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Family	Scientific Name	Common Name	Habitat	Distribution	Image
Araceae	Aglaonema
Araceae	Aglaonema commutatum	Chinese Evergreen, Golden Evergreen, Philippine Evergreen, Poison Dart Plant	Disturbed uplands.	Native of the Philippines.
Araceae	Alocasia
Araceae	Alocasia macrorrhizos	Giant Taro	Wet, disturbed areas, dumpsites.	Native of tropical Asia.
Araceae	Alocasia odora	Asian Taro	Wet disturbed areas.	Native of tropical Asia.
Araceae	Anthurium	Anthurium
Araceae	Anthurium schlechtendalii		Urban and suburban woodlands, from horticultural use.	Native of s. Mexico and Central America.
Araceae	Araceae	Arum Family
Araceae	Arisaema	Jack-in-the-pulpit, Indian-turnip
Araceae	Arisaema acuminatum	Florida Jack-in-the-pulpit	Mesic forests.	E. GA south to s. FL peninsula.
Araceae	Arisaema dracontium	Green Dragon	Bottomlands and floodplains, rarely in uplands over mafic or calcareous rocks or substrates.	S. QC, MI, and WI, south to n. peninsular FL and e. TX.
Araceae	Arisaema pusillum	Small Jack-in-the-pulpit, Swamp Jack	Swamps and moist forests.	CT, NY, and IN, south to GA, LA, and e. TX.
Araceae	Arisaema quinatum	Southern Jack-in-the-pulpit, Preacher John	Mesic forests, bottomlands.	Sc. NC, sw. NC, se. TN south to Panhandle FL and e. TX and s. AR, apparently extending north to WV and KY.
Araceae	Arisaema sikokianum	Japanese Cobra Lily	Suburban woodlands.	Native of Japan
Araceae	Arisaema species 1	Green Dragon	Bottomlands and floodplains over calcareous substrates.	Nc. peninsular FL and e. TX.
Araceae	Arisaema species 2	Common Jack-in-the-pulpit	Mesic forests, bottomlands.	NB west to se. MB, south to GA, LA, and e. TX (Wyatt & Stoneburner 2022).
Araceae	Arisaema stewardsonii	Bog Jack-in-the-pulpit	Bogs and peaty swamps.	NS west to MN, south to w. NC, e. TN, and n. IN (Treiber 1980).
Araceae	Arisaema triphyllum	Common Jack-in-the-pulpit	Mesic forests, bottomlands.	NB west to se. MB, south to Panhandle FL, LA, and e. TX (Treiber 1980).
Araceae	Arum	Arum
Araceae	Arum italicum ssp. italicum	Italian Arum, Lords-and-Ladies	Suburban woodlands, naturalizing from horticultural use.	Native of Europe and n. Africa. Reported for Fairfax County, VA (Steury 2010).
Araceae	Caladium	Caladium
Araceae	Caladium bicolor	Caladium
Araceae	Calla	Calla
Araceae	Calla palustris	Bog Arum, Wild Calla, Water Arum	Swamps, bogs, marshy lake-margins.	Circumpolar, ranging south in North America to sw. PA, w. MD, n. IL, c. MN, and BC.
Araceae	Colocasia	Elephant's-ear, Taro, Dasheen
Araceae	Colocasia esculenta	Elephant's-ear, Taro, Dasheen, Coco-Yam, Eddo	Ditches, shores, bottomland hardwood forests.	Native of the Tropics. Frequently planted for its "tropical" appearance, becoming naturalized, for instance at Lake Waccamaw, Columbus County, NC, where it grows scattered along much of the shoreline, spread by fragments of rhizome.
Araceae	Cryptocoryne	Cryptocoryne
Araceae	Cryptocoryne walkeri	Walker's Cryptocoryne, Walker's Water-trumpet	Aquatic.	Native of Sri Lanka.
Araceae	Dieffenbachia	Dumb-cane
Araceae	Dieffenbachia seguine	Dumb-Cane	Disturbed areas.	Native of tropical America.
Araceae	Dracunculus	Dragon Arum
Araceae	Dracunculus vulgaris	Dragon Arum	Persistent from horticultural use.	Native of Mediterranean Europe and w. Asia.
Araceae	Epipremnum
Araceae	Epipremnum pinnatum	Devil's Ivy, Golden Pothos, Centipede Tonga-vine, Dragontail Plant, Tibatib	Hammocks, forested wetlands, and disturbed areas, spreading aggressively from landscape dumping.	Native of tropical Asia.
Araceae	Landoltia	Duckmeat
Araceae	Landoltia punctata	Dotted Duckmeat	Still to slowly moving waters of ponds, lakes, beaver ponds, and swamps.	Native of the Southern Hemisphere. Widespread worldwide.
Araceae	Lasia	Lasia
Araceae	Lasia spinosa	Lasia	From horticultural use.	Native of tropical Asia.
Araceae	Lemna	Duckweed
Araceae	Lemna aequinoctialis	Lesser Duckweed	Still to slowly moving waters of ponds, lakes, beaver ponds, and swamps.	Widespread worldwide, except in n. North America and n. Eurasia.
Araceae	Lemna minor	Common Duckweed	Still to slowly moving waters of ponds, lakes, beaver ponds, and swamps.	Widespread in the Northern Hemisphere; scattered in the Southern Hemisphere, where perhaps in part introduced.
Araceae	Lemna minuta	Least Duckweed	Quiet waters, seepages.	Widespread in North America, Central America, and South America; more local in Europe and Japan.
Araceae	Lemna obscura	Little Duckweed	Still to slowly moving waters of ponds, lakes, beaver ponds, and swamps.	NY west to MN and NE, south to s. FL, TX, Mexico, and the Bahamas.
Araceae	Lemna perpusilla	Tiny Duckweed	Still to slowly moving waters of ponds, lakes, beaver ponds, and swamps.	QC west to MN, south to NC, TN, and TX.
Araceae	Lemna trisulca	Star Duckweed, Ivy-leaved Duckweed	Still to slowly moving waters of ponds, lakes, beaver ponds, and swamps, calcareous springs.	Widespread in the Northern Hemisphere; scattered in the Southern Hemisphere.
Araceae	Lemna turionifera	Turion Duckweed, Red Duckweed	Mesotrophic to eutrophic, quiet waters.	Circumboreal, in North America from NL (Newfoundland) west to AK, south to c. PA (Rhoads & Klein 1993; Rhoads & Block 2007), WV, KY, n. AL (FNA), TX, NM, AZ, and CA.
Araceae	Lemna valdiviana	Pale Duckweed	Still to slowly moving waters of ponds, lakes, beaver ponds, and swamps.	Widespread in North America, Central America, and South America.
Araceae	Monstera	Monstera, Cheese-plant
Araceae	Monstera deliciosa	Taro-vine, Swiss-cheese Plant, Cutleaf Philodendron	Disturbed hammocks, persisting and slightly spreading from cultivation.	Native of tropical America.
Araceae	Orontium	Golden Club
Araceae	Orontium aquaticum	Golden Club, Bog Torches, Never-wet	Generally in peaty and stagnant water (acidic to calcareous), such as beaver ponds, blackwater streams, swamps, pools in low pocosins, streambeds in the Piedmont, bogs and swamps in the mountains, tidal freshwater marshes.	MA and c. NY south to s. FL and west to LA and e. TX, north in the inland to w. NC, KY, and WV, primarily but by no means strictly Coastal Plain.
Araceae	Peltandra	Arrow-arum
Araceae	Peltandra sagittifolia	Spoonflower, White Arrow-arum	Pocosins of the outer Coastal Plain, sphagnous swamps. Peaty ecotones between bayheads and seepage slopes (Coleataenia abscissa/Magnolia virginiana bayhead ecotones in c. FL). Typically in wet, mucky, sphagnous, or otherwise deeply saturated soils often with some standing water.	A Southeastern Coastal Plain endemic: e. NC south to c. peninsular FL and west to se. LA.
Araceae	Peltandra virginica	Green Arrow-arum, Tuckahoe	Marshes, bogs, beaver ponds, pocosins, other stagnant, aquatic situations, freshwater to oligohaline tidal marshes.	ME, s. QC, and n. MI south to s. FL and e. TX; Cuba.
Araceae	Philodendron	Philodendron
Araceae	Philodendron hederaceum var. oxycardium	Heartleaf Philodendron, Vile-Vine	Disturbed pineland hammocks, disturbed suburban areas, from horticultural use.	Native of Mexico.
Araceae	Pinellia	Pinellia
Araceae	Pinellia pedatisecta	Fan-leaf Chinese Green Dragon	Suburban woodlands.	Native of China. Reported for Greenville County, SC (Bradley et al. [in prep.]).
Araceae	Pinellia ternata	Pinellia	Suburban woodlands, from horticultural use.	Native of Japan. Introduced from Japan and rarely naturalized, at least in the northern portion of our area and other nearby areas, as in DC, se. PA, NJ, and s. NY.
Araceae	Pinellia tripartita	Voodoo Lily, Green Dragon	Suburban woodlands, from horticultural use.	Native of Japan and Hong Kong. Reported for Greenville County, SC (Bradley et al. [in prep.]).
Araceae	Pistia	Water Lettuce
Araceae	Pistia stratiotes	Water Lettuce	Stagnant or slow-moving waters of rivers, sometimes cultivated in ponds, where it persists for a while (presumably eventually eliminated by cold winters in the more northern parts of our area).	Native in a wide area across the Paleotropics and Neotropics, including in North America at least peninsular FL; it has been sometimes considered an alien and noxious waterweed in FL but evidence strongly supports its nativity there (Evans 2013). Reported for AR (Serviss & Serviss 2023a). This floating aquatic appeared in the Waccamaw River of SC (downstream from NC) in 1990 and 1991, apparently successfully overwintering (Nelson 1993).
Araceae	Spirodela
Araceae	Spirodela polyrhiza	Greater Duckweed, Minnow-fole	Still to slowly moving waters of ponds, lakes, beaver ponds, and swamps.	Widespread worldwide.
Araceae	Symplocarpus	Skunk Cabbage
Araceae	Symplocarpus foetidus	Skunk Cabbage	Seepage-fed bogs and nonalluvial swamps.	NS and s. QC west to MN, south to n. NC, e. SC (discovered in 2024), ne. TN, s. OH, and IL.
Araceae	Syngonium	Arrowhead Vine
Araceae	Syngonium angustatum	Five-Fingers, Arrowhead Vine	Disturbed rockland hammocks, other disturbed areas, spread from horticultural use.	Native of Central America.
Araceae	Syngonium podophyllum var. podophyllum	American-evergreen	Disturbed hammocks, suburban woodlands, from horticultural use.	Native of Central America.
Araceae	Thaumatophyllum
Araceae	Thaumatophyllum bipinnatifidum		From horticultural use.	Native of se. and s. Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and possibly Bolivia.
Araceae	Wolffia	Watermeal, Mud-mary, Rootless-duckweed
Araceae	Wolffia borealis	Northern Watermeal	Still to slowly moving waters of ponds, lakes, beaver ponds, and swamps.	QC west to BC, south to PA, VA (?), KY, TN, MO, and CA. The occurrence in VA is uncertain.
Araceae	Wolffia brasiliensis	Brazilian Watermeal	Still to slowly moving waters of ponds, lakes, beaver ponds, and swamps.	Widespread in e. North America, Central America, and South America.
Araceae	Wolffia columbiana	Colombian Watermeal	Still to slowly moving waters of ponds, lakes, beaver ponds, and swamps.	Widespread in North America, Central America, and South America.
Araceae	Wolffia globosa	Asian Watermeal	Still to slowly moving waters of ponds, lakes, beaver ponds, and swamps.	Native of Asia.
Araceae	Wolffiella
Araceae	Wolffiella gladiata	Mud-midgets	Ponds, ditches, beaver-ponds millponds, tidal waters.	MA and n. IL (s. WI?) south to s. FL and TX; Mexico.
Araceae	Wolffiella lingulata		Ponds and sloughs.	Peninsular FL; w. LA to s. TX; CA; Mexico; West Indies; Central America, South America.
Araceae	Wolffiella oblonga		Quiet waters.	N. peninsular FL, MS (?), LA, TX, south to Mexico, Central America, South America; West Indies.
Araceae	Xanthosoma	Elephant-ear
Araceae	Xanthosoma sagittifolium	Arrowleaf Elephant-ear	Ditches.	Native of tropical America.