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Your search found 8 taxa in the family Cupressaceae, Cypress family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Atlantic White Cedar, Juniper
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Chamaecyparis thyoides var. thyoides FAMILY: Cupressaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Chamaecyparis thyoides FAMILY: Cupressaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Chamaecyparis thyoides 018-01-001 FAMILY: Cupressaceae
Habitat: Peat dome and streamhead pocosins, blackwater stream swamps, hillside seepages, in highly acidic, peaty or sandy soils
Uncommon (rare in GA)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
American Arborvitae, Northern White Cedar, Flat Cedar, Eastern Arborvitae
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Thuja occidentalis FAMILY: Cupressaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Thuja occidentalis FAMILY: Cupressaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Thuja occidentalis 018-02-001 FAMILY: Cupressaceae
Habitat: Dry limestone, dolostone, and calcareous sandstone cliffs, talus, and boulderfields, rarely in our area in calcareous swamps, also planted and persisting around old homesites and cemeteries (mainly in the Mountains)
Rare
Native north of the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Oriental Arborvitae, Tree-of-life
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Platycladus orientalis FAMILY: Cupressaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Platycladus orientalis FAMILY: Cupressaceae
Habitat: Commonly planted, especially in graveyards, and rarely persisting and spreading to pastures, fields, and roadsides
Waif(s)
Non-native: Asia
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Common Name:
Ground Juniper, Mountain Juniper, Common Juniper
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Juniperus communis var. depressa FAMILY: Cupressaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Juniperus communis var. depressa FAMILY: Cupressaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Juniperus communis var. depressa 018-03-001 FAMILY: Cupressaceae
Habitat: In thin soil around rock outcrops on mountain summits and Piedmont monadnocks and rocky bluffs (in GA and NC), high elevation old fields (in VA), xeric Coastal Plain sandhills (in SC and VA)
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Eastern Red Cedar
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Juniperus virginiana FAMILY: Cupressaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana FAMILY: Cupressaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Juniperus virginiana 018-03-002 FAMILY: Cupressaceae
Habitat: Bluffs, glades, upland forests and woodlands, pastures, old fields, roadsides, and fencerows, primarily upland, occurring most abundantly on (but by no means restricted to) circumneutral soils (including shrink-swell clays) derived from mafic or calcareous rocks
Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Red Cedar, Coastal Red Cedar
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Juniperus silicicola FAMILY: Cupressaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Juniperus virginiana var. silicicola FAMILY: Cupressaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Juniperus silicicola 018-03-003 FAMILY: Cupressaceae
Habitat: Maritime forests and maritime scrub, hammocks, coastal shell middens and natural shell deposits, brackish marshes, pine rocklands in s. FL, and other sandy or peaty, circumneutral situations
Common in Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Leyland Cypress
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) ×Hesperotropsis leylandii FAMILY: Cupressaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: ×Hesperotropsis leylandii [Hesperocyparis macrocarpa × Callitropsis nootkatensis FAMILY: Cupressaceae
Habitat: Frequently planted, sometimes persistent in overgrown areas where it can seem naturalized; of garden origin
Waif(s)
Non-native
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Common Name:
Arizona Cypress
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Hesperocyparis arizonica FAMILY: Cupressaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Hesperocyparis arizonica FAMILY: Cupressaceae
Habitat: Fencerows, weakly naturalizing from horticultural plantings
Waif(s)
Native: Southwest US
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