OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

Your search found 12 taxa in the family Araliaceae, Ginseng family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.

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camera icon speaker icon 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

 


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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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camera icon speaker icon 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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camera icon speaker icon 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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camera icon speaker icon 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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camera icon speaker icon 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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camera icon speaker icon 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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camera icon 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

 


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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

 


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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

 


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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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speaker icon 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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