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Your search found 23 taxa in the family Saxifragaceae, Saxifrage family, as understood by Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Appalachian False Goatsbeard, Appalachian Astilbe
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Astilbe biternata FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Astilbe biternata FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Astilbe biternata 094-07-001 FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
Habitat: Cove forests, seepage slopes, boulderfield forests
Common in Carolina Mountains, uncommon in GA Mountains, rare in Piedmont
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Golden-saxifrage, Water-carpet, Water-mat
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Chrysosplenium americanum FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Chrysosplenium americanum FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Chrysosplenium americanum 094-08-001 FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
Habitat: In shaded, rocky, gravelly, and/or mossy seeps and seepage swamps
Uncommon in NC Mountains, rare in GA & SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Two-leaved Miterwort, Bishop's Cap
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Mitella diphylla FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Mitella diphylla FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Mitella diphylla 094-10-001 FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
Habitat: Mesic, rocky forests, rocky seeps, and seepage swamps, especially over mafic or calcareous rocks
Common in NC Mountains, rare in GA & SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Mapleleaf Alumroot, Hairy Alumroot, Rock Alumroot, Crag-jangle
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Heuchera villosa FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Heuchera villosa var. villosa FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Heuchera villosa 094-11-001 FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
Habitat: In crevices of rock outcrops, or in thin soil over boulders, a characteristic component of the flora of high elevation cliffs and summits (to at least 1920 m), not particular about the rock type, occurring on a wide range of rock types in our area, including felsic gneisses and schists, mafic gneisses, granites, quartzites, and others, probably the most acidophilic of our taxa of Heuchera
Common (rare in Piedmont of GA & SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Littleflower Alumroot, Cave Alumroot, Cumberland Grotto Alumroot, Small-flower Alumroot
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Heuchera parviflora var. parviflora FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Heuchera parviflora var. parviflora FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Heuchera parviflora 094-11-002 FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
Habitat: Shaded cliff bases, usually under overhangs, on grotto floors, behind waterfalls where humidity is high but not in the spray zone, in rockhouses of the Cumberland Plateau, nearly always in deeply shaded situations where little or no direct sunlight falls
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
American Alumroot
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Heuchera americana FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Heuchera americana var. americana FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Heuchera americana 094-11-003 FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
Habitat: Rocky forests, rock outcrops, particularly where soils are subacidic to circumneutral
Common (uncommon to rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Purple Alumroot, Hispid Alumroot
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Heuchera hispida FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Heuchera americana var. hispida FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Heuchera americana 094-11-003? FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
Habitat: Calcareous rocky forests, rock outcrops, particularly where soils are subacidic to circumneutral
Rare
Native to North Carolina
Common Name: Carolina Alumroot
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Heuchera caroliniana FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Heuchera caroliniana FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Heuchera americana 094-11-003? FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
Habitat: Rocky forests, rock outcrops, particularly where soils are subacidic to circumneutral, replacing H. americana in much of the upper Piedmont
Uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Mountains
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Marbled Alumroot, Downy Alumroot
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Heuchera pubescens FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Heuchera pubescens FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
Habitat: Rocky forests, rock outcrops, particularly where soils are subacidic or circumneutral
Rare
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name: Mapleleaf Alumroot, longflower alumroot
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Heuchera aceroides FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Heuchera longiflora FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
(?) SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Heuchera longiflora var. aceroides 094-11-005? FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
Habitat: Shaded calcareous or basic cliffs
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Piedmont Foamflower, Heartleaf Foamflower
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Tiarella cordifolia FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
INCLUDING PLANTS National Database: Tiarella cordifolia var. cordifolia FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
INCLUDING Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Tiarella cordifolia var. cordifolia 094-12-001a & b FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
Habitat: Moist forests, cove forests, rock outcrops, well-drained bottomland forests
Common in Carolina Piedmont (rare in elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name: Northern Foamflower, Creeping Foamflower
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Tiarella stolonifera FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Tiarella cordifolia var. cordifolia 094-12-001a? FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
Habitat: Moist forests, cove forests, rock outcrops, well-drained bottomland forests
Uncommon
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Escarpment Foamflower, Southern Foamflower
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Tiarella austrina FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Tiarella cordifolia var. collina 094-12-001b? FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
Habitat: Moist forests, cove forests, rock outcrops, well-drained bottomland forests
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Sail-bearing Foamflower, Sail-leaf Foamflower
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Tiarella nautila FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Tiarella cordifolia var. collina 094-12-001b? FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
Habitat: Moist forests, cove forests, rock outcrops, well-drained bottomland forests
Uncommon
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Wherry's Foamflower
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Tiarella wherryi FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
Habitat: Moist forests, cove forests, rock outcrops, well-drained bottomland forests
Uncommon in GA Mountains & GA Piedmont (rare in GA Coastal Plain)
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Brook-saxifrage, Eastern Boykinia, Allegheny Brookfoam, Aconite-saxifrage
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Boykinia aconitifolia FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Boykinia aconitifolia FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Boykinia aconitifolia 094-13-001 FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
Habitat: Streambanks, riverbanks, in crevices in spray cliffs around waterfalls, seepages
Uncommon in NC Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Michaux's Saxifrage, Cliff Saxifrage
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Micranthes petiolaris var. petiolaris FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Saxifraga michauxii FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Saxifraga michauxii 094-14-001 FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
Habitat: Rock outcrops, especially in seasonal seepage, at low to high elevations in the Southern and Central Appalachians
Common in Mountains, uncommon in Piedmont
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Escarpment Saxifrage, Shealy's Saxifrage
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Micranthes petiolaris var. shealyi FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Saxifraga michauxii FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Saxifraga michauxii 094-14-001? FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
Habitat: In moist seepage over rock, at low elevations (2000-3000 feet)
Rare (endemic to SC's Pickens County, so far as is known)
Native to South & possibly North Carolina
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Common Name: Swamp Saxifrage
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Micranthes pensylvanica FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Saxifraga pensylvanica FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Saxifraga pensylvanica 094-14-002 FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
Habitat: Forested seeps and seepage swamps, fens, usually over mafic or calcareous rocks
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Early Saxifrage
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Micranthes virginiensis FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
INCLUDING PLANTS National Database: Saxifraga virginiensis var. virginiensis FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Saxifraga virginiensis 094-14-003 FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
Habitat: Rock outcrops, moist alluvial and slope forests, streambanks, riverbanks
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Brook Lettuce, Mountain Lettuce, Branch Lettuce, Lettuceleaf Saxifrage
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Micranthes micranthidifolia FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Saxifraga micranthidifolia FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Saxifraga micranthidifolia 094-14-004 FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
Habitat: Wet soils of seepages, in the beds of high elevation brooks, brookbanks; rocky seepages
Common in NC Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Carey's Saxifrage
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Micranthes careyana FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Saxifraga careyana FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Saxifraga careyana 094-14-005 FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
Habitat: Moist rock outcrops and cliffs, rocks along seeps or brooks, often under overhangs, often in moist soil at the base of a vertical or overhanging rock outcrop
Uncommon in NC Mountains, rare elsewhere
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name: Carolina Saxifrage
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Micranthes caroliniana FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Saxifraga caroliniana FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Saxifraga caroliniana 094-14-006 FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
Habitat: Moist rock outcrops and cliffs, often under overhangs, often in moist soil at the base of a vertical or overhanging rock outcrop
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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