes, & ditches
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Rough Bedstraw
Look for it in bogs, streambanks, wet meadows
Uncommon
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
False Baby's Breath, Smooth Bedstraw, Hedge Bedstraw, Wild Madder
Look for it in moist roadsides, disturbed areas
Uncommon in NC, rare in GA
Non-native: Europe
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Northern Bedstraw
Look for it on limestone and dolostone bluffs, outcrops, and rocky woodlands
Rare
Native north of the Carolinas
Look for it in mesic to dry forests
Uncommon
Native north of the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Skunkvine
Look for it in disturbed areas
Uncommon in GA, rare in NC-SC
Non-native: southeast Asia
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