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 Myricaceae, Bayberry family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.

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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Sweet-fern

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Comptonia peregrina   FAMILY: Myricaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Comptonia peregrina   FAMILY: Myricaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Comptonia peregrina 052-01-001   FAMILY: Myricaceae

 

Habitat: Dry open woods and barrens, in the mountains on xeric ridges at low to medium elevations, usually in fire-maintained habitats, also in xeric and fire-maintained habitats on monadnocks in the upper Piedmont and in dry, sandy sites in the lower Piedmont and fall-line sandhills

Uncommon in NC Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Sweet-gale

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Myrica gale   FAMILY: Myricaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Myrica gale   FAMILY: Myricaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Gale palustris 052-02-001   FAMILY: Myricaceae

 

Habitat: Peaty bogs and fens

Rare

Native to North Carolina

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Common Wax-myrtle, Southern Bayberry

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Morella cerifera   FAMILY: Myricaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Morella cerifera   FAMILY: Myricaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Myrica cerifera var. cerifera 052-03-001a   FAMILY: Myricaceae

 

Habitat: Interdune swales (where often dominant), pocosins, brackish marshes, other wet to moist habitats, now also widely planted (including in the Piedmont) as an ornamental or landscaping shrub and persistent or naturalizing in suburban woodlands

Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere, where mostly introduced)

Native to the Coastal Plain of the Carolinas & Georgia, and the GA Piedmont

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Dwarf Wax-myrtle, Dwarf Bayberry

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Morella pumila   FAMILY: Myricaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Morella cerifera   FAMILY: Myricaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Myrica cerifera var. pumila 052-03-001b   FAMILY: Myricaceae

 

Habitat: Savannas, pine flatwoods, relatively moist to extremely dry sites in sandhills (under Quercus laevis and Q. geminata)

Common

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Northern Bayberry

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Morella pensylvanica   FAMILY: Myricaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Morella pensylvanica   FAMILY: Myricaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Myrica pensylvanica 052-03-002   FAMILY: Myricaceae

 

Habitat: Dunes, sometimes even on the foredune and stoloniferously colonizing the upper beach, more typically behind the foredune on secondary dunes and sandy flats, often growing intermixed with Morella cerifera, but able to occupy drier sites higher on the dunes, from VA north, also ranging inland in sandy situations

Uncommon in NC Coastal Plain

Native to North Carolina

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Pocossin Bayberry, Evergreen Bayberry, Swamp Candleberry, Southern Bayberry

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Morella caroliniensis   FAMILY: Myricaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Morella caroliniensis   FAMILY: Myricaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Myrica heterophylla 052-03-003   FAMILY: Myricaceae

 

Habitat: Pocosins, wet savannas and pine flatwoods, sandhill seepage bogs, and other peaty or sandy-peaty wetlands

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

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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speaker icon Common Name: Scentless Bayberry, Odorless Bayberry

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Morella inodora   FAMILY: Myricaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Morella inodora   FAMILY: Myricaceae

 

Habitat: Acid wetlands, especially in wooded, acid, streamhead "bogs" and bayheads, often associated with Magnolia virginiana, Tamala palustris, Cyrilla racemiflora, Cliftonia monophylla, and Lorinseria areolata

Rare

Native to Georgia

 


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