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Your search found 12 taxa in the family Araliaceae, Ginseng family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
English Ivy, Common Ivy
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Hedera helix var. helix FAMILY: Araliaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Hedera helix FAMILY: Araliaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Hedera helix 139-01-001 FAMILY: Araliaceae
Habitat: Persistent, established, and spreading around old home sites, in suburban woodlands and waste areas
Common in NC Piedmont (uncommon elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Non-native: Europe
Common Name: Atlantic Ivy, Irish Ivy
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Hedera hibernica FAMILY: Araliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Hedera hibernica FAMILY: Araliaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Hedera helix 139-01-001? FAMILY: Araliaceae
Habitat: Persistent, established, and spreading around old home sites, in suburban woodlands and waste areas
Rare
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Dwarf Ginseng
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Nanopanax trifolius FAMILY: Araliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Panax trifolius FAMILY: Araliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Panax trifolium 139-02-001 FAMILY: Araliaceae
Habitat: Cove forests, bottomland forests, other nutrient-rich forests
Uncommon in Mountains, rare in Piedmont
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
American Ginseng, Sang
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Panax quinquefolius FAMILY: Araliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Panax quinquefolius FAMILY: Araliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Panax quinquefolium 139-02-002 FAMILY: Araliaceae
Habitat: Cove forests, mesic hardwood forests, generally in nutrient-rich forests though tending to avoid the richest coves
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Devil's Walkingstick, Hercules-club, Prickly Aralia, Prickly-ash
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Aralia spinosa FAMILY: Araliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Aralia spinosa FAMILY: Araliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Aralia spinosa 139-03-001 FAMILY: Araliaceae
Habitat: Disturbed pocosins and bottomlands, disturbed areas, moist to dry forests and woodlands
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Wild Sarsaparilla
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Aralia nudicaulis FAMILY: Araliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Aralia nudicaulis FAMILY: Araliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Aralia nudicaulis 139-03-002 FAMILY: Araliaceae
Habitat: Upland forests and woodlands, rocky places, most typically in rather dry places, such as ridgetop forests
Common in NC Mountains, uncommon in NC Piedmont (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Spikenard, Hungry-root
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Aralia racemosa FAMILY: Araliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Aralia racemosa ssp. racemosa FAMILY: Araliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Aralia racemosa 139-03-003 FAMILY: Araliaceae
Habitat: Rich woodlands, trail margins and roadsides
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Bristly Sarsaparilla
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Aralia hispida FAMILY: Araliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Aralia hispida FAMILY: Araliaceae
Habitat: Rocky woodlands, cliffs, and clearings, primarily over acidic rocks (such as quartzite, granite, and sandstone)
Rare
Native north of the Carolinas & perhaps in NC
Common Name: Japanese Angelica-tree
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Aralia elata FAMILY: Araliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Aralia elata FAMILY: Araliaceae
Habitat: Suburban woodlands
Rare
Non-native: Japan
Common Name: Japanese Aralia, Fatsia, paperplant
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Fatsia japonica FAMILY: Araliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Fatsia japonica FAMILY: Araliaceae
Habitat: Suburban woodlands
Waif(s)
Non-native: Japan
Common Name: Castor Aralia
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Kalopanax septemlobus FAMILY: Araliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Kalopanax septemlobus FAMILY: Araliaceae
Habitat: Disturbed, suburban areas
Non-native: east Asia
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Common Name:
Australian Umbrella Tree, Octopus Tree, Schefflera
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Heptapleurum actinophyllum FAMILY: Araliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Schefflera actinophylla FAMILY: Araliaceae
Habitat: In a wide variety of disturbed sites, invasive in hammocks, pine rocklands, pine flatwoods
Non-native: Australia, New Guinea, Java
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