OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

Your search found 1 taxon in the family Molluginaceae, Carpetweed family, as understood by Weakley's Flora.

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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Carpetweed, Indian-chickweed, Green Carpetweed

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Mollugo verticillata   FAMILY: Molluginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Mollugo verticillata   FAMILY: Molluginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Mollugo verticillata 069-04-001   FAMILY: Aizoaceae

 

Habitat: Fields, disturbed areas, drawdown zones on river- and pond-shores

Common

Non-native: tropical America

 


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"Although prairies may be grasslands in terms of sheer volume of vegetation, about three out of every four plant species found there are wildflowers. Prairies are blossom lands and thus, butterfly lands." — Douglas Chadwick, The American Prairie, Root of the Sky, National Geographic, October 1993