OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

Your search found 7 taxa in the family Rutaceae, Rue family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.

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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Northern Toothache Tree, Northern Prickly-ash

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Zanthoxylum americanum   FAMILY: Rutaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Zanthoxylum americanum   FAMILY: Rutaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Zanthoxylum americana 103-01-001   FAMILY: Rutaceae

 

Habitat: Woodlands, forests, and glade margins over calcareous or mafic rocks, often forming extensive colonies near outcrops

Rare, only a single known site in SC

Native to South Carolina & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Southern Toothache Tree, Hercules-club, Sea-ash, Southern Prickly-ash

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Zanthoxylum clava-herculis   FAMILY: Rutaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Zanthoxylum clava-herculis   FAMILY: Rutaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Zanthoxylum clava-herculis 103-01-002   FAMILY: Rutaceae

 

Habitat: Maritime forests, dunes, shell middens, shell hammocks, maritime scrub, inland (in FL and GA) in hammocks

Common in GA Coastal Plain (uncommon in Carolinas)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Wild Lime, Lime Prickly-ash, Colima, Satinwood

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Zanthoxylum fagara   FAMILY: Rutaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Zanthoxylum fagara   FAMILY: Rutaceae

 

Habitat: Coastal hammocks, inland hammocks with (usually) calcareous influence

Native: Florida

 


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camera icon Common Name: Wafer-ash, Hoptree

Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Ptelea trifoliata   FAMILY: Rutaceae

(?) PLANTS National Database: Ptelea trifoliata +   FAMILY: Rutaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Ptelea trifoliata 103-02-001   FAMILY: Rutaceae

 

Look for it on rocky bluffs, esp calcareous or mafic, open woodlands, calcareous Coastal Plain river bluffs, granitic domes

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Trifoliate Orange, Hardy Orange

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Citrus trifoliata   FAMILY: Rutaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Poncirus trifoliata   FAMILY: Rutaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Poncirus trifoliata 103-03-001   FAMILY: Rutaceae

 

Habitat: Bottomland and riparian forests, mesic upland forests, stream banks, spring runs, fencerows, roadsides, becoming common especially in suburban areas

Uncommon (rare in GA & NC Mountains) (rare in Carolina Coastal Plain)

Non-native: China

 


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Common Name: Sour Orange, Marmalade Orange, Sweet Orange, Bitter Orange

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Citrus ×aurantium   FAMILY: Rutaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Citrus ×aurantium [maxima × reticulata]   FAMILY: Rutaceae

 

Habitat: Cultivated horticulturally, sometimes persistent and naturalizing

Rare

Non-native: southeast Asia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Amur Cork-tree, Northern Cork-tree, Japanese Cork-tree

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Phellodendron amurense   FAMILY: Rutaceae

INCLUDING PLANTS National Database: Phellodendron japonicum   FAMILY: Rutaceae

 

Habitat: Suburban woodlands

Non-native: Japan, Taiwan, Korea, ne. China, and e. Russia

 


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