OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

Your search found 37 taxa in the family Gentianaceae, Gentian family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.

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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: White Sabatia, Lanceleaf Rose-gentian, Lanceleaf Sabatia

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Sabatia difformis   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sabatia difformis   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sabatia difformis 155-01-001   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

 

Habitat: Pine savannas, bogs, pocosins

Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Four-angle Sabatia, Four-angle Rose-gentian

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Sabatia quadrangula   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sabatia quadrangula   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sabatia quadrangula 155-01-002   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

 

Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, moist forests, pocosin ecotones, seepages

Uncommon (rare in Mountains)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Narrowleaf Rose-pink, Narrowleaf Rose-gentian, Narrowleaf Sabatia

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Sabatia brachiata   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sabatia brachiata   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sabatia brachiata 155-01-004   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

 

Habitat: Mesic pinelands, longleaf pine sandhills, pine savannas, pine flatwoods

Uncommon in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Rose-pink, Bitterbloom, Common Marsh-pink, American Centaury

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Sabatia angularis   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sabatia angularis   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sabatia angularis 155-01-005   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

 

Habitat: Forests, woodlands, marshes, fields, calcareous hammocks (in FL), especially in base-rich situations

Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Annual Sea-pink, Salt-marsh Pink, Rose-of-Plymouth

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Sabatia stellaris   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sabatia stellaris   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sabatia stellaris 155-01-007   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

 

Habitat: Brackish marshes, maritime wet grasslands

Common in Coastal Plain

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Largeflower Rose-gentian

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Sabatia grandiflora   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sabatia grandiflora   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

 

Habitat: Wet flatwoods, marshes, cypress-gum depressions, limesink ponds, borrow pits

Rare

Native to Georgia Coastal Plain

 


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camera icon Common Name: Slender Marsh-pink, Slender Rose-gentian

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Sabatia campanulata   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sabatia campanulata   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sabatia campanulata 155-01-008   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

 

Habitat: Pine savannas, bogs, seeps, fens

Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Coastal Rose-pink, Coastal Rose-gentian

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Sabatia calycina   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sabatia calycina   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sabatia calycina 155-01-009   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

 

Habitat: Swamp forests, river banks

Common in Coastal Plain

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Perennial Sea-pink, Large Marsh Rose-pink, Marsh Rose-gentian

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Sabatia dodecandra   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sabatia dodecandra var. dodecandra   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sabatia dodecandra var. dodecandra 155-01-010a   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

 

Habitat: Tidal brackish and freshwater marshes

Common in Carolina Coastal Plain, rare in GA

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Blackwater Rose-pink, Marsh Rose-gentian

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Sabatia foliosa   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sabatia dodecandra var. foliosa   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sabatia dodecandra var. dodecandra 155-01-010a?   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

 

Habitat: Openings along blackwater rivers, cypress ponds

Uncommon in SC, rare in GA

Native to South Carolina & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Bartram's Rose-gentian

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Sabatia decandra   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sabatia bartramii   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sabatia dodecandra var. coriacea 155-01-010b   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

 

Habitat: Margins of Taxodium ascendens-Nyssa depressions, wet pine flatwoods

Uncommon in GA, rare in SC

Native to South Carolina & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Plymouth Rose-gentian, Plymouth Gentian

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Sabatia kennedyana   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sabatia kennedyana   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sabatia dodecandra var. kennedyana 155-01-010c   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

 

Habitat: Seasonally exposed drawdown banks of the Waccamaw River, in adjacent ditches and disturbed flats (in se. NC and ne. SC), and very rarely on shores of beaver ponds (in e. VA, by introduction)

Rare

Native to the Carolinas

 


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camera icon Common Name: Pinewoods Rose-gentian, Pinewoods Rose-pink

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Sabatia gentianoides   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sabatia gentianoides   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sabatia gentianoides 155-01-011   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

 

Habitat: Pine savannas, bogs

Common in Coastal Plain

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Cumberland Rose-gentian, Appalachian Rose-gentian

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Sabatia capitata   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sabatia capitata   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

 

Habitat: Sloping woodlands and meadows, over sandstone or shale

Rare in GA (historically in NC, but not recently seen)

Native to Georgia & apparently North Carolina

 


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camera icon Common Name: Eastern Fringed Gentian, Greater Fringed Gentian

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Gentianopsis crinita   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Gentianopsis crinita   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Gentiana crinita 155-02-001   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

 

Habitat: Sunny or partially shaded seepage areas over calcareous, mafic, or ultramafic rocks (such as limestone, amphibolite, or serpentinized olivine)

Rare

Native to North Carolina & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Stiff Gentian, Appalachian Gentianella, Fivefinger Gentian, Eastern Agueweed

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Gentianella quinquefolia   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Gentianella quinquefolia ssp. quinquefolia   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Gentiana quinquefolia 155-02-002   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

 

Habitat: Forests, grassy balds

Common in NC Mountains, uncommon in GA & SC Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Pinebarren Gentian, Autumn Gentian

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Gentiana autumnalis   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Gentiana autumnalis   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Gentiana autumnalis 155-02-003   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

 

Habitat: Longleaf pine savannas, pine flatwoods, sandhills, pine barrens, in a variety of sites varying from moist to very xeric, in se. VA, NC, and SC nearly always associated with Pinus palustris and/or Aristida stricta

Uncommon in NC, rare in SC

Native to the Carolinas

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Striped Gentian

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Gentiana villosa   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Gentiana villosa   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Gentiana villosa 155-02-004   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

 

Habitat: Upland forests, sandhill/pocosin ecotones

Uncommon

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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Common Name: Pale Gentian, Plain Gentian

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Gentiana alba   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Gentiana alba   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Gentiana alba 155-02-005   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

 

Habitat: Moist meadows, prairies, glades, openings in mesic forests

Historically in NC, but not recently seen

Native to North Carolina

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Appalachian Gentian, Showy Gentian

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Gentiana decora   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Gentiana decora   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Gentiana decora 155-02-006   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

 

Habitat: Forests

Common in Mountains (rare in Piedmont)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Meadow Closed Gentian, Meadow Bottle Gentian

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Gentiana clausa   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Gentiana clausa   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Gentiana clausa 155-02-007   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

 

Habitat: Forests

Uncommon in NC Mountains, rare in NC Piedmont

Native to North Carolina & possibly Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Blue Ridge Gentian, Appalachian Gentian, Pine Barren Gentian

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Gentiana austromontana   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Gentiana austromontana   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Gentiana clausa 155-02-007?   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

 

Habitat: Mountain forests and grassy balds, especially at medium to high elevations, but descending to ca. 600 m (2200 feet)

Uncommon in NC Mountains, rare in NC Piedmont

Native to North Carolina

 


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camera icon Common Name: Balsam Mountain Gentian

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Gentiana latidens   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

(?) PLANTS National Database: Gentiana saponaria var. latidens   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Gentiana clausa 155-02-007?   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

 

Habitat: Moist, often seeping, more or less open sites on rocky slopes

Rare, restricted to the higher mountains of NC south of Asheville

Native to North Carolina

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Soapwort Gentian, Harvestbells

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Gentiana saponaria   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Gentiana saponaria var. saponaria   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Gentiana saponaria 155-02-008   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

 

Habitat: Bogs, marshes, wet hardwood forests, other moist to wet habitats

Uncommon

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Coastal Plain Gentian, Catesby's Gentian, Elliott's Gentian

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Gentiana catesbyi   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Gentiana catesbaei   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Gentiana catesbaei 155-02-009   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

 

Habitat: Pocosins, moist longleaf pine savanna edges, edges of moist hardwood forests, bluff seepages

Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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speaker icon Common Name: Prairie Closed Gentian, Closed Bottle Gentian

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Gentiana andrewsii var. andrewsii   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Gentiana andrewsii var. andrewsii   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

 

Habitat: Meadows, seeps, forest edges, freshwater marshes, open-canopied swamps

Native: north of the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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Common Name: Narrowleaf Gentian

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Gentiana linearis   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Gentiana linearis   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

 

Habitat: Openings in spruce-fir forests, seeps, bogs, and swamp forests at high elevations

Native: north of the Carolinas

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: American Columbo

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Frasera caroliniensis   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Frasera caroliniensis   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Swertia caroliniensis 155-03-001   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

 

Habitat: Rich forests and woodlands over mafic or calcareous rocks, upper slopes of cove forests, floodplain forests

Rare

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Spring Bartonia, White Bartonia, White Screwstem

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Bartonia verna   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Bartonia verna   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Bartonia verna 155-04-001   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

 

Habitat: Wet pine savannas, shores of Coastal Plain depression ponds, interdune swales, other moist sands

Common in Coastal Plain of GA & SC, uncommon in NC

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Virginia Bartonia, Yellow Screwstem, Yellow Bartonia, Common Bartonia

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Bartonia virginica   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Bartonia virginica   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Bartonia virginica 155-04-002   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

 

Habitat: Bogs, swamps, savannas, pocosin ecotones, pocosins, dune swales

Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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Common Name: Screwstem Bartonia

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Bartonia paniculata ssp. paniculata   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Bartonia paniculata ssp. paniculata   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Bartonia paniculata 155-04-003   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

 

Habitat: Swamps, bogs, pocosins, pocosin ecotones, sphagnous seepages, sinkhole ponds

Uncommon (rare in Carolina Mountains & NC Piedmont)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Pennywort, Virginia Pennywort

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Obolaria virginica   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Obolaria virginica   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Obolaria virginica 155-05-001   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

 

Habitat: Nutrient-rich, moist to dry forests, mesic hammocks

Common in Mountains & Carolina Piedmont, uncommon to rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Little Floating Heart

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Nymphoides cordata   FAMILY: Menyanthaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Nymphoides cordata   FAMILY: Menyanthaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Nymphoides cordata 155-06-001   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

 

Habitat: Upland depression ponds, sluggish streams, beaverponds, primarily in the fall-line Sandhills

Uncommon

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Big Floating Heart, Banana Floating Heart

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Nymphoides aquatica   FAMILY: Menyanthaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Nymphoides aquatica   FAMILY: Menyanthaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Nymphoides aquatica 155-06-002   FAMILY: Gentianaceae

 

Habitat: Limesink ponds (dolines), other acidic and nutrient-poor water-filled depressions, sluggish streams, beaverponds, primarily in the Outer and Middle Coastal Plain

Uncommon

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Crested Floating Heart, Water Snowflake

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Nymphoides cristata   FAMILY: Menyanthaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Nymphoides cristata   FAMILY: Menyanthaceae

 

Habitat: Ponds and lakes

Rare or waif(s)

Non-native: China & India

 


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camera icon Common Name: Yellow Floating Heart

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Nymphoides peltata   FAMILY: Menyanthaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Nymphoides peltata   FAMILY: Menyanthaceae

 

Habitat: Ponds

Waif(s)

Non-native: Europe

 


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camera icon Common Name: Buckbean, Bogbean

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Menyanthes trifoliata   FAMILY: Menyanthaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Menyanthes trifoliata   FAMILY: Menyanthaceae

 

Habitat: Mucky soils of mountain fens at high elevations over amphibolite (in the Blue Ridge), boggy marshes over calcareous rocks (in the Ridge and Valley), seepage swamps (in the Coastal Plain)

Rare

Native to North Carolina

 


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