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Family	Scientific Name	Common Name	Habitat	Distribution
Caryophyllaceae	Geocarpon carolinianum	Carolina Sandwort, Longroot	Deep white sands of barren longleaf pine sandhills, sand barrens, other dry sandy habitats, as in the NJ Pine Barrens.	NY (Long Island) and formerly RI, to Panhandle FL, on the Coastal Plain.
Caryophyllaceae	Geocarpon cumberlandensis	Cumberland Sandwort	Vertical sandstone outcrops in the Cumberland Plateau.	Endemic to the Cumberland Plateau of ne. TN (Fentress, Morgan, Pickett, and Scott counties) and se. KY (McCreary County).
Caryophyllaceae	Geocarpon glabrum	Appalachian Sandwort	Granitic flatrocks, other outcrops of granite, granitic gneiss, or other felsic gneisses and schists, in the mountains restricted to low or medium elevations.	ME and NH south to w. GA (Jones & Coile 1988) and AL, primarily on the Piedmont and also in the Cumberlands (Chester, Wofford, & Kral 1997).
Caryophyllaceae	Geocarpon groenlandicum	Mountain Sandwort, Greenland Sandwort	Low elevation rock outcrops (such as sandstone pavements in the VA Ridge and Valley) to high elevation rock outcrops in the Mountains (ascending to nearly 2000m on Roan Mountain), also disjunct on the summits of quartzite monadnocks in the upper Piedmont (such as Pilot Mountain, Surry County, NC and Hanging Rock, Stokes County, NC).	Greenland, NS, and QC south to the higher mountains of New England and NY; disjunct in the Southern Appalachians of VA, w. NC, and e. TN.
Caryophyllaceae	Geocarpon minimum	Geocarpon, Tiny-Tim	Sandstone glades, saline glades and slicks.	Sw. MO and ec. OK (Buthod & Miller 2023) south to n. LA and ne. TX.
Caryophyllaceae	Geocarpon nuttallii	Drummond's Sandwort	Sandy or sandy clay prairies and open woodlands.	AR and e. OK south to w. LA and e. TX.
Caryophyllaceae	Geocarpon uniflorum		Granitic flatrocks, outcrops of Altamaha grit.	S. NC south to c. GA, west to ec. AL, on the Piedmont and extending into the Coastal Plain of Georgia on Altamaha grit.

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Scientific Name

Common Name

Habitat

Distribution

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Caryophyllaceae

Geocarpon carolinianum

Carolina Sandwort, Longroot

Deep white sands of barren longleaf pine sandhills, sand barrens, other dry sandy habitats, as in the NJ Pine Barrens.

NY (Long Island) and formerly RI, to Panhandle FL, on the Coastal Plain.

Caryophyllaceae

Geocarpon cumberlandensis

Cumberland Sandwort

Vertical sandstone outcrops in the Cumberland Plateau.

Endemic to the Cumberland Plateau of ne. TN (Fentress, Morgan, Pickett, and Scott counties) and se. KY (McCreary County).

Caryophyllaceae

Geocarpon glabrum

Appalachian Sandwort

Granitic flatrocks, other outcrops of granite, granitic gneiss, or other felsic gneisses and schists, in the mountains restricted to low or medium elevations.

ME and NH south to w. GA (Jones & Coile 1988) and AL, primarily on the Piedmont and also in the Cumberlands (Chester, Wofford, & Kral 1997).

Caryophyllaceae

Geocarpon groenlandicum

Mountain Sandwort, Greenland Sandwort

Low elevation rock outcrops (such as sandstone pavements in the VA Ridge and Valley) to high elevation rock outcrops in the Mountains (ascending to nearly 2000m on Roan Mountain), also disjunct on the summits of quartzite monadnocks in the upper Piedmont (such as Pilot Mountain, Surry County, NC and Hanging Rock, Stokes County, NC).

Greenland, NS, and QC south to the higher mountains of New England and NY; disjunct in the Southern Appalachians of VA, w. NC, and e. TN.