Wild Carolina: Other Flowering Plants

This section is for non-woody flowering plants that are not trees or grasses.
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Edisto Beach, SC (June 2018)
Prickly Pear (Opuntia)

Flowers in late spring; fruits are edible.
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Edisto Beach, SC (June 2018)
Yucca (Yucca)
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Columbia, SC (June 2018)
Pokeweed (Phytolacca americana)

Toxic to humans and many other mammals; food for mockingbirds, cardinals, thrashers, etc.
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Fairfield County, SC (August 2018)
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Fairfield County, SC (August 2018)
These tall (4'+) weeds were growing thick on a pine forest floor that was burned in the previous spring.
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Columbia, SC (August 2018)
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Columbia, SC (August 2018)
Virginia Creeper (?)
  • The leaf margins are largely un-toothed, which doesn't fit the description.
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Columbia, SC (August 2018)
to be identified; I think it was a vine, but I need to go back and check