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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.
Your search found 9 taxa in the family Lauraceae, Laurel family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Upland Redbay, Tisswood
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Tamala borbonia FAMILY: Lauraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Persea borbonia FAMILY: Lauraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Persea borbonia 084-01-001 FAMILY: Lauraceae
Habitat: Hammocks, dunes, maritime forests, in dry sandy soils on barrier islands
Rare north of FL, becoming rarer
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Swamp Redbay, Swamp Bay
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Tamala palustris FAMILY: Lauraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Persea palustris FAMILY: Lauraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Persea borbonia 084-01-001? FAMILY: Lauraceae
Habitat: Swamps, pocosins, bay forests, maritime forests, generally in wet peaty soils, but also in fairly dry, sandy soils in maritime forests
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Sassafras
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Sassafras albidum FAMILY: Lauraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sassafras albidum FAMILY: Lauraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sassafras albidum 084-02-001 FAMILY: Lauraceae
Habitat: A wide variety of forests, old fields, disturbed areas, fencerows
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name: Pondspice
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Litsea aestivalis FAMILY: Lauraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Litsea aestivalis FAMILY: Lauraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Litsea aestivalis 084-03-001 FAMILY: Lauraceae
Habitat: Margins of limesink ponds and Carolina bays, less commonly in wet depressions and wet stringers dominated by shrubs
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Northern Spicebush, Wild Allspice
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Lindera benzoin FAMILY: Lauraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Lindera benzoin FAMILY: Lauraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Lindera benzoin 084-04-001 FAMILY: Lauraceae
Habitat: Rich alluvial forests, mesic forests on slopes with circumneutral soils, bottomlands, swamps
Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Spicebush, Pondberry
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Lindera melissifolia FAMILY: Lauraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Lindera melissifolia FAMILY: Lauraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Lindera melissaefolium 084-04-002 FAMILY: Lauraceae
Habitat: Wet flats and depressions, generally with pocosin shrubs
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Bog Spicebush, Streamhead Spicebush
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Lindera subcoriacea FAMILY: Lauraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Lindera subcoriacea FAMILY: Lauraceae
Habitat: Peaty seepage bogs in headwaters of blackwater streams, in the sandhills and immediately adjacent Piedmont, with other pocosin shrubs
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Dodder Laurel, Devil's Gut, Love-vine
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Cassytha filiformis FAMILY: Lauraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cassytha filiformis FAMILY: Lauraceae
Habitat: Hammocks, pine flatwoods, longleaf pine sandhills, Florida scrub, coastal strands, disturbed areas
Native: south Florida
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Common Name:
Camphortree
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Camphora officinarum FAMILY: Lauraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cinnamomum camphora FAMILY: Lauraceae
Habitat: Disturbed areas, suburban woodlands, increasingly in natural forests
Common in GA Coastal Plain, uncommon in SC Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Non-native: east Asia
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