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Your search found 20 taxa.
Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Kidneyleaf Grass-of-Parnassus, Appalachian Grass-of-Parnassus, Brook Parnassia
Look for it in bogs, sphagnous seeps, brookbanks, generally in more acidic habitats than P. grandifolia, up to elevations over 1800m
Uncommon (rare in SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Carolina Grass-of-Parnassus, Savanna Parnassia, Eyebright
Look for it in wet longleaf pine, pond pine, or pond cypress savannas (esp but not strictly where shallowly underlain by coquina limestone), sandhill seepage bogs
Rare
Native to the Carolinas
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Bigleaf Grass-of-Parnassus, Limeseep Parnassia
Look for it in fens, gravelly seepages, pineland seepage bogs and ecotones, primarily or solely over calcareous, mafic, or ultramafic rocks, in the outer Coastal Plain in seepage over marl on nearly vertical river bluffs on the Cape Fear River (NC) and in pineland seepage bogs
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Appalachian False Goatsbeard
Look for it in cove forests, on seepage slopes
Common in Carolina Mtns, uncommon in GA Mtns, rare elsewhere (an endemic)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Golden-saxifrage, Water-carpet, Water-mat
Look for it in shallow seepage in shade
Uncommon in NC-SC, rare in GA
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Two-leaved Miterwort, Bishop's Cap
Look for it in moist rich forests, esp in the Mountains, and esp rocky
Common in NC, rare in GA-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Mapleleaf Alumroot, Hairy Alumroot, Rock Alumroot, Crag-jangle
Look for it in crevices of rock outcrops, or in thin soil over boulders, a characteristic component of the flora of high elevation cliffs and summits (to at least 1920 m), not particular about the rock type, occurring on a wide range of rock types in our area, including felsic gneisses and schists, mafic gneisses, granites, quartzites, and others, probably the most acidophilic of our taxa of Heuchera
Common (rare in GA-SC Piedmont), primarily endemic to the Southern Appalachians
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Littleflower Alumroot, Cave Alumroot, Cumberland Grotto Alumroot, Small-flower Alumroot
Look for it in shaded cliff bases, usually under overhangs, on grotto floors, behind waterfalls where humidity is high but not in the spray zone, in rockhouses of the Cumberland Plateau, nearly always in deeply shaded situations where little or no direct sunlight falls
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
American Alumroot
Look for it in rocky forests, rock outcrops, particularly where soils are subacidic to circumneutral
Common (uncommon to rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in rocky forests, rock outcrops, particularly where soils are subacidic to circumneutral, replacing H. americana in much of the upper Piedmont
Uncommon (endemic to Piedmont of sc VA, NC, & sc SC)
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Marbled Alumroot, Downy Alumroot
Look for it in rocky forests, rock outcrops, particularly where soils are subacidic or circumneutral
Rare (an endemic)
Native to North & possibly South Carolina
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Look for it on shaded calcareous or basic cliffs
Rare (an endemic)
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Heartleaf Foamflower
Look for it in moist forests, cove forests, rock outcrops, well-drained bottomland forests
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Brook-saxifrage, Eastern Boykinia, Allegheny Brookfoam, Aconite-saxifrage
Look for it on streambanks, riverbanks, in crevices in spray cliffs around waterfalls, seepages
Uncommon in NC Mountains, rare elsewhere (endemic to the Southern Appalachians)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Michaux's Saxifrage, Cliff Saxifrage
Look for it in crevices in exposed rock outcrops at high elevations, other rock outcrops (moist to rather dry), periglacial boulderfields, rocky seeps
Common, endemic to the Southern Appalachians
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Escarpment Saxifrage, Shealy's Saxifrage
Look for it in moist seepage over rock, at low elevations (2000-3000 feet)
Rare, endemic to SC's Pickens County, so far as is known
Native to South & possibly North Carolina
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Common Name:
Early Saxifrage
Look for it on rock outcrops, moist alluvial & slope forests, streambanks, riverbanks
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Brook Lettuce, Mountain Lettuce, Branch Lettuce, Lettuceleaf Saxifrage
Look for it in wet soils of seepages, in the beds of high elevation brooks, brookbanks, rocky seepages
Common, endemic to the Central & Southern Appalachians
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Carey's Saxifrage
Look for it on moist rock outcrops & cliffs, often under overhangs, often in moist soil at the base of a vertical or overhanging rock outcrop
Rare, endemic to the Southern Appalachians
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Look for it on moist soil outcrops & cliffs, often under overhangs, often in moist soil at the base of a vertical or overhanging rock outcrop
Rare, endemic to the Southern Appalachians
Native to North Carolina
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