OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.

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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Mapleleaf Alumroot, Hairy Alumroot, Rock Alumroot, Crag-jangle

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Heuchera villosa   FAMILY: Saxifragaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Heuchera villosa var. villosa   FAMILY: Saxifragaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Heuchera villosa 094-11-001   FAMILY: Saxifragaceae

 

Habitat: 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 Piedmont of GA & SC)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Littleflower Alumroot, Cave Alumroot, Cumberland Grotto Alumroot, Small-flower Alumroot

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Heuchera parviflora var. parviflora   FAMILY: Saxifragaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Heuchera parviflora var. parviflora   FAMILY: Saxifragaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Heuchera parviflora 094-11-002   FAMILY: Saxifragaceae

 

Habitat: 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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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: American Alumroot

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Heuchera americana   FAMILY: Saxifragaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Heuchera americana var. americana   FAMILY: Saxifragaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Heuchera americana 094-11-003   FAMILY: Saxifragaceae

 

Habitat: Rocky forests, rock outcrops, particularly where soils are subacidic to circumneutral

Common (uncommon to rare in Coastal Plain)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Purple Alumroot, Hispid Alumroot

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Heuchera hispida   FAMILY: Saxifragaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Heuchera americana var. hispida   FAMILY: Saxifragaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Heuchera americana 094-11-003?   FAMILY: Saxifragaceae

 

Habitat: Calcareous rocky forests, rock outcrops, particularly where soils are subacidic to circumneutral

Rare

Native to North Carolina

 


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Common Name: Carolina Alumroot

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Heuchera caroliniana   FAMILY: Saxifragaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Heuchera caroliniana   FAMILY: Saxifragaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Heuchera americana 094-11-003?   FAMILY: Saxifragaceae

 

Habitat: Rocky forests, rock outcrops, particularly where soils are subacidic to circumneutral, replacing H. americana in much of the upper Piedmont

Uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Mountains

Native to the Carolinas

 


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camera icon Common Name: Marbled Alumroot, Downy Alumroot

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Heuchera pubescens   FAMILY: Saxifragaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Heuchera pubescens   FAMILY: Saxifragaceae

 

Habitat: Rocky forests, rock outcrops, particularly where soils are subacidic or circumneutral

Rare

Native to the Carolinas

 


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Common Name: Mapleleaf Alumroot, longflower alumroot

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Heuchera aceroides   FAMILY: Saxifragaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Heuchera longiflora   FAMILY: Saxifragaceae

(?) SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Heuchera longiflora var. aceroides 094-11-005?   FAMILY: Saxifragaceae

 

Habitat: Shaded calcareous or basic cliffs

Rare

Native to North Carolina

 


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