OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

Your search found 10 taxa in the family Rhamnaceae, Buckthorn family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.

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camera icon Common Name: Carolina Supplejack, American Rattan, Rattan-vine, Alabama Supplejack

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Berchemia scandens   FAMILY: Rhamnaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Berchemia scandens   FAMILY: Rhamnaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Berchemia scandens 119-01-001   FAMILY: Rhamnaceae

 

Habitat: Swamp forests, bottomlands, streambanks, also upland in mesic to even xeric forests, woodlands, glades, and prairies over calcareous rock or sediment

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

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Common New Jersey Tea, Redroot, Northeastern Ceanothus

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Ceanothus americanus var. americanus   FAMILY: Rhamnaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Ceanothus americanus   FAMILY: Rhamnaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Ceanothus americanus 119-02-001   FAMILY: Rhamnaceae

 

Habitat: Woodland borders, dry woodlands, glady openings, dry ridge forests and woodlands (pine or oak) in the Mountains

Common in Mountains & Piedmont (uncommon in NC Coastal Plain, rare in Coastal Plain of GA & SC)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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Common Name: Southeastern New Jersey Tea, Southeastern Ceanothus

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Ceanothus americanus var. intermedius   FAMILY: Rhamnaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Ceanothus americanus   FAMILY: Rhamnaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Ceanothus americanus 119-02-001?   FAMILY: Rhamnaceae

 

Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, dry sandy woodlands and forests, rocky openings around granitic or quartzitic rocks in the Piedmont

Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)

 


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Common Name: Prairie Redroot, Prairie Ceanothus

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Ceanothus herbaceus   FAMILY: Rhamnaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Ceanothus herbaceus   FAMILY: Rhamnaceae

 

Habitat: Prairies, glades, upland woodlands, eastwards in flood-scoured rocky and/or sandy riverbanks

Native: primarily midwestern US, disjunct eastward

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Carolina Buckthorn, Polecat-tree, Indian Currant, Indian-cherry

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Frangula caroliniana   FAMILY: Rhamnaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Frangula caroliniana   FAMILY: Rhamnaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Rhamnus caroliniana 119-04-001   FAMILY: Rhamnaceae

 

Habitat: Dry to moist barrens, woodlands, and forests, Coastal Plain limestone bluffs and shell middens, especially over mafic or calcareous rocks

Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain) (rare in NC Mountains)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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speaker icon Common Name: Glossy Buckthorn, European Alder-buckthorn

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Frangula alnus   FAMILY: Rhamnaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Frangula alnus   FAMILY: Rhamnaceae

 

Habitat: Forested areas, other disturbed areas

Rare

Non-native: Europe

 


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Common Name: Common Buckthorn, European Buckthorn

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Rhamnus cathartica   FAMILY: Rhamnaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Rhamnus cathartica   FAMILY: Rhamnaceae

 

Habitat: Disturbed areas

Rare

Non-native: Eurasia

 


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Common Name: Dahurian Buckthorn, Davurian Buckthorn

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Rhamnus davurica   FAMILY: Rhamnaceae

INCLUDING PLANTS National Database: Rhamnus davurica ssp. davurica   FAMILY: Rhamnaceae

 

Habitat: Suburban woodlands, fields, floodplains, rarely naturalized but potentially very invasive

Rare

Non-native: east Asia (northern China)

 


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speaker icon Common Name: Shell-mound Buckthorn, Small-flowered Buckthorn, Smallflower Mock-buckthorn

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Sageretia minutiflora   FAMILY: Rhamnaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sageretia minutiflora   FAMILY: Rhamnaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sageretia minutiflora 119-05-001   FAMILY: Rhamnaceae

 

Habitat: Shell middens and shell hammocks, dry calcareous hammocks and maritime forests

Rare

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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Common Name: Chinese Jujube, Common Jujube, Chinese Date

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Ziziphus jujuba   FAMILY: Rhamnaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Ziziphus zizyphus   FAMILY: Rhamnaceae

 

Habitat: Disturbed areas

Rare

Non-native: Eurasia

 


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"If the word 'officinalis' is included [in the Latin name], you can be sure that the herb was used at one time as a medicinal. Officinalis... means 'of a storeroom,' and indicates that the plant held enough importance to be kept for use should the need arise." — Dorie Byers, Herbal Remedy Gardens