OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

Your search found 2 taxa in the family Saururaceae, Lizard's-tail family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.

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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Lizard's-tail, Water-dragon

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Saururus cernuus   FAMILY: Saururaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Saururus cernuus   FAMILY: Saururaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Saururus cernuus 050-01-001   FAMILY: Saururaceae

 

Habitat: Swamps, overwash pools in stream floodplains, freshwater and oligohaline tidal marshes, semipermanently inundated rocky bars and shores, beaver ponds, ditches, usually where water ponds seasonally or periodically. In swamps of the Coastal Plain, Saururus often is dominant in large patches

Common (rare in Mountains)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Fishmint, Chameleon-plant, Fishleaf

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Houttuynia cordata   FAMILY: Saururaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Houttuynia cordata   FAMILY: Saururaceae

 

Habitat: Disturbed areas, moist suburban forests, ditches, spread from cultivation

Waif(s)

Non-native: east Asia

 


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"The following chronological synopsis of flora accounts of Microstegium is instructive: not treated by Small (1933), 'local' (Fernald 1950), 'rarely introduced and possibly not established' (Gleason & Cronquist 1952), 'sporadically naturalized' (Godfrey & Wooten 1979), 'a rapidly spreading pernicious invader on moist ground, too common' (Wofford 1989)... This species has become a very serious pest, now ranking as one of the most destructive introduced plants in our area, forming extensive and dense patches, sprawling over and eliminating nearly all other herbaceous plants. Eradication is very difficult, and considering its obvious colonizing abilities, only temporary." — Alan S. Weakley in Flora of the Southeastern US (2023)