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Your search found 137 taxa.
Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Garden Asparagus, Sparrowgrass
Look for it to have escaped to fencerows, roadsides, disturbed areas
Commonly cultivated and escaped
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Sprenger’s Asparagus-fern, Emerald-fern
Look for it in disturbed areas, seeding down especially around plantings
Rare
Non-native: southern Africa
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Look for it in rich, mesic, deciduous forests
Rare
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Decumbent Trillium, Trailing Trillium
Look for it in moist forests
Uncommon in GA, an endemic (should be sought in extreme sw. NC)
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Relict Trillium
Look for it in rich forests on bluffs and ravine slopes
Rare, an endemic
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Little Sweet Betsy, Purple Toadshade
Look for it in rich soils of cove forests, moist slopes, & bottomlands, usually over mafic or calcareous rocks
Common to uncommon, locally abundant (rare in SC Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Chattahoochee Trillium, Deceptive Trillium
Look for it in moist forests
Uncommon in GA, rare in SC (an endemic)
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Look for it in rich forests, in NC limited to very rich soils of natural levees and lower slopes along the Roanoke River
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Underwood's Trillium
Look for it in moist forests
Uncommon
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Yellow Trillium, Yellow Toadshade, Lemon-scented Trillium, Wax Trillium
Look for it in moist coves over mafic or calcareous rocks, locally abundant in the vicinity of the Great Smokies
Locally abundant in the vicinity of the Great Smokies, uncommon to rare elsewhere. Nearly endemic to the Southern Appalachians
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Mottled Trillium, Spotted Trillium
Look for it in rich forests and floodplains, over calcareous materials such as coquina limestone ("marl") or on shell middens
Uncommon in Coastal Plain, rare in Piedmont (an endemic)
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Look for it in rich forests
Rare, endemic to the Lookout Mountain region of nw. GA, se. TN & ne. AL
Native to Georgia
Look for it in floodplains, streambanks, ravine forests
Native: west of Georgia
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Common Name:
Pale Yellow Trillium, Faded Trillium, Small Yellow Toadshade, Savannah River Trillium
Look for it in rich cove and bluff forests, restricted to the Savannah River drainage
Uncommon in SC, rare elsewhere (an endemic)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Twisted Trillium, Helicopter Trillium
Look for it in floodplains, on slopes, especially over limestone
Native: west of the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Lanceleaf Trillium, Narrowleaf Trillium
Look for it in rich forests over marble, limestone, and other calcareous substrates, floodplain forests
Rare
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Look for it in rich bottomland forests
Rare, endemic to SC's Kershaw-Richland counties along Wateree River, apparently
Native to South Carolina
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Common Name:
Prairie Trillium, Prairie Wake-robin, Recurved Trillium
Look for it in rich soils of cove over calcareous rock
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Northern Nodding Trillium
Look for it im moist rich woods, seepage edges, damp forests with Fraxinus nigra and Ulmus americana, on mafic or calcareous substrates
Rare
Native: north of the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Southern Nodding Trillium
Look for it in rich woodlands and forests over mafic or calcareous rocks
Uncommon (rare in NC Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Red Trillium, Purple Trillium, Stinking Willie, Stinking Benjamin
Look for it on wooded slopes, usually at middle to high elevations
Common in Mountains, rare in Piedmont
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
White-flowered Red Trillium
Look for it on wooded slopes, usually at low elevations
Rare overall, but common in and around Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Red Trillium, Barksdale's Trillium
Look for it in coves and on moist slopes
Uncommon (rare in GA)
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Vasey's Trillium, Sweet Trillium, Sweet Beth
Look for it in cove forests, other rich forests
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain), endemic to Southern Appalachians
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in rich forests
Rare (an endemic)
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Bent Trillium, Bent White Trillium, Bentstalk Trillium, Drooping Trillium
Look for it in moist coves over mafic or calcareous rocks
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Sweet White Trillium, Confusing Trillium, Jeweled Trillium
Look for it in very rich soils of slopes and coves over mafic or calcareous rocks, often also in or near seepage
Rare, endemic to the Southern Appalachians
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Catesby's Trillium, Rosy Wake-robin, Bashful Trillium, Rose Trillium
Look for it in bottomland forests, mesic slopes, cove forests
Common (uncommon in Mountains, rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Large-flowered Trillium, Great White Trillium, White Wake-robin, Showy Wake-robin
Look for it in rich coves and mesic slopes, also less typically on ridges over "rich" rock types
Common (rare in SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Persistent Trillium, Edna's Trillium
Look for it in acidic forests with hemlocks and heaths
Rare, endemic to a portion of Tallulah-Tugaloo river system in nw. SC & ne. GA
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Carolina Least Trillium, Virginia Dwarf Trillium, Aiken Least Trillium
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Painted Trillium, Striped Wake-robin
Look for it in acidic soils of ridges, slopes, and bog margins, mostly at high elevations and often associated with Rhododendron, Tsuga, Pinus, or Picea
Common in Mountains (rare in SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Indian Cucumber-root
Look for it in moist forests, usually with acidic soils
Common (uncommon in GA Piedmont, rare in GA Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Bluebead-lily, Clinton's Lily, Yellow Clintonia, Yellow Bead Lily
Look for it in spruce-fir forests, northern hardwood forests, less commonly in red oak forests
Common (rare in GA)
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Speckled Wood-lily, White Clintonia
Look for it in red oak & other oak forests, mesic to dry ridges & slopes, less commonly in northern hardwood forests, generally at lower elevations than C. borealis, though the two species can co-occur
Common (uncommon in GA-SC), endemic to the Appalachians
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
False Solomon's Seal, Eastern Solomon's Plume, May-plume
Look for it in forests
Common (uncommon in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Starry Solomon's Seal, Starry Solomon's Plume, Starflower
Rare
Native north of the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Canada Mayflower, False Lily-of-the-valley, Wild Lily-of-the-valley
Look for it in moist forests, esp at high elevations
Common
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Yellow Mandarin, Yellow Fairybells
Look for it in deciduous forests, esp coves
Common (primarily in the Appalachians)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Nodding Mandarin, Spotted Mandarin
Look for it in nutrient-rich deciduous forests, esp cove forests
Rare, its distribution fragmented
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Rosy Twisted-stalk, Eastern Rose Mandarin, Eastern Twisted-stalk
Look for it in moist forests at high elevations, especially spruce-fir and northern hardwoods forests
Uncommon (rare in GA)
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
Common Name:
Clasping Twisted-stalk, White Mandarin, Pagoda-bells
Look for it in moist forests and seepages at high elevations
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Hairy Solomon's Seal, Downy Solomon’s Seal
Look for it in moist forests, especially cove forests, but also in montane oak forests
Common in Mountains
Native to Georgia, North Carolina, & possibly South Carolina
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Common Name:
Smooth Solomon's Seal
Look for it . Depending on variety, it can be found in moist to dry forests and/or on roadbanks
Common to rare, depending on variety and region
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
European Lily-of-the-valley
Look for it where it persists after cultivation
Rare
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
American Lily-of-the-valley
Look for it in mountain forests, particularly in rocky woodlands or forests on or near ridgetops under northern red oak at about 1000 to 1500m elevation, sometimes at lower elevations (down to at least 700m) & under Quercus montana
Uncommon (rare in Piedmont, rare in SC), endemic to the Southern Appalachians
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Georgia Beargrass, Sandhills Lily
Look for it in sandhills, and it's sometimes locally common on slightly less xeric lower sandhill slopes
Rare
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Eastern Turkeybeard, Beargrass, Mountain-asphodel
Look for it on dry ridges and slopes in the mountains, primarily in dry, strongly acidic sites which burn periodically, such as pine/heath woodlands and forests, heath balds, and xeric oak forests
Uncommon in NC (rare in GA-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Swamp Pink
Look for it in bogs, usually under dense shrubs in peaty soils
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Fairywand, Devil's Bit
Look for it on moist slopes, bottomlands, wet savannas
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Coastal Bog Asphodel, Coastal False Asphodel, Southern Bog Asphodel, Savanna Asphodel
Look for it in savannas, savanna-pocosin ecotones, seepage bogs
Uncommon in Coastal Plain, rare in Piedmont
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Sticky Bog Asphodel, Northern Bog Asphodel, False Asphodel
Look for it in bogs and seeps, esp over mafic or calcareous rocks
Rare (an endemic)
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Carolina Bog Asphodel, White Asphodel
Look for it in savanna-pocosin ecotones, wet savannas, seepage bogs
Rare, endemic to the Coastal Plain (inc Sandhills) of NC & northern SC
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Rush-featherling, Pleea
Look for it - it's locally abundant in wet savannas, pocosin margins, usually in peaty soil
Uncommon (rare in SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Golden Colicroot
Look for it in pine savannas, seepage bogs, pine flatwoods
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Yellow Colicroot
Look for it in wet pine savannas
Common (rare north of GA)
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
Look for it in pine savannas
Uncommon in GA, rare in SC
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Northern White Colicroot, White-star Grass, Stargrass, Mealy Colicroot
Look for it in pine savannas, pine flatwoods, seepage bogs, upland woodlands, roadbanks
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Fly-poison
Look for it in mesic forests, pine savannas, meadows, from 5 to at least 1600m in elevation
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Florida Feathershank
Look for it in dry pine savannas, longleaf pine sandhills, Florida scrub
Rare
Native to Georgia
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